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2015 NMC Horizon Report published
“Six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in educational technology are identified across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years, giving campus leaders and practitioners a valuable guide for strategic technology planning.”
2015 Babson Report on Online Education
Among other things, this national grade level survey shows the gaps in support of online education between administrators and faculty.
Help with New Masters Degree Needs Assessment
The Educational Technology program at OSU is looking for your feedback about the curriculum, format and need for a new Master of Learning Technologies degree. Please take 5 minutes to fill it out. http://go.osu.edu/hjQ
You’ve heard of Moocs – now it’s ‘Welcome to Voocs’
Ethusiasm for online education dips
New Council to Develop Standards, Best Practices for Online Learning
New Council to Develop Standards, Best Practices for Online Learning : “Carnegie Mellon University is convening a high-powered consortium of educators, researchers, and technology-company executives that will spearhead efforts to develop standards and promote best practices in online education.”
10 Lessons from Florida Virtual – by Tom Vander Ark
Georgia Tech’s Computer Science MOOC: The super-cheap master’s degree that could change American higher education. – Slate Magazine
Georgia Tech’s Computer Science MOOC: The super-cheap master’s degree that could change American higher education. – Slate Magazine: “How Georgia Tech’s new, super-cheap online master’s degree could radically change American higher education.”
Big History Project released for K12
Big History Project: ” Yesterday the Bill Gates supported Big History Project opened the free online class for K12 education. It’s an attempt to tell a compressed history of the world since the Big Bang through what historian David Christian calls Thresholds, major transition in the universe (e.g., creation of stars) and on earth (e.g,, appearance of agriculture). It’s unique in it’s approach to history in that it breaks the eurocentric humancentric traditional approaches. Christian endeavors to bring history to science. It is symptomatic of a society trying to find ways to continually condense the huge amount of knowledge that are being generated and communicated on a daily basis (See Big Data ).”