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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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A trend to watch: teaching classes from one campus to another

Bryan Alexander

The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. It’s been slow to develop – I co-taught classes like this in 1999 and 2001 – but some new projects look promising. It’s a form of inter-institutional collaboration.

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Thursday - Ray McNulty on the Courage to Change Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Given that some of these traits lie at the heart of criticisms I''m inclined to make about the non-connectivist MOOC movement and many of the VC-funded ed tech ventures, I can''t wait to discuss this with Ray! From 2001-03, he served as Vermont''s education commissioner. psid=2012-12-06.1621.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true.

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Many New Ideas are Quite Old

Mistakengoal.com

Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation. ” That quote comes from a 2001 Chronicle of Higher Education article but the thought has been expressed by many people. Of course, the broad threads of these worries are quite old.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs v1.1

Mistakengoal.com

Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. On the same note, it’s also worth revisiting Marc Prensky’s original 2001 Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants article as that discourse is still prevalent today.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs

Mistakengoal.com

Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. On the same note, it’s also worth revisiting Marc Prensky’s original 2001 Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants article as that discourse is still prevalent today. Student Affairs'