Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Silence From the Secretary , Despite Major Rules Changes.” ” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. .” ” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Here’s an outline of topics that came up, partly from my FTTE observations, partly from participants: Education and its contexts : I mentioned recent trends about state funding to public higher ed (increasing!), Technology topics included social media, video, 3d printing, VR, internet of things, automation, and privacy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

There were a lot of big questions and a lot of big ideas at #DLNchat on Tuesday, March 27 when special guest Bryan Fendley, Director of Academic Computing at University of Arkansas, Monticello, guided our discussion: How Could Artificial Intelligence Shape the Future of Higher Education? Now that's an idea. DLNChat I would say often.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

This is such a strange and necessary time to talk about education technology, to take a class about education technology, to get a degree in education technology because what, in the past, was so often framed as optional or aspirational is now compulsory — and compulsory under some of the worst possible circumstances.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

During my time as a public school employee, I’d occasionally hear about educational organizations that were working to support schools in some capacity. When I got connected on social media, my lens was expanded and I became aware additional organizations, as well as their supporting tools and resources.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Education in the Courts. Her remarks.) .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Reading Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz has been fascinating. Her key message is simple - that education needs to change to make it more accessible to those who want to, but cannot afford to enter into full time higher education. and she does earn her living as a writer).

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In the wider educational sense, autonomy has connotations of choice, including decisions about what one learns, where one learns it, and at what pace it is learnt. For too long, state funded educational systems have been removing this autonomy. Now that is all about to change. Unported License.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 20, 2015

There were posts about the Anatomy of PLEs , their functionality , their role as a counterpoint to the institutional Learning Management System, and also their relationship to MOOCs and Connectivism. How can the concept be applied to wider issues in education? What is your experience of using PLEs in your own learning?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to register now to participate in this event. Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Please also join this Library 2.0

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Most educators have already heard about this teen who made the “Sit With Us App”, to help students find people to sit with at lunch. The number of times I have seen it shared on social media, or brought up in conferences has been staggering. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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Technology MOOC Social Media Mobility 28

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 10, 2012

Many would agree that Shelly Sanchez Terrell is at the top of the game when it comes to educational innovation. Just look at her profile: She is a teacher trainer, author, and international speaker, is the host of American TESOL’s Free Friday Webinars and the Social Media Community Manager for The Consultants-E.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

He is nicknamed the 'Reverend' (oh the irony), and is a purveyor of American pop culture, experimental educational technology and out-of-left-field philosophy. Spontaneous network connections, incorporating social media into physical spaces, the use of digital repositories such as Wikipedia, all seemed radical several years ago.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

Professor Terry Anderson , who is based at Athabasca University in Canada, is one of the famous figures of contemporary education, and his list of achievements is lengthy. When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning? Terry: I was first attracted to distance education as a student.

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E-rate Conference Social Media Study 73

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. Use every bit of social media that you can.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

In a formal sense, distance learning has been a familiar concept since at least 1837, when Sir Isaac Pitman began teaching his shorthand system using typed instruction cards mailed through the universal Penny Postal service to his students across England. Some would say formal distance education was established much earlier in the Americas.

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Learning Technology Support Course MOOC 57

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

If you are unsure what makerspaces are, think of them as creative locations for tinkering, collaborating, problem solving, and creating in a library or educational space. We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to provide input and participate this event. This is a free event, being held online.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.” That this is how a venture capitalist would characterize the future of education is, nonetheless, quite notable. “Why is there a slide about Peloton? Is this really a trend?

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

So I started asking around, bugging individuals and querying social media. A little background: the person asking me this is not affiliated with an educational institution at the moment, so they can’t relay on campus resources, nor use a.edu email address. The results fascinated me. Any others to add to the list?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

It shows no signs of stopping as learners become more involved in their own education. Learners are now demanding that they are educated in a way that works for them. The corporate learning environment has been experiencing a great deal of development over recent years.

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Training Trends MOOC Learning 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! Expanding Options in the Digital Age - Professor Lesley Farmer 9:00pm All Systems Go!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Don Buckley - Co-Founder, Tools at Schools - "Is it Possible to Innovate in Education?" This is a great opportunity to share your work or ideas!

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

I’ve listed some examples of disruption in education below, and ranked them (though obviously the ranking is entirely subjective and only useful as a crude reference point to start your own thinking). Common Core standards (this one’s not sexy, but few factors impact education more than this index of academic content).

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Wired Campus

MARCH 13, 2015

The event brings together a mix of participants from different parts of education — teachers, administrators, and publishers in elementary, secondary, and higher education. Big data is coming to education, if it’s not here already. But the rules and norms for handling digital information generated by students are far from clear.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Among the education highlights: Republican VP candidate Mike Pence made up a name for the university hosting the event. Actually, I think that was the only education highlight. Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.”

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. This is about the stories we’re told about education, about technology, and about education technology. (No

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Via the Department of Education ’s press office : “Prepared Remarks by U.S.

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Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. Social Media Video : Students watch an online video and identify its strengths and weaknesses. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Education Politics. Via Education Week : “ Maine Gov. Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Udacity got a new CEO.

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Technology Pearson Education MOOC 67

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There was a Presidential Debate this week, but – no surprise and perhaps even a bit of a relief – education wasn’t much of an issue. ” Education Politics. ” Education in the Courts. .” ” Education in the Courts. ” Maybe or maybe not education-related.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

(National) Education Politics. And congrats on being first off the blocks to f**k up education in 2018! Well… Ask any of your British education colleagues. ” Via The Washington Post : “ Elizabeth Warren wants the Education Dept.’s ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Board of Education and it barely registered as a story. ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Education Politics. “ Education Department Proposes New Regulations to Protect Students and Taxpayers from Predatory Institutions.” ” Via The Fresno Bee : “Former Clovis Unified School District superintendent and popular Fresno-area education consultant Terry Bradley was censured and fined by the U.S. .

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Via The Atlantic : “The GOP ’s Public-Education Dilemma.”

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