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Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. Our learners will need to thrive and survive in a world that is almost impossible to predict thanks to exponential advances in technology.
Jennifer Sparrow, the university’s senior director of teaching and learning with technology, thinks the fears that some faculty have about artificial intelligence taking their jobs echos the concern some had 20 years ago when higher education was first “branching out into online learning.” Artificial intelligence can play a role in that, too.
Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. But in the past few years the company has suffered several setbacks—along with mounting criticism that its founding CEO, Jose Ferreira, overhyped its technology.
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The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use. Timothy Powell, an ethnographer at the University of Pennsylvania, introduced a project to link digital humanities work and Native American communities.
Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.
I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. And here is the sketchnote Margaret Sisler created during the session: #oer and teacher librarians! Technological Darwinism. Here are our slides. it’s an interesting trend.
And Audrey Watters’ ongoing work on the history of educational technology is vastly more important than anyone seems to realize. It should be absolutely mandatory reading for every student in a graduate program on educational technology or learning sciences, period.
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Campus Technology offers a nice intro , so I’ll focus here on my very quick responses. ” Depending on how you count instances of the former, I’m seeing that all over the place now, driven partly by excitement over technological possibility and also by growing anxiety over the higher education crisis.
Campus Technology offers a nice intro , so I’ll focus here on my very quick responses. ” Depending on how you count instances of the former, I’m seeing that all over the place now, driven partly by excitement over technological possibility and also by growing anxiety over the higher education crisis.
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Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). Companies are investing in immersive technologies. What are immersive technologies? We can inspire our communities to use affordable emerging technologies to create communication products and stories using AR/VR/MR. Library Technology Reports , 54 (6).
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“technologizing” the government. Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.). Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think.”
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Via The MIT Technology Review : “Finally, a Useful Application for VR: Training Employees.” ” “ Coding Boot Camps Are in Trouble, but New York City Has a Plan to Shape Them Up,” says MIT Technology Review. (“The Plan” is really more of “ a report.”). The business of OER.
Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.” ” Via Campus Technology : “Survey of Tech in Education Finds Mixed Results.”
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Speaking of predictions about the “future of work,” Campus Technology says that “ Skills Deficit Will Imperil U.S. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. National) Education Politics. million total.
“Best Online Classes for Job Skills ,” according to MIT Technology Review. ” “ OER , Capability, and Opportunity” by David Wiley. Via Edsurge : “ OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The Business of Job Training. Contests and Awards.
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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)
The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” ISTE will start charging money to license its technology standards , the NETS , which it first released back in 1998.
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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.”
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” Elsewhere in proprietary OER , via Inside Higher Ed : “ Cengage will offer open educational resources, curated and adapted to include proprietary assessment tools, from $25 per student for general education courses.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Why Do the Boy Scouts Want to Include Girls? .”
And this prompted me to update my list of education / technology companies that are ALEC members.). “Equipping people to stay ahead of technological change ,” according to The Economist. ” Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson to Lower Cost of E-Books, Textbooks.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
The robot startup, formerly known as Play-i, has raised $35.9 ” Phil Hill also weighs in on the latest Babson survey on OER. “Researchers Target Brain-Scanning Technology to Improve Ed. The company has raised $61 million total. million total. Yellowdig has raised $1 million from SRI Capital.
*Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Futurism.com : “Here Are the States Where a Robot Is Most Likely to Steal Your Job.” Oh my god, it’s almost time to start working on that year-end project.).
The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” The $1700 robot dog also requires a subscription plan. Robot stories are also Betteridge’s Law of Headlines stories, wouldn’t you know it? The IBM Watson PR machine hums along.
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The NAACP endorses OER. Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson Expands Textbook Rental Program.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via CNBC : “Google exec, Mark Cuban agree that these college majors are the most robot-resistant.” ” Meal kits seem to be a popular startup idea right now.
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Coursera More than Doubles Number of Degrees on Its Platform,” says Campus Technology. ” Perhaps protest Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab ? Edsurge on the business of OER. National) Education Politics.
.” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. “If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER” by Stephen Downes.
But DeVos “believes that technology has a role to play in the classroom,” Edsurge writes in response to the confirmation , which I guess means ed-tech can overlook all of her horrible beliefs that further educational inequalities as long as it means more people buy digital things and hire Edsurge to facilitate that process. .”
Via Education Week : “ Minecraft Party to Raise Money for Technology in Philly Schools.” ” Campus Technology rewrites the press release that Examity will be used for identify verification and proctoring in edX classes. “ Credly Receives Open Badges Certification ,” Campus Technology reports.
“ The Office of Educational Technology Under DeVos” by Doug Levin. A report from VC firm GSV Acceleration : “It’s a Breakout: Capital Flows In the Learning and Talent Technology Market.” Via Edsurge : “OER Pioneer David Wiley Predicts All Community Colleges Will Dump Traditional Textbooks By 2024.”
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