195 Matching Annotations
  1. Jun 2023
  2. Oct 2020
    1. HyFlex courses can be deceptively difficult to do well. The technology and the curriculum must align, and the technology needs to work consistently for everyone, which requires testing and possibly new installations or upgrades. The learning must be equivalent for all students, guaranteeing that no student is at a disadvantage due to the learning pathway chosen. Instructors must be comfortable and effective with asynchronous teaching; those who are not can easily underestimate the amount of effort and interaction necessary to engage with online students.

      This article was published by EDUCAUSE, a well respected non-profit organization whose mission is "to advance higher education through the use of information technology." The article provides a well rounded view of the HyFlex asynchronous learning environment. The author discusses what HyFlex is, its significance, the downsides, where asynchronous learning is going, and the implications for teaching and learning.

      Rating: 6/10

  3. Mar 2020
    1. Visit past editions of the Horizon Report with annotation enabled and browse/subscribe to a Twitter list of Horizon Report contributors past and present.

      1. 2019
      2. 2018
      3. 2017
      4. 2016
      5. 2015
      6. 2014
      7. 2013
      8. 2012
      9. 2011
      10. 2010
      11. 2009
      12. 2008
      13. 2007
      14. 2006
      15. 2005
      16. 2004
    2. Malcolm Brown, Mark McCormack, Jamie Reeves, D. Christopher Brooks, and Susan Grajek, with Bryan Alexander, Maha Bali, Stephanie Bulger, Shawna Dark, Nicole Engelbert, Kevin Gannon, Adrienne Gauthier, David Gibson, Rob Gibson, Brigitte Lundin, George Veletsianos, and Nicole Weber

      Visit the primary 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report authors on Twitter. You can also browse and subscribe to a Twitter list that collects all the Horizon Report contributors that I could find from the 2020 and 2019 reports.

      1. Malcolm Brown: @mbbrown
      2. Mark McCormack: @MarkMcCNash1
      3. Jamie Reeves: @Jamie_l0u
      4. D. Christopher Brooks: @DCBPhDV2
      5. Susan Grajek: @sgrajek
      6. Bryan Alexander: @BryanAlexander
      7. Maha Bali: @Bali_Maha
      8. Stephanie Bulger: @sdccdBulger
      9. Shawna Dark: @ShawnaDark
      10. Nicole Engelbert: @nengelbert
      11. Kevin Gannon: @TheTattooedProf
      12. Adrienne Gauthier: @ajgauthier
      13. David Gibson: @davidgibson
      14. Rob Gibson: @rgibson1
      15. Brigitte Lundin: @brigittelundin
      16. George Veletsianos: @veletsianos
      17. Nicole Weber: @nwebs
    3. However, there is skepticism about AI’s ability to replace human teaching in activities such as judging writing style, and some have expressed concern that policy makers could use AI to justify replacing (young) human labor.

      Maha describes here the primary concern I have with the pursuit of both AI and adaptive technologies in education. Not that the designers of such tools are attempting to replace human interaction, but that the spread of "robotic" educational tools will accelerate the drive to further reduce human-powered teaching and learning, leading perhaps to class-based divisions in educational experiences like Maha imagines here.

      AI and adaptive tool designers often say that they are hoping their technologies will free up time for human teachers to focus on more impactful educational practices. However, we already see how technologies that reduce human labor often lead to further reductions the use of human teachers — not their increase. As Maha points out, that's a social and economic issue, not a technology issue. If we focus on building tools rather than revalorizing human-powered education, I fear we are accelerating the devaluation of education already taking place.

    4. Maha Bali

      You can learn more about Maha Bali from her faculty page at the American University in Cairo, on her blog "Reflecting Allowed, and from her Twitter stream at @Bali_Maha.

    5. Political Polarization

      And important: the role media plays in political polarization. On this topic, I've found works from the Pew useful, like "U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided":

      "As the U.S. enters a heated 2020 presidential election year, a new Pew Research Center report finds that Republicans and Democrats place their trust in two nearly inverse news media environments."

