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

Bryan Alexander

Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. Another example: phones are much more important than tablets for less affluent students, but CIOs see them as equally significant. We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). Connectivity raises cost issues, too.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” “New Facebook features intended for developers could, if expanded, turn the social networking site into an online learning platform,” Inside Higher Ed reported in June.

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The 2013 Reform Symposium This Week - Online, Free, and with Amazing Speakers and Presenters

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Shedding light on Multimodality - Lucia Bodeman 6:00pm KEYNOTE: Rafael Parente 7:00pm iAuthor a Global iBook on the iPad by Meg Wilson Around the World in Nearly 80 Days - Sonya Van Schaijik Direct Your Own Learning - Edna Sackson Mentoring is not just for novices - Tamas Lorincz Picture Perfect Apps - Tia Simmons 8:00pm Attending to Student Narratives: (..)

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market.

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