Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference. I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.”

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 29, 2012

These slides accompanied my presentation during the Learning Technologies conference and exhibition held at London's Olympia on 25-26 January. I was pleasantly surprised by the huge turnout to hear me speak, and grateful to Don Taylor and his team for inviting me to speak at this excellent event.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

To help achieve this vision, Mackintosh is setting up the OER University and is evangelistic in his elucidation of this concept. There is growing presence and force behind this vision, and as the OER movement gains traction and impetus, we should expect to see some changes in the way universities offer their programmes of study.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Last week was the major EDUCAUSE annual conference. Many quiet signs of OER. Aras Bozkurt helpfully created this social network analysis of Twitter discussion and influencers , on the fly, during the event itself, because he’s awesome that way: In short: the old conference walls are continuing to tumble down, brick by pixel.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

If you have not participated in a Breakout EDU session at a local, regional, or national education conference, you must do it the next time you see one offered. Breakout EDU experiences have been used at faculty meetings, parent nights at schools, at all types of education conferences, and, of course, in many classroom settings.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The fourth annual Reform Symposium Free Online Conference (RSCON) starts this Friday, October 11th, running for three days and in conjunction with Connected Educator Month. To attend the conference, come to the site to look at the conference schedule in your own time zone (OK, I''m still quite proud of this method) at [link].

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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