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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

There is a deep and vested interest in maintaining the course as the definitive container for learning. This is increasingly untenable in an age when you can learn many things in many different ways. Canvas and Moodle will continue to make inroads. I’m working on a platform for self-learners and here’s why.

MOOC 89
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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

There is a deep and vested interest in maintaining the course as the definitive container for learning. This is increasingly untenable in an age when you can learn many things in many different ways. Canvas and Moodle will continue to make inroads. I’m working on a platform for self-learners and here’s why.

MOOC 32