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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. ASU GSV’s main stage is a near perfect embodiment of the Gartner Hype Cycle : To be clear, our version of the Hype Cycle doesn’t mean we think Web3, the Metaverse, AI, or VR/AR are necessarily bad investment areas. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. million in 2019 to 18.6 million students in 2021, a 5.1

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?Why an iTunes Model for Online Learning Is Bad for Educators

Edsurge

The online learning industry has driven itself into a corner that is tricky to get out of, and much of that stems from initially offering the majority of digital content for free. Today, few higher-ed institutions are able to sustain the ongoing costs associated with producing and running MOOCs.

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The Learning Revolution - 2014 School Leadership Summit - ISTE Unplugged Dates - More!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We are excited to announce that the keynote sessions from the following conferences can now be watched on YouTube: School Leadership Summit 2013 , Homeschool Conference 2013 , STEMxCon 2013 , Library 2.012 and 2.013 , and the Global Education Conference 2012 and 2013. Visit each of the conference sites to see all of the session recordings.

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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. In fact, open MOOCs can work for any population, esp. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics.

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Lessons from Boise: What colleges can teach us about fostering innovation

Perry Hewitt

A critical part of this learning stems from transparency : organizations used to sweeping failed projects under the rug are now sharing them via processes like blameless post-mortems to capture lessons and encourage experimentation. Done right, a labs environment can provide a pathway to a new kind of learning.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. In a 2012 experiment, for instance, teams of IT graduates participated in a timed competition where they solved as many “trouble tickets” — as user complaints are called in tech support — as possible in a set amount of time.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012. STEM Education’s “Sputnik Moment” The Higher Education Bubble. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). The Compulsion for Data.