      Also useful are works from Data & Society like "Media, Technology, Politics: six new pieces on the networked public sphere"

      "Although many people are anxious to understand how much influence old and new media had over the US presidential election, the reality is that we will never know comprehensively. We can, though, seek to understand how different cultural and technical factors are shaping the contemporary information landscape."

    6. Climate Change

      I wonder if we should promote climate change to be an over-arching meta-trend given how its effects will touch on all the other trends listed?

    7. ifteen social, technological, economic, higher education, and political trends that signal departures from the past

      Social

      1. Well-Being and Mental Health
      2. Demographic Changes
      3. Equity and Fair Practices

      Technological

      1. Artificial Intelligence: Technology Implications
      2. Next-Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE)
      3. Analytics and Privacy Questions

      Economic

      1. Cost of Higher Education
      2. Future of Work and Skills
      3. Climate Change

      Higher Education

      1. Changes in Student Population
      2. Alternative Pathways to Education
      3. Online Education

      Political

      1. Decrease in Higher Education Funding
      2. Value of Higher Education
      3. Political Polarization
    8. For sixteen years, the Horizon Report

      You can find all 16 previous editions of the Horizon Report online with annotation enabled. Some editions are also published in different languages on the EDUCAUSE website.

      1. 2019
      2. 2018
      3. 2017
      4. 2016
      5. 2015
      6. 2014
      7. 2013
      8. 2012
      9. 2011
      10. 2010
      11. 2009
      12. 2008
      13. 2007
      14. 2006
      15. 2005
      16. 2004
    9. ExPErt PanEl roStEr

      You can browse/subscribe to a Twitter list of Horizon Report contributors past and present.

  4. Dec 2019
    1. Digital Transformation: Reading the Signals

      Slides for EDUCAUSE digital transformation in EDU webinar from 18 Dec 2019.

    1. Digital transformation is a journey, not a destination. The digital transformation signals listed in this article indicate progress along the way and provide guideposts for the journey.

      Process of EDU digital transformation.

    1. In the context of sweeping social, economic, technological, and demographic changes, digital transformation (Dx) is a series of deep and coordinated culture, workforce, and technology shifts that enable new educational and operating models and transform an institution’s operations, strategic directions, and value proposition.

      Definition of digital transformation (DX).

  5. Sep 2019
    1. We must be sure that we do not confuse the technology tools themselves with the purpose of our work.

      This mantra should be forefront in all our thinking about #EdTech.

    2. offering a degree that not only provided skill value but also transformed our students' social capital and cultural capital

      And maybe this is the core of the tension around higher ed for jobs/skills vs "the value of a liberal arts education". To be an engine for social mobility, education needs to transfer not just skills, but social and cultural capital.

    3. As a result, our students now benefit from sharing courses, research projects, and databases and collaborating in the same way that they see faculty collaborating online and in face-to-face courses.

      Interesting: an outcome of the "EdTech 3.0" work at VCU was that the student experience evolved to become more like the faculty experience.

    4. the academic discipline gave us a systematic way to think about whether or not we were reproducing offline realities in our online learning spaces

      So inspiring to think about how each discipline might use its own practices to embed, interrogate and shape the #EdTech in use. "EdTech 3.0" is the meta we've been waiting for.

    5. Rachel Baker and her colleagues at the Stanford University Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA)

      Learn more about Dr Baker and CEPA.

    6. it doesn't matter whether or not a tool can do something; it matters whether or not students can make sense of what the tool is doing

      Yes! This is why digital literacies programs that focus on training for specific tools miss the point: students really need metaskills and literacies that they can then apply to specific tools.

    7. In this process, we found that we could not make any baseline assumptions about our students' ability to access, use, or make sense of edtech tools in their existing context.

      Yes! Thinking back to my note above about how the tech we may need to think about most or first may not even be "EdTech", but some of the more basics of network and hardware.

    8. what would it look like if education technology were embedded in the everyday practice of academic disciplines?

      Perhaps the core question of this article.

    9. So our learning technologies cannot continue to live solely in our administrative units; our academic units are where we are doing some of the more transformative work of learning.

      A direct call to locate #EdTech on the "academic side of the house" in EDUs.

