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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. The Chromebooks are not fully-functioning laptops.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology. A description of a learning environment where there is one “screen” for each student (whether an iPad, laptop, etc.). Activity-Based Learning. Individualized Learning. Informal Learning. Mobile Learning. ” (9).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

million laptops to all public primary schools. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? It includes all the buzzwords : competency-based education, personalized learning, and even blockchain!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Pi-top , the maker of a Raspberry Pi-compatible laptop, has raised $16 million from Hambro Perks and Committed Capital. Via The Washington Post : “Former executives of defunct for-profit college firm ITT settle fraud charges with SEC.” million total.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.).