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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

He references the plight of adjuncts, including Doonesbury’s take. I asked if the mobile world offers a partial way to address inequality of access, since we know poorer Americans, plus blacks and hispanics, tend to use mobile devices more often and for more purposes than wealthy and white people. What next for the LMS?

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A Devil’s Dictionary of Educational Technology

Bryan Alexander

Also referred to as “teaching”, “learning”, and “the real world” Blogging , v. Can be neatly buried by the LMS. Also known as “development” LMS, n. Mobile , n. MOOC , n. The practice of combining digital and analog teaching. Competency-based education (CBE) , n.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Mobile : as humanity continues to migrate ever-increasing swathes of life into handhelds, educators slowly follow suit. The LMS A few themes: first, LMSes trying to resemble the modern (i.e.,

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. Uber for Education". “We

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

Bryan Alexander

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). But participants were very, very engaged from the start. Online learning is on the rise.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the HR section below. Perhaps this should go under the “surveillance” section below, but as the article references gunshot-detection systems, I’m putting it here. ” Contests and Awards.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Make it rain” here is a reference to an analytics app. I guess it could also be a reference to the money to be made off of collecting, analyzing, and selling student data. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” (Psst.