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

Bryan Alexander

On February 25th Casey Green and I met online for the third Future Trends Forum. We explored campus technology and faculty attitudes towards digital materials. We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). LMSes will remain central to campus technology in my time frame.

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Towards the future of the LMS: to Moodle and beyond

Bryan Alexander

Ah, the learning management system ( LMS ) ( VLE to some people). One of the central ed technologies, as well as one of the most controversial, and yet also accepted as a nearly universal commonplace. Two weeks ago we had LMS guru Phil Hill as a guest on the Future Trends Forum, exploring current trends in depth.

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Why 'A Domain of One's Own' Matters (For the Future of Knowledge)

Hack Education

I am best known, no doubt, for my criticism of education technology. Often when I say that I think that the “Domain of One’s Own” initiative is one of the most important education technologies, I always hear pushback from the Twitter riffraff. The technologies were not, at the outset, proprietary.

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Towards the future of the LMS: to Moodle and beyond

Bryan Alexander

Ah, the learning management system ( LMS ) ( VLE to some people). One of the central ed technologies, as well as one of the most controversial, and yet also accepted as a nearly universal commonplace. Two weeks ago we had LMS guru Phil Hill as a guest on the Future Trends Forum, exploring current trends in depth.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. And that's surveillance.

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Transforming Education with Virtual Labs and Immersive Learning

Kitaboo on EdTech

With educational technology going through a paradigm shift of worldwide acceptance, both leadership and academia in the education sector are moving towards incorporating virtual lab options with real-time guidance and feedback. High-Quality Equipment.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” ’” “She didn’t say anything positive about technology, dammit.”

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