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Our edtech innovation conference, held in Calgary May 1-3, is now more or less planned: http://edinnovation.ca/ I don’t think I’m overstating things when I say that there won’t be an edtech innovation conference in Canada this year that will have as stellar a line up of keynote speakers and panels: http://edinnovation.ca/conference/edinnovation-2013/ Hope you can join [...]

The most valuable aspect of MOOCs is that the large number of learners enables the formation of sub-networks based on interested, geography, language, or some other attribute that draws individuals together. With 20 students in a class, limited options exist for forming sub-networks. When you have 5,000 students, new configurations are possible. The “new pedagogical [...]

Kuhn emphasized how most activity in science is evolutionary, operating within an existing framework. At a few rare points, anomalies arise that can no longer be addressed by existing frameworks and entirely new conceptions of a field arise. This model of change is relevant in education today. Other models developed by Perez (socio-techno-economic), Schumpeter (creative [...]

For the past several years, in preparation for our Learning Analytics Conference (this year in Leuven, Belgium, registration is now open), we’ve been running an open online course on learning analytics. During this time, I’ve used Moodle and gRSShopper (the system Stephen Downes developed and that we’ve used for all of our joint MOOCs). As [...]

Tony Hirst shared a new initiative via OU UK: UK universities embrace the free, open, online future of higher education powered by The Open University. From a Times HE release: Futurelearn will carry courses from 12 UK institutions (see list), which will be available to students across the world free of charge. It will follow [...]