Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 12, 2015

With technology changing so rapidly, how can libraries, organizations, and individuals stay abreast of the economic, social, and ethical ramifications of innovations and prepare successfully for the future? The free half-day seminar is open to the public and will take place online via Blackboard Collaborate on April 30, 2015, from 12 p.m.

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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. There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. ITEM: Over the past several years a group of small colleges, members of the Council of Independent Colleges ( CIC ), experimented with sharing upper-level humanities seminars with each other. Here are some examples.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

Every time we interact with them, we learn something new. It is time to focus on both skill-based learning and lifelong learning. Additionally, Bloom’s taxonomy can be used to create learning objectives aligned with the course’s outcomes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

It’s part of a continued evolution of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. and presents a menu of options including “advance my career,” “start a new career,” or “learn for fun.” So the learning needs are much, much broader and deep.”. But the company recently added a feature that asks users: “What’s your main goal?”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

“But adaptive-learning technologies are bullsh*t, c’mon,” one of us would say. I see your perspective, but think about it this way,” another might respond, “Your dystopian visions of tech mean less when you think about the millions of students who aren’t learning now. If you’re an interested student, you can learn more and.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

TEN YEARS OF EDUCATION RESEARCH has shown we are failing to use technology effectively with underserved students, who are mostly subjected to “drill-and-practice or remediation” activities, writes Molly B. Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Personalized learning. Blended learning.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Or at least CZI is trying to convince schools to buy into its Summit learning management system. ” Via Chalkbeat : “ Maine went all in on ‘ proficiency-based learning ’ – then rolled it back.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 8, 2015

My own particular research interest at the time was to use audio and video conferencing technology (videoconferencing was very new at the time) as a means of connecting together our remote study centres so that all students could access the same content and hear the same visiting lecturers without missing out on the experience.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 31, 2015

My research into learning technology has attracted many invitations to speak at universities in far flung places. I learn a lot and I''m excited to discover new approaches and practices in education. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. My first thought was that it must be some kind of a joke. The subject?

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Trump University promised that the instructors for the real-estate and business seminars were “hand-picked” by Trump. Funnily enough, many of the very publications who consistently made fun of the offerings from Trump University rarely offer any critical analysis of the structure or content of MOOCs or coding bootcamps.

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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! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. I’m using this anniversary to reflect on my experiences in educational technology over the last 20 years. Well a lot of people have done many good things. What did we get wrong? I was wrong. I was wrong. They’ll produce stuff.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. I’m using this anniversary to reflect on my experiences in educational technology over the last 20 years. Well a lot of people have done many good things. What did we get wrong? I was wrong. I was wrong. They’ll produce stuff.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Oh VR promises.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. This practice is not necessarily radical,not disruptive, but should be part of the fabric of how we teach and learn now. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc).

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. This practice is not necessarily radical,not disruptive, but should be part of the fabric of how we teach and learn now. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc).

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

When it came to technology, a tripartite division had opened up. Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs. Having presented these four possible responses, I concluded with a quick recommendation about technology usage.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. The slides are also available here. The quotation is from 2012.

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