Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Are MOOCs (massive open online courses) the next big thing in higher education, or merely a distraction that won’t change the current system? Is the MOOC revolution only just starting to change how people learn, or has it already failed? It all depends on who you ask. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Shortly after the “Big Three” MOOC providers launched in 2012, nearly everyone focused on user numbers as a sign of their scale and reach. For anyone still keeping tabs on the numbers race, Udacity, Coursera and edX recently shared new figures. EdX shared it hit the 5 million student mark in August. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. What does the future of higher education look like? According to Moses Motha, Teaching and Learning Manager at Rosebank College, a brand of The Independent Institute of Education: “The future of higher education is intricately intertwined with the use of technology and online learning.” More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Danville Community College student Jessica Newman is taking 18 credit hours this fall, with a tuition price tag of about $2,500. When Newman looked for the books for her five classes at the DCC bookstore, she said the cost was just over $1,000. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. This fall, Lincoln Public Schools is rolling out a revamped elementary computer curriculum that emphasizes computer science — and coding — principles. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. LinkedIn today announced that it is open-sourcing an internal tool called FeatureFu. The FeatureFu toolkit is meant to make it easier for developers to build their machine learning models around statistical modeling and decision engines. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. It’s gotten harder to get government workers the training they need. Online learning can help to fill the gap. GovLoop, an online training and collaboration community that describes itself as “the knowledge network for government,” surveyed its members and found that almost 90 percent of respondents had attended at least one virtual learning event in 2014, up 2 percent from 2013. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Writing
Google, 2015/09/18
Guidelines that make web writing clear. They should be posted on the wall of every design shop (including ours). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The paradigm shift: Redefining education
Peter Evans-Greenwood, Kitty O’Leary, Peter Williams, Deloitte, 2015/09/18
Deloitte's Centre for the Edge in Australia has released a report arguing that "being educated" will take on a much broader definition than it has in the past. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Welcome to hell: Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook and the slow death of the web
Nilay Patel, The Verge, 2015/09/17
I think there's some truth and some error in this article. All of it is important. First is the (not-so-)slow strangulation of the traditional web by the big three ocntent providers. More...
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