Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. That should extend into 2016.

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Question : Are we taking brand new disruptive technologies and trying to force them into old models? The emerging model in business today is BYO3 - Bring Your Own Laptop/Tablet/Phone We are coming to a price point where schools can provide small tablets and allow students to bring their own devices for learning as well.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Their school is committed to organization-wide change to effectively infuse technology into the curriculum and they are truly forward-thinking in their approach; the school has already implemented many innovative teaching practices and spaces. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. Math Rotation Model.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. And that's surveillance.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

From Khan Academy to massive open online courses (better known as MOOCs), digital instructional content is often delivered as videos. In their study, 104 Australian male and female students in both STEM and non-STEM fields had to remember the type, color and position of 12 abstract symbols placed on rectangular frame on a laptop monitor.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

It can be actuated via a smartphone or iPad, laptop or in-person, but access is constant–which in turn shifts a unique burden to learn on the shoulders of the student." Gathering ''big data'' from learning analytics is perhaps the motherlode for most large scale course providers such as EdX , Udacity and Coursera (MOOC platforms).

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Technology plays a prominent role in the modern classroom. Students use laptops, tablets, and myriad software to complete in-class work and at-home assignments. In a survey of 1,000 long-time high school teachers, 73% say their classrooms use laptops and tablets daily. How to learn more about edtech options.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Me, I write about education technology for a living. And I do so because I want us — all of us — to flourish; and too often both education and technology are deeply complicit in exploitation and destruction instead. Technology offers itself as the solution. Not everywhere looks like Brandeis. I'm an ed-tech critic.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

I’m also working on a magazine article that’ll come out this fall on education technology and venture capital. Stories about the future of education – particularly a future that is a more market-oriented, technological endeavor – are ubiquitous. They are relayed by influential storytellers.

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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. In library they are using stop motion technology to develop stories.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

EdSurge is all about exploring one fundamental question: How can learning be supported by technology? And the role that technology is playing in supporting learning for these students is growing. Colleges and universities have been scrutinizing technology, for reasons both similar and dissimilar to K-12 educators, for decades.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here is something I wrote in “ The Innovator’s Mindset ” that is an easy way to support our teachers in their work: I often took my laptop and would sit in a classroom for anywhere from three to six hours. If you’re thinking you don’t have the time, remember that your technology is mobile.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

As campuses locked their gates out of fear of infection, most American college students rushed to their laptops to study from home. Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S. Elsewhere, not everyone was as fortunate. During the global crisis, 1.6

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. by Terry Heick and TeachThought Staff.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

Much of the current rhetoric about technology and education relates to devices and software programs—what types schools should purchase, how much money districts should spend on them, how they should be integrated into classroom learning, and what return on investment they should produce.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2011

The Caribbean Educators Network (CEN) will be hosting a FREE Online Educators Conference (e-conference) from August 8-13th under the theme ''Open For Learning: Using Technology To Move Forward''. The theme captures the notion of openness through the use of technology as a way of advancing learning and professional development.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

After all, with the way technology has become interwoven into our daily lives, it only makes sense that our educational structure adapts to this shift to leverage the power of technology in the classroom. Children may not have access to technology. Well, you’re not alone. Teachers may have to create additional resources.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Being an educational technology trainer and an educator for more than a decade, I have had a fair share of training and professional development sessions both on giving and receiving end. For example , a few years back “Integrating Technology” into the curriculum was the focus for my school.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 29, 2017

I actually presented three times, each session offering a different cut of my thoughts on the future of education and technology. New technologies drew some attention. “Older” technologies were much in the air. A Maltese education leader dove into their secondary school laptop initiative.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The changing market also sets the stage for the emergence of new types of technology solutions and partnerships. Smaller, Faster, Cheaper Prior to the pandemic, learning in the workplace was already growing to include more technology-enabled “ microlearning ” that was less formal and less structured than traditional training programs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

In 2017, reality took a massive swipe at the wobbly optimism of technology progressives. Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. Equitable: An analysis by John Hansen and Justin Reich of U.S.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

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 ? Now it’s giving away flash drives for positive online reviews. Education in the Courts. Raise $146.1

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Students may tend to think that composing an essay or conducting research is easier done on a laptop, for instance.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” 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. National) Education Politics. million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. National) Education Politics. ” Don’t worry.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” ” More on MOOC (and related) research in the research section below. ” Meanwhile on Campus.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. “ Uber-U is Already Here ” – “powered by Blockchain Technology.” But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM : Conversion of for-profits and MOOCs.”

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

Also via Chalkbeat : “Black and white students score far apart on a new test of technology skills.” ” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. VR “comes of age,” says Campus Technology. School district boasts it’s giving laptops to migrant students.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2017

“As lawsuits mount over access to learning technologies for people with disabilities , universities consider banding together to share accessibility reviews of vendor products,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Education in the Courts. “Huh?”

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Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. From The Express Tribune in Pakistan : “Around 500,000 laptops are likely to be distributed among talented and deserving students by the year 2020, according to Prime Minister Youth Programme Chairwoman Leila Khan.” ” Testing.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “The University of California, Los Angeles , is planning a major expansion in the online certificate and graduate degree markets that it hopes will reach as many as 15,000 students by early next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .” ” Oh look.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Here’s a link to all the stories in Slate’s series on online credit recovery programs. “After the Hype, Do MOOC Ventures Like edX Still Matter?” The coding bootcamp Andela is expanding into Uganda , Techcrunch reports.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me. ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below. Articles about laptop bans – for or against – are not quite the worst. More on the politics of higher education in the national politics section above.

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