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Tech News from the
Recent Past and NearFuture
Jason B. Jones, ProfHacker co-editor | @jbjGoldie Blumenstyk, Chronicle reporter | @GoldieStandard
Jeff Young, Chronicle tech editor | @jryoung
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Adam Melancon: https://flic.kr/p/7StppH
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What we used to mean
when we talked about thefor-profit higher education
industry?Companies like the Apollo EducationGroups, DeVry, Corinthian Colleges Inc.
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What do we mean today
when we talk about for-profit higher education
industry? Also, companies like 2U, Civitas, Echo360, Acrobatiq, Smart Sparrow, Koru, etc.
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What’s changed?
Private companies are playing a more-directrole in the actual process of educating
students.
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Like the software services now housed inthe cloud, these services are no longerwholly housed on campus nor wholly
controlled by university faculty andadministrators.
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Myriad Implications forCampus Leaders
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1.
Memorize this simple(slightly
ungrammatical) six-wordquestion:
“What research is thisbased on?”
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2.
Colleges should be
prepared to ask, andcompanies should be
prepared toanswer: ”What is the
upgrade cycle?”
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3.
Are there some protocols
and best practices that canbe developed for what the
geeks call “rapid cycleevaluations?”
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Source: Fortune Ma azine
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The language of a CEO
“We think of it like a
robot tutor in the skythat can semi-read your
mind and figure outwhat your strengthsand weaknesses are,down to the percentile.”
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Former College
Admin’s Take “I’m sorry, but this sort of
quasi-mystical garbagedebases the very notion ofeducation and harmsKnewton’s brand in the
process.” -MichaelFeldstein
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Former College
Admin’s Take “If you want to sell me a product that helps
students to learn, then don’t insult my
intelligence. Explain what the damned thingdoes in clear, concrete, and straightforwardlanguage, with real-world examples whenpossible.”
-Michael Feldstein
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Buzzword
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Richard
Culatta,US Ed Dept.
"In order to take this from an, ‘Oh that’s an
interesting idea,’ to something you can actually
implement, we have to get more precise with our
language."
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Culatta’s Definitions
Competency-based learning: you move when you showyou can do.
Adaptive learning: technology assigns educationalresources.Individualized learning: adjusts the pace of instruction.Differentiated learning: adjusts the instructional
approach.Personalized learning: adjusts pace, approach, andadds student agency.
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Why Now?
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Before
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Teacher ‘Dashboards’
•Sal Khan: “Our
paradigm is to really arm
the teachers with asmuch data as possible…
so the teacher canactually diagnosis what’s
wrong with the studentso they can make theirinteraction as productiveas possible.”
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Studio Boom atColleges
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Also boom ininstructional designers
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Cautionary Tale of UF
Online
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• $35-million effort that was urged by the FloridaLegislature in 2013
• Suffered poor enrollment, especially from out of
state
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Questions?