    10. If these tools are going to survive into the phase of what we should do with education technology, I believe they must be embedded in the everyday practice of the higher education institution.

      Thinking here about the technologies that end up being used in everyday practices of teaching and learning, but live mostly outside the structure/sphere of influence of EDUs, for example, smart phones, ecommerce, or even the Internet itself. I'm thinking TMcC is also calling for thinking about how those are embedded in everyday practices of education and we should be thinking about what we should do with them as well.

    11. by Tressie McMillan Cottom

      If you don't already know Dr McMillan Cottom, you might check out her recent books, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy and Thick, And Other Essays, tune in to her podcast with Roxane Gay, Hear to Slay, visit her website, or for more frequent updates, follow her on Twitter.

      Annotate here, or you can also join in the annotations on her post “Why Is Digital Sociology?

    1. digital literacies

      Kudos for using the plural — "literacies" — right off the bat, not only given the many literacies listed later (eg, data literacy, information literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, metaliteracy, etc), but also that there are multiple literacies even in a single category.

    2. Within the study of digital literacies per se, one potential pitfall is focusing too closely on narrow dimensions, such as gaining new digital skills, at the expense of ensuring that learners develop the lifelong capac-ity needed to distinguish digital literacy from simple digital proficiency.

      Amen! For example: proficiency in a specific software program (eg, MS Word) rather than broader literacies about how such software can be used generally (eg, word processing).

    3. Digital literacies include data literacy, information literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, and metaliter-acy, as well as related capacities for assessing social and ethical issues in our digital world.

      Some of the different kinds of digital literacies.

  6. Mar 2019
    1. 7 things you should know about This page offers two lists of technologies. One relates to learning technologies and the other to campus IT. In either case, one clicks "see all" and is shown a list of many up and coming technologies. One can click the links to get a discussion of seven things the user should know about these technologies. Reports are two pages and follow a set format that includes a brief story or illustration. These introduce the visitor to the use of the technology but do not provide extensive explanation; it is an introduction. Technologies listed on these pages are often but not always technologies that the average instructional designer may put to use. Rating: 3/5

  7. Feb 2019
    1. Deone Zell

      Deone is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    2. Francisca Yonekura

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Francisca. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    3. Matthew Worwood

      Matthew is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    4. Neil Witt

      Neil is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    5. Alexandra Williams

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Alexandra. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    6. Catherine Wilkinson

      Catherine is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    7. Niki Whiteside

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Niki. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    8. Ken Varnum

      Ken is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    9. Kate Valenti VP Operations

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Kate. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    10. Michael Thomas

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Michael. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    11. David Thomas

      David is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    12. Lori Swinney

      Lori is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    13. Nachamma Sockalingam

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Nachamma. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    14. Jason Smith

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Jason. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    15. Paul Signorelli

      Paul is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    16. Diane Sieber

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Diane. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    17. William Shewbridge

      William is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    18. Ramesh Sharma

      Ramesh is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    19. Gilly Salmon

      Gilly is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    20. Jeff Ritter

      Jeff is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    21. Michael Reese

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Michael. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    22. Ruben Puentedura Founder

      Ruben is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    23. Jeanne Po

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Jeanne. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    24. Renee Pfeifer-Luckett Director, Learning

      Renee is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    25. Doug Peterson

      Doug is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    26. Rob Peregoodoff

      Rob is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    27. David Parkes

      David is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    28. Sunay Palsole

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Sunay. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    29. Chaohua Ou

      Chaohua is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    30. Javier Nó Sánchez

      Javier is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    31. Kristi Newgarden

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Kristi. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    32. Ruth Nemire

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Ruth. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    33. Carol Munn

      Carol is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    34. Damian McDonald

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Damian. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    35. Shannon McCarty

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Shannon. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    36. Sheila MacNeill

      Sheila is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    37. Danielle Logan

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Danielle. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    38. Joan Lippincott

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Joan. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    39. Meggan Levitt

      Meggan is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    40. Mark Lee

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Mark. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    41. Deborah Lee

      Deborah is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    42. Fernando Ledezma

      Fernando is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    43. Jill Leafstedt

      Jill is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    44. Victoria Mondelli

