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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. We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). The LMS market is mature, although the tools are immature. The LMS market is mature, although the tools are immature. What next for the LMS?

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Using Transactional Distance Theory to inform instructional design

IT Bill

For the past several years, online learning in higher education has focused on delivering a highly structured learning environment. Kozlow et al (2015) suggests that in order for autonomous learners to be successful they must possess self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies. References: A. Kozlow & A.

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

Bryan Alexander

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Online learning is on the rise.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Educational technology trends. post-2001) web.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning? Education always has been more than information dissemination or publishing, but now we have the tools, at low costs and globally available to make participatory learning possible. What are your views on MOOCs? Land and S.

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From EDUPUNK to ds106. 10Q: Jim Groom

Learning with 'e's

It''s a reference to a film club some friends and I imagined wherein we would watch Mario Bava films on Tuesday nights. 3) You''ve been referred to as the ''posterboy'' of Edupunk. Don''t get me wrong, it wasn''t like MOOCs or anything, but it was a pretty strong response from a simple blog post.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.