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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Dec 26, 2016


By The Numbers: MOOCS in 2016
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This year's MOOC numbers from Class Central. "In it’s
fifth year, 23 million people worldwide registered for a
MOOC for the first time ever... This makes the total number
of students who signed up for at least one MOOC estimated
to be 58 million."
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The broken edtech ecosystem investors once avoided is
changing
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According to this article, " innovative apps have been
unable to displace archaic, inferior technologies in
schools because of restricted funding and a general
unwillingness of schools to disrupt the status quo." This,
however, is beginning to change. "Schools are ripe for this
new generation of intelligent software that uses data,
analytics and intelligent algorithms to make teaching more
informed and effective and to help students learn better."
I think the gushing tone of this article is a bit
overstated, and so, therefore, is the forecast "to grow
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/global-report-predicts-edtech-spend-to-reach-252bn-by-2020-2016-05-25-4203228"
target="_blank 17 percent year-on-year to become worth $252
billion by 2020," if only because educators are more
resistant to commercialization than they are to technology.
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This Simple Tweak in Goal-Setting Changed My Creative
Output
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If you can get past the come-ons and popups that litter
this page (despite my Firefox settings) you'll enjoy the
discussion of outcome-based versus process-based goals. The
former focuses on short-term results, while the latter
allows for more exploration and depth. " Instead of saying,
“I’m going to run 25 miles this week,”
I’m said, “I’m setting aside 40 minutes
five days a week to go running.” If I run slower,
fine. If I run faster, okay. If something comes up and I
can’t get it done, that’s fine."
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xAPI: Beyond the What
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Short article, maybe a 2-minute read, that will give you a
good overview of xAPI. Something to pass along to an
executive who needs to know but who doesn't have time.
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Pedagogical framing of OER—The case of language teaching
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Ths paper looks at instructor uses and perceptions of open
educational resources based on a survey of teachers and
users of the lektion.se Link
Swedish-language resource and support site. The authors
determine that site users are working with a limied
definition of open educational resources with "little
awareness and no consensus of the definitions of the
concepts of OER." So "the participatory culture is based on
a restricted definition of OER, to state only sharing and
reuse."
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