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Forgetting Our History: From the Reusability Paradox to the Remix Hypothesis

Iterating Toward Openness

No one wants to trade efficacy for reusability (or for lower cost, or for anything else – as the recent Babson survey showed , faculty want proven efficacy more than anything else). They lack what Giant Robot Dinosaur calls a Minimum Viable Personality. And yet we do this all the time without really realizing it.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via NPR : “Hi, Robot : Adults, Children And The Uncanny Valley.” ” “A robot called Bina48 has successfully taken a course in the philosophy of love at Notre Dame de Namur University , in California,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). Discussion connected my theme with Stephen’s via arguments about sustainability.

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Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “ Robots Won’t Replace Instructors , 2 Penn State Educators Argue. .” There’s more “research” (or at least a write-up of a survey) on student loan debt in “the business of financial aid” section above.

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“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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The robot startup, formerly known as Play-i, has raised $35.9 More on the National Crime Victimization Survey via Politico. ” Phil Hill also weighs in on the latest Babson survey on OER. The company has raised $61 million total. million total. Yellowdig has raised $1 million from SRI Capital.

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Stephen Downes and David Wiley debate OER : “The Cost Trap, Part 3” by David Wiley. “If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER” by Stephen Downes. “If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER: The Cost Trap and Inclusive Access” by David Wiley. . What Does That Mean?