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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

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OER and open books. Digital badges. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. Finally, sanity prevailed when the MOOC elite discovered that simply putting videos of lectures online didn’t really advance learning for anyone.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via NPR : “ Texas High Schools To Require Police Interaction Education Video.” SNHU and LRNG are merging “to Create ‘ WeWork for Education ’ Via Digital Badges and Mini-Campuses.” Video streaming site Cheddar has acquired Rate My Professors. They Kept Children in Them Anyway.”