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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.). Discussion connected my theme with Stephen’s via arguments about sustainability.

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Forgetting Our History: From the Reusability Paradox to the Remix Hypothesis

Iterating Toward Openness

No one wants to trade efficacy for reusability (or for lower cost, or for anything else – as the recent Babson survey showed , faculty want proven efficacy more than anything else). They lack what Giant Robot Dinosaur calls a Minimum Viable Personality. And yet we do this all the time without really realizing it.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via NPR : “Hi, Robot : Adults, Children And The Uncanny Valley.” ” “A robot called Bina48 has successfully taken a course in the philosophy of love at Notre Dame de Namur University , in California,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.” ” Poll results from “The Gallup 2017 Survey of K–12 School District Superintendents.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think.” million project to use open educational resources (OER) to create degree programs at 38 community colleges. Where’s the outrage?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For more news about robots not taking jobs, see the HR section above. Well, not quite.

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