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#EDEN15 BCN

Learning with 'e's

Now in its 24th year, the event grows from strength to strength, with two annual events every year, an individual membership of over 1200 worldwide practitioners in all sectors of education and training, and a well-oiled mechanism in support.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Dave’s keynotes in the last couple of years have centred around how coming to know is a messy, imprecise process at once intensely individual and necessarily embedded in a community - Rhizomatic Learning. For me MOOCs are an ideal way for organizing expert knowledge exchange, community strengthening and train-the-trainer options.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Things will be different in k12 and corporate training. Do you know how hard it is to find a good learning designer? Look to corporate training and private online higher education providers/suppliers to be the ones looking for learning designers in 2014. The focus is on tertiary education. The MOOC backlash.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Things will be different in k12 and corporate training. Do you know how hard it is to find a good learning designer? Look to corporate training and private online higher education providers/suppliers to be the ones looking for learning designers in 2014. The focus is on tertiary education. The MOOC backlash.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009.

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Learning to learn data science, part 1: Beginner’s mind

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

in mathematics and 25 years' experience as a professor, including some background in Python, when I decided to get serious about learning R and data science (and learning analytics in particular) and attended the LASER Institute at NC State this year, I was starting from zero. Although I have a Ph.D.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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