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Victoria. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    45. Alexandra Pickett

      Alexandra is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    46. Roberta (Robin) Sullivan

      Robin is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    47. Paul Turner

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Paul. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    48. Nicole Weber

      Nicole is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    49. Melissa Langdon

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Melissa. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    50. Lisa Koster

      Lisa is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    51. Thierry Koscielniak Chief Digital Officer

      Thierry is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    52. Jessica Knott

      Jessica is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    53. David Kernohan

      David is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    54. AJ Kelton

      AJ is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    55. Amarjit Kaur

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Amarjit. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    56. Dr. Wendi Kappers

      Wendi is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    57. Jim Julius

      Jim is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    58. Connie Johnson

      Connie is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    59. Shakir Hussain

      Shakir is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    60. Bill Hogue

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Bill. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    61. Richard Hodges

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Richard. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    62. Doug Hearrington

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Doug. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    63. Tom Haymes

      Tom is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    64. Syed Mustafa Hassan

      Syed is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    65. Heather Haseley

      Heather is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    66. Kelsey Hall

      Kelsey is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    67. Martin Halbert

      Martin is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    68. David Gibson

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for David. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    69. Rob Gibson

      Rob is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    70. Aline Germain-Rutherford

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Aline. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    71. Maya Georgieva

      Maya is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    72. James Frazee

      James is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    73. Kevin Forgard

      Kevin is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    74. Kenn Fisher

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Kenn. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    75. Yvette Drager

      Yvette is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    76. Kimberly Eke

      Kimberly is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    77. Julie Delello

      Julie is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    78. Rebecca Davis

      Rebecca is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    79. Janet Corral

      Janet is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    80. Deborah Cooke

      Deborah is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    81. Chun-Yen Chang

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Chun-Yen Chang. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    82. Stephanie Bulger

      Stephanie is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    83. Cheryl Brown

      Cheryl is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    84. Malcolm Brown

      Malcolm is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    85. Marwin Britto

      Marwin's Twitter account is private, so I wasn't able to add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    86. Jonathan Brennan

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Jonathan. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    87. Dr. Braddlee

      Braddlee is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    88. Mohamad Ridwan Bin Othman

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Mohamad. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    89. Dror Ben-Naim Founder & CEO

      Dror is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    90. Helga Bechmann

      Helga is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    91. Ronald Bergmann

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Ronald. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    92. Elizabeth Barrie

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Elizabeth. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    93. Noreen Barajas

      Noreen is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    94. Maha Bali

      Maha is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    95. John Augeri

      John is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    96. Kevin Ashford-Rowe

      Kevin is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    97. Panel of Experts

      I've started curating a HorizonReport2019 Twitter list of the folks involved in shaping the 2019 report. Join us in annotating the report preview. I'm adding a note to each name below about my effort to add them to the list. Check out the notes below or visit the list and let me know who is missing!

    98. Kumiko Aoki

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Kumiko. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    99. Serdar Abaci

      I couldn't find a Twitter handle for Serdar. If you know what it is, reply below or tweet me @xolotl and I'll add them to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    100. Jean Amaral

      Jean is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    101. Bryan Alexander

      Bryan is added to the HorizonReport2019 Twitter list.

    1. Modularized and Disaggregated Degrees

      This will continue to grow, in my opinion, because we are trying to prepare students for jobs that haven't even been created yet. Therefore, I see students that will build their own degrees for jobs that they want to create once they move into the workforce. Exciting!

    2. Despite these options, degree completion in higher education is stymied by factors that go beyond these efforts, and closing the achievement gap continues to be a difficult challenge

      I wonder if we need to think beyond digital tools to really address the achievement gap.

    3. the expert panel

      I've started curating a Twitter list of the folks involved in shaping the 2019 Horizon Report. Visit the list and let me know who is missing.

    4. ubrics like Quality Matters h

      Also look at Open SUNY Course Quality Review OSCQR rubric.

    5. Improving Digital Fluency

      Not to beat a dead horse, but just like we should maybe always think of digital literacies in the plural, we should also think about digital fluencies as there is certainly more than one type or kind of fluency.

