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

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

A couple of years ago, I was part of a year-end webinar with MindWires’ Consulting’s Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein and one or other of them – I don’t remember now – predicted that 2016 would be a big year for the LMS. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history.

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Online Classes Get a Missing Piece: Teamwork

Edsurge

Often in online courses students disappear and drop,” says Barbara Illowsky, dean of basic skills and online educational resources (OER) and a professor of mathematics and statistics at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. I’m hoping this helps them to stay vested in the course as they’re working with their classmates.”

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Highlights From a Year of Tracking Future Trends in Education

Edsurge

I suspect the spark for them was Bernie Sanders’ proposal during the 2016 presidential campaign, as that clearly resonated with many voters, especially younger ones, and was soon revised and taken up by Hillary Clinton’s team. If we look back on 2017 in educational technology, some of the biggest surprises were political and cultural.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The business of OER. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The company, which makes educational and entertainment robots, has raised $520 million total. ” More via The NYT : “Uber Hid 2016 Breach, Paying Hackers to Delete Stolen Data.” TBH, I still can’t remember what Unizin actually is.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For more news about robots not taking jobs, see the HR section above.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via eCampus News : “ Cengage launches MindTap ACE, an OER-based solution for higher ed.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Campus Technology : “ Clemson U , Carnegie Mellon to Develop Robots for Advanced Manufacturing.” .” Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson to Lower Cost of E-Books, Textbooks.”