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Further reflections on EDUCAUSE 2015

Bryan Alexander

I already shared materials and thoughts from my various presentations and events. Many quiet signs of OER. More talk of gamification, not so much about games. 1/2 #EDU15” It was very much a CIO event, not so much a teaching and learning conference. Last week was the major EDUCAUSE annual conference. Who was there?

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Digital learning futures

Learning with 'e's

I was pleasantly surprised by the huge turnout to hear me speak, and grateful to Don Taylor and his team for inviting me to speak at this excellent event. My audience has been extended beyond the walls of the event to a global classroom through the amazing power of social media. Here's to all the possible futures of learning!

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Several participants pointed out limitations on faculty time which block creation and even adoption of OER. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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Highlights From a Year of Tracking Future Trends in Education

Edsurge

I was also surprised to see so little development in gaming and gamification within education this past year. Lastly, I forecast continued incremental growth of open educational resources (OER) and open access in scholarly publication. Resistance to deportation enforcement could galvanize or divide campuses.

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Looking backward and forward

Kathy Schrock

I also began to look at the large database of information I was collecting in the game– the number of each Pokemon I captured, the points I received, the “power rating” of each Pokemon I had collected, and the actual time and date each event happened. But these are just my opinions.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

and world history events. Plague Doctor. Women’s Rights. Apartheid in South Africa. The Reading Like a Historian curriculum also engages students in historical inquiry around both U.S. Like the DBQs, lessons revolve around a central historical question and sets of prima ry documents to engage learners with varied reading skills.

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The 2013 Reform Symposium This Week - Online, Free, and with Amazing Speakers and Presenters

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

It''s an online global event highlighting “wow” moments in teaching and learning , and the entire conference will be held online using the Blackboard Collaborate webinar platform, running out of my FutureofEducation.com community. .