    6. Growing Focus on Measuring Learning

      This topic belongs here, but I would have liked to see an acknowledgement about privacy concerns related to measuring learning. How are we engaging students in the design of this work?

    7. EDUCAUSE2019 Horizon Report Previe

      Read annotations on the 2019 Horizon Report Preview from EDUCAUSE. Sign up or log in above to add your own annotations and replies.

  8. Nov 2018
    1. Educational Technology Leadership and Practice in Higher Education: The Emergence of Threshold Concepts

      This article explores how technology has become the new standard for higher education and this new standard has created a need to develop new concepts on how to view a subject. Additionally, methods to use educational technology resources are described. Rating: 5/5

  9. Oct 2018
    1. Leveraging Technology to Create Social Readers

      Read annotations on "Leveraging Technology to Create Social Readers" in EDUCAUSE Review. Sign up or log in above to add your own annotations and replies.

    1. Horizon Report 2018 Higher Education Edition

      Read annotations on the Horizon Report: 2018 Higher Education Edition from EDUCAUSE. Sign up or log in above to add your own annotations and replies.

    1. Meanwhile, IT organizations are often defined by what's necessary rather than what's possible, and the cumulative weight of an increasingly complex communications infrastructure weighs ever heavier.

      In the middle of a deeper exploration of the 2014 edtech landscape.

    2. In our main article, we argue that those of us in higher education, rather than offloading our vision to venture capital-inspired "solutions" for education, should be using open architecture, through open-source applications, to reinvest in creative people, processes, and possibilities-that is, to reclaim innovation.

      A call for and examples of opening knowledge practices.

    1. I imagine it is possible that personalized and adaptive learning could well preserve that which is sacred in the faculty-student relationship, freeing faculty to focus on what matters most. After all, what I cherish most about the colleges and universities I have attended are the human connections.

      This seems like what everyone who values the human connections in education wants — and promotes as a healthy outcome of technology-enhanced learning — but do we have any evidence that this hope is borne out? It seems that most technology interventions in education are happening in an environment where there are also strong forces working to reduce the costs — especially labor costs — and so machines are most often displacing human connections rather than freeing up time for more.

    2. Growing up as an immigrant to this world of technology-enabled possibility filled me with a sense of endless wonder that may come less easily to natives.

      The idea that a "digital immigrant" may have a more positive relationship with digital technology than a "digital native".

    1. We, the Architects. I've made this point elsewhere, but what is both exciting and daunting is that the shift to a component-based approach provides an unprecedented opportunity to shape, rethink, plan, and design our digital learning environments.7 An architect is a proactive agent who looks to plan structures and environments to accommodate future usage. By taking the component approach, we can all adopt an architect's perspective and work to design the learning environments we want and need.

      <3 this!

      Still remember I used the word architect in the first draft of the 'unLMS' paper but was refuted by one reviewer.

      The component-based approach is probably urging us to take an architect perspective. My intuition is working as architects requires awareness of many cross-cutting ideas -- components and 'the whole', design and engineering, history and human values, and so forth.

    1. Data has value; what do we owe students when we collect their data?

      It would behoove us to be clear about all the "we"s that collect student data: from teachers, to depts, to institutions, to software vendors, to accreditors, to govt agencies, to third parties that harvest data from these other "we"s. Perhaps our first duty is to help students understand the constellation of data collection and sharing they (and we all) participate in, so they can start understanding and be better prepared to make informed choices.

  10. Sep 2018
  11. Aug 2018
    1. Brought to you by EDUCAUSE

      Not a tagline I ever thought I'd see come along with the HR. Great to see so many individuals/orgs/and even brand new projects jump in to support this important work.

    1. Administrators who are charged with the development of open education policy may not fully understand the opportunities inherent in OER and OEP, partic-ularly for learners.

      The other key area of alignment: with learners.

    2. Open Education: Policies

      Join other folks annotating the full PDFs of @EDUCAUSELI's other two related posts about content and practices in open education:

      1. 7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Content
      2. 7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Practices
    3. They clearly align the open education policy with the university’s mission statement and strategic goals.

