- Nov 2017
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www.educause.edu www.educause.edu
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mandate the use of "learning management systems."
Therein lies the rub. Mandated systems are a radically different thing from “systems which are available for use”. This quote from the aforelinked IHE piece is quite telling:
“I want somebody to fight!” Crouch said. “These things are not cheap -- 300 grand or something like that? ... I want people to want it! When you’re trying to buy something, you want them to work at it!”
In the end, it’s about “procurement”, which is quite different from “adoption” which is itself quite different from “appropriation”.
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wrapping.marthaburtis.net wrapping.marthaburtis.net
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our CIO said that sure he could put some money to a pilot that did something like this
Fateful. It might not be about investing resources, but some may miscalculate the resources needed or available for such initiatives.
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www.eduappcenter.com www.eduappcenter.com
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This site is run by Instructure.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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(I would add that the message, “Hey, it’s no big deal to us if we lose some adopters” is not a great one for members of the community who feel like their needs are not being met.)
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www.moodlenews.com www.moodlenews.com
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What should Moodle’s course of action be?
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- Oct 2016
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www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com
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Capterra notes that an average school spends an average of $30,000 to $50,000 per year just on paper, but reusable tech would completely eliminate that cost.
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fivethirtyeight.com fivethirtyeight.com
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In 2015, 24 percent of the oil we used was imported, but we get more of that from Canada than from all the OPEC countries combined.
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fivethirtyeight.com fivethirtyeight.com
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In the end, your assessment of Trump’s chances comes down to the same consideration as with a falling stock: How sound are the fundamentals? Is Trump the equivalent of a beleaguered blue-chip that still has lots of hard assets?
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- Sep 2016
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www.educationdive.com www.educationdive.com
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Interactive whiteboards were all the rage in ed tech purchases several years ago, costing schools millions of dollars but gaining little in the classroom.
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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frame the purposes and value of education in purely economic terms
Sign of the times? One part is about economics as the discipline of decision-making. Economists often claim that their work is about any risk/benefit analysis and isn’t purely about money. But the whole thing is still about “resources” or “exchange value”, in one way or another. So, it could be undue influence from this way of thinking. A second part is that, as this piece made clear at the onset, “education is big business”. In some ways, “education” is mostly a term for a sector or market. Schooling, Higher Education, Teaching, and Learning are all related. Corporate training may not belong to the same sector even though many of the aforementioned EdTech players bet big on this. So there’s a logic to focus on the money involved in “education”. Has little to do with learning experiences, but it’s an entrenched system.
Finally, there’s something about efficiency, regardless of effectiveness. It’s somewhat related to economics, but it’s often at a much shallower level. The kind of “your tax dollars at work” thinking which is so common in the United States. “It’s the economy, silly!”
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www.chronicle.com www.chronicle.com
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often private companies whose technologies power the systems universities use for predictive analytics and adaptive courseware
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necessary to spot students at risk of dropping out or to improve teaching through so-called adaptive-learning courseware
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tressiemc.com tressiemc.com
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If an organization works — and extracting billions of dollars in federal student aid money suggests ITT worked for a long time — then who it most frequently and efficiently works best for is one way to understand the organization.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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a fundamental flaw in combining all things labeled LMS as a single market
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campustechnology.com campustechnology.com
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The news on the self-paced e-learning industry is so bad, Ambient Insight will no longer publish commercial syndicated reports on the industry
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www.educationdive.com www.educationdive.com
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E-learning systems revenues in the United States and China are expected to drop by more than $6 billion annually, according to a new study.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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experts are using learning analytics to try to lower the number of drop-outs
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www.fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com
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"At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment,"
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- Aug 2016
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allmoocs.wordpress.com allmoocs.wordpress.com
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one iteration from success!
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- Jul 2016
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www.thewpcrowd.com www.thewpcrowd.com
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there’s only a fine line between “WordPress in Higher Education” and “WordPress in the Enterprise”.
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www.noshelfrequired.com www.noshelfrequired.com
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learning revolution
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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education technology has become about control, surveillance, and data extraction
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medium.com medium.com
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improving teaching, not amplifying learning.
Though it’s not exactly the same thing, you could call this “instrumental” or “pragmatic”. Of course, you could have something very practical to amplify learning, and #EdTech is predicated on that idea. But when you do, you make learning so goal-oriented that it shifts its meaning. Very hard to have a “solution” for open-ended learning, though it’s very easy to have tools which can enhance open approaches to learning. Teachers have a tough time and it doesn’t feel so strange to make teachers’ lives easier. Teachers typically don’t make big purchasing decisions but there’s a level of influence from teachers when a “solution” imposes itself. At least, based on the insistence of #BigEdTech on trying to influence teachers (who then pressure administrators to make purchases), one might think that teachers have a say in the matter. If something makes a teaching-related task easier, administrators are likely to perceive the value. Comes down to figures, dollars, expense, expenditures, supplies, HR, budgets… Pedagogy may not even come into play.
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www.alfiekohn.org www.alfiekohn.org
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meaningful learning never requires technology
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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From an academic perspective, “explainer” is almost inevitably a misnomer for a two-minute animation aimed at a mass audience.
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- Jun 2016
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www.ted.com www.ted.com
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people really don't want to criticize this, because it is a humanitarian effort, a nonprofit effort and to criticize it is a little bit stupid, actually.
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- Jan 2016
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www.tonybates.ca www.tonybates.ca
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To date Teaching in a Digital Age has been downloaded 13,679 times since its publication in April this year and is also available in print
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www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com
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In 2014, U.S. based education technology (EdTech) companies raised $1.2 billion in funding across 357 venture rounds.
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Bitcoin is not intended to be an investment and has always been advertised pretty accurately: as an experimental currency which you shouldn’t buy more of than you can afford to lose
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don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose
Oft-repeated, rarely-heeded.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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the financial crisis convinced him that national currencies were vulnerable to politics and bad decision-making
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l2ork.music.vt.edu l2ork.music.vt.edu
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It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods. --Geraldine A. Ferraro
Good one.
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- Dec 2015
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www.edsurge.com www.edsurge.com
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sovereign source identity
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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Silicon Valley is not going to make us magically smarter about teaching.
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www.knewton.com www.knewton.com
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Even the course itself is an arbitrary unit size.
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