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These were my remarks as a guest speaker in Donna Murdoch's class “Online Teaching and Learning – Applying Adult Learning Principles” this evening. I was asked to speak about learninganalytics, but like I said in my keynote last week at NMC , ed-tech is boring. So this is a talk about pedometers.
Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.
That didn’t stop Bryan Short, who was a student at the University of British Columbia in 2016 when he got curious to know what information the learning management system at his university had collected on him and how it was being used. That makes it hard for students, professors or even journalists to get a glimpse inside.
How might a sociology class analyze human interactions and behaviors on socialmedia?). University IT departments are still feeling the effects of budget cuts from the recession, according to the 2016 Campus Computing Survey. 1 priority for 2016? WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNINGANALYTICS?
What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. That should extend into 2016. The forthcoming Horizon Report thinks BYOD is one of the two major tech trends for 2016.
As part of the course, students are engaging in a “Great Ed-Tech Debate,” arguing one side or another of a variety of topics: that technology enhances learning, that technology is a force for equity, that socialmedia is ruining childhood, and so on. Ed-tech in 2016 is different than ed-tech in 1916.
Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of socialmedia; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.”
Stories From Previous Years: Here are some of the stories that got us to where we are today: The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2016. SocialMedia, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Learning to Code. Education Data and LearningAnalytics. SocialMedia: Adoption and Crackdown. Wishful Thinking.
This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. SocialMedia, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Learning to Code. Education Data and LearningAnalytics.
Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Obama administration’s Education Department failed to consider key evidence when it reviewed and ultimately terminated its recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools in 2016, a federal judge ruled late Friday.” Perhaps because it was written by Salesforce.
was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on socialmedia.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on socialmedia or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.
Some 280 incidents since January 2016. Immediately following the 2016 elections, I tweeted that “Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students.” I delete all my old socialmedia now on a regular and ongoing basis.
You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.
Lots of details this week as tech executives testified in front of Congress about Russian interference in the 2016 election. Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of LearningAnalytics.” ” “How SocialMedia Can Help Teach Good Writing,” according to Edsurge. Who’d have guessed?!
“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. charter school.” From the HR Department.
Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on socialmedia,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. ” From the NASBE : “Trends in Student Data Privacy Bills in 2016.” Commencement and Awards.
Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.” “ The growth of online learning : How universities must adjust to the new norm” is sponsored content on Education Dive. .” Upgrades and Downgrades.
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