      Institutional alignment is absolutely critical so the policies can be shaped for the institution and so leadership can provide aligned support.

    1. Open Education: Practices

      Join other folks annotating the full PDFs of @EDUCAUSELI's other two related posts about content and policies in open education:

      1. 7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Content
      2. 7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Policies

      While I think this post does a good job of summarizing OEP, I'm disheartened to see the piece shaped so clearly from the perspective that OER is the necessary heart or foundation of OEP. From my POV, OER and open-licensing is a key infrastructural component, but is neither necessary nor sufficient in the larger and more important project to "reconceptualize and improve pedagogy and advance authentic, participatory, engaged learning" that this work rightly champions. Why must OEP always rest so heavily on OER? It's as if we have mistaken tactics for goals.

  12. Jul 2018
    1. Embodying a commitment to learner-driven education, OEP involves students in “active, constructive engagement with [open] content, tools and services in the learning process” in ways designed to help promote learners’ self-management, cre-ativity, and ability to work in teams.

      The editorial addition of "[open]" in this quote betrays what seems like an underlying bias in this work: that open educational PRACTICES require and are always based on open educational RESOURCES. Hence the move to changing OEP to "OER-enabled pedagogy" below. I would argue that yes, there is a deep connection between OEP and OER, that OEP benefits from using OER, but that OEP is possible without OER. And unlike, Abruzzi's story, one might just as easily start from an OEP experience and eventually come to use OER as a part of it.

    2. OEP provide the architecture and philosophical underpin-ning for fulfilling the promise of using OER to expand collabora-tive, inclusive, accessible, and active learning and related pedagogy.

      Again, this makes it seem like OEP is solely an outgrowth of OER, when I would argue that "expanding collaborative, inclusive, accessible, and active learning" is a primary goal that may or may not engage OER.

    3. A key tenet is the positioning of the learner as a central, active player in the learning experience.

      Agreed. And this tenet is far more important that the copyright status of the materials involved.

    4. Going forward, practitioners and researchers envision that the focus around OEP will evolve from a relatively narrow emphasis on development, revising, and distribution of OER to further development of related practices, architectures, principles, and policies

      This imagines that current OEP activities are more focused on OER than may in fact be the case.

    1. an institutional rather than a user focus

      This is key: Desires to use portfolios in institutional/program assessment practices are part of what has made them cumbersome. Portfolio use in programs that emphasized their value for students and learning have always been the best examples in my opinion (eg, Portland State, LaGuardia CC, Clemson), even if they also use them in institutional/program assessment too.

    2. e-portfolios did not become the standard form of assessment as proposed

      Agreed, and yet I still believe that portfolios are a powerful part of what some call "authentic" assessment practices.

    3. for many students owning their own domain and blog remains a better route to establishing a lifelong digital identity

      DoOO is definitely a great goal, especially if it is viewed in part as a portfolio activity, so people use their domains to build up a lifelong portfolio. What seems key is having the right supports in place to help people and institutions reach such goals not only technically, but most importantly, as a set of practices integrated into their personal and institutional workflows.

    4. e-portfolios

      FWIW, I think the eportfolio community coalesced around not using a hyphen or capital P in the term. Some prefer to just talk about "portfolios", reasoning that the "electronic" part was not a necessary ingredient and probably should be updated to "digital" regardless.

    5. What has changed, what remains the same, and what general patterns can be discerned from the past twenty years in the fast-changing field of edtech?

      Join me in annotating @mweller's thoughtful exercise at thinking through the last 20 years of edtech. Given Martin's acknowledgements of the caveats of such an exercise, how can we augment this list to tell an even richer story?

    6. 2008: E-Portfolios

      My first entry into edtech was in eportfolios, back in 2004 when I was at Portland State University. PSU was probably an early adopter of eportfolios, so 2008 may be the right year to put them in as a wider focus.

  13. Jun 2018
    1. OER support the practice of open ed-ucation, an umbrella term for the mix of open content, practices, policies, and communities that, properly leveraged, can provide broad access to effective learning opportunities for everyone.

      Great to see my earlier comment led to a fix here: "opportunities" now replaces "materials" and it all makes more sense.

    2. Working in an open education envi-ronment might better prepare students for work in today’s in-creasingly collaborative and interdisciplinary workplaces.

      This would be a great part of a "7 Things..." that focuses on open education in addition to open content.

    3. Many practitioners argue that open education could be positioned as a core education prac-tice, with learners producing, evaluating, using, revising, and shar-ing OER

      maybe add: "as one of the many practices enabled by open education."

    4. Open Education: Content

      I'm a little confused that the title of this work is "7 Things You Should Know About Open Education", but it seems to focus mostly on OER. Is this the first in a series of "7 Things..." works about open education and content is just the first topic?

    5. OER support the practice of open ed-ucation, an umbrella term for the mix of open content, practices, policies, and communities that, properly leveraged, can provide broad access to effective learning materials for everyone.

      Not to quibble, but this sentence makes it seem like the primary outcome of open education is to provide "effective learning materials", which I think unnecessarily limits what #OEP can generate.

  14. Feb 2018
    1. Teaching, Learning, and IT Issues: Points of Intersection

      Intersections between EDUCAUSE's 2018 top 10 IT and teaching and learning issues.

    2. The IT and the T&L visions are thus fairly congruent: integrating disparate applications so that they offer our communities a consolidated environment and more customizable functionality. These are invigorating and also daunting challenges.

      Drawing connections between decentralizing services in the ERP > enterprise architecture and LMS > NGDLE.

    3. with more data comes more responsibility

      on the responsibility generated by aggregating learner data

    4. EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Key Issues in Teaching and Learning surveys

      Visit the 2018 ELI Key Issues in Teaching and Learning with Hypothesis annotation enabled.

    5. EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues

      Visit the 2018 EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues with Hypothesis annotation enabled.

    1. IT organizations will be focusing on four areas this year: Institutional adaptiveness IT adaptiveness Improved student outcomes Improved decision-making

      EDU IT's top 4 issues:

      1. Institutional adaptiveness
      2. IT adaptiveness
      3. Improved student outcomes
      4. Improved decision-making
  15. Jan 2018
    1. competency-based education and new methods of assessment (from #5 to #16)

      Will CBL follow the pattern of MOOCs? Wait, what pattern did MOOCs follow? They are certainly not gone...

    2. See how the results of the latest ELI Key Issues in Teaching and Learning Survey stack up against responses from years past.

      Jump to an annotated version of ELI's 2018 Key issues in Teaching and Learning.

    1. Key Issues in Teaching and Learning

      Jump to Malcom Brown's post contextualizing ELI's 2018 Key issues in Teaching and Learning.

      2018 key issues include:

      1. Academic Transformation
      2. Accessibility and UDL
      3. Faculty Development
      4. Privacy and Security
      5. Digital and Information Literacies
      6. Integrated Planning and Advising Systems for Student
      7. Instructional Design
      8. Online and Blended Learning
      9. Evaluating Technology-based Instructional Innovations
      10. Open Education
      11. Learning Analytics
      12. Adaptive Teaching and Learning
      13. Working with Emerging Technology
      14. Learning Space Designs
      15. NGDLE and LMS Services
  16. Feb 2017
    1. What if it's actually the web that needs saving? And what if it's higher education that is best suited to save it?
  17. Jan 2017
  18. Nov 2016
    1. Twenty-seven million to 29 million viewers, on average, tuned in every night to hear Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.
    1. "His ratings on the day he left the 'Evening News' were bigger than all three network newscasts together today," Socolow said. "He had an average rating of 27 million to 29 million viewers."
    1. In the mid-1960s, approximately 90 percent of televisions in use at the dinner hour were turned to one of the network newscasts. And by 1980, their combined audience peaked at 52.1 million viewers. By contrast, in 2011, according to the Pew Research Center, only about 22 million viewers watched them, and their share of the television audience at the dinner hour had declined to 29 percent. This is why the Cronkite era is widely regarded as television news’s “golden age.” While he occupied the anchor’s chair, many more Americans watched news programs broadcast by the networks, and those programs were more serious and substantive than television news today.
  19. Jul 2016
  20. Jun 2015