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Annual Horizon Report details short-and long-term technologies, trends that will impact higher education in the next 5 years. 
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A long-term study by faculty within five Canadian and American institutions has found that physics students have more confidence in their ability to understand course content when reflective study is combined with collaborative activities in a flipped classroom form.
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Four technology and innovation experts discuss the hottest trends in higher ed tech this year.
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For years L&D professionals have been relying on the tried and true standard for tracking e-learning known as SCORM or Sharable Content Object Reference Model. The SCORM specification allows for communication and data collection between an e-learning participant and the learning management system (LMS) that monitors their progress. The problem, however, is that SCORM has limitations which don’t allow for the accurate tracking of much of the learning that currently occurs in the workplace.
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One half of the entertainment duo Penn & Teller explains how performance and discomfort make education come alive.
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Research: Teachers Say Tech Distractions More Concerning than Privacy, Security -- Campus Technology
"With this study we wanted to discover how educators around the world perceive the technology they and their students use on a daily basis," said Jared Stein, vice president of research and education at Instructure, in a prepared statement. "It is enlightening to find that the most pressing concern among educators was distraction, outranking issues like privacy and security. While privacy and security are critical issues, these findings suggest teachers are focused on how, not whether, technology should be used."
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Funding to edtech startups from venture capital firms has grown 503% over the past five years, according to CB insights. In total, the edtech market will receive about $2 billion in venture funding this year. As in any other field, edtech entrepreneurs are interested in addressing critical issues in education while building a sustainable business. To date, new edtech products and services have impacted some of these issues, but incorporating research from cognitive science offers edtech companies the opportunity to increase their impact. In the last 20 years, scientific understanding of human learning and memory has significantly advanced. Research in psychology and neuroscience has identified specific techniques that can help students encode, store and retrieve information; this research is just beginning to inform the work of edtech entrepreneurs. There are a handful of learning technologies that are currently on the market that incorporate principles of cognitive science to support student achievement across multiple measures of learning efficacy, including knowledge creation, subject mastery, memory duration and study time reduction. However, there is also significant noise in the edtech market from companies who claim to be “science-based,” but whose products/services do not effectively use research-based strategies or tools.
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Let’s face it: Online education has always been the unhappy stepchild to traditional classroom teaching. It’s generally been seen as a make-do solution to serve students who—whether for reasons of geography or scheduling—were unable to attend class in person. And, more recently, its great claim to fame has been as a cost saver, a scalable way to enroll large numbers of students with minimal financial outlay. Well, the ugly duckling may be about to turn into a swan.
“We’re starting to hear a real desire for online learning to turn the corner and be focused on a mode of instruction that is inherently better than what we have today in traditional education,” said Chris Walsh, CEO of Zaption, a video learning company based in San Francisco. “People are starting to look at new tools and new opportunities to create an instructional experience that is different but hopefully better as well.”
The idea that online learning could actually be better than face-to-face instruction has gained credence in recent years as new technology solutions promise to make the educational experience more personalized and engaging. Has that time finally arrived? Here, eCampus News looks at seven trends that have the potential to remake the world of online learning.
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A study shows how teachers built their in-class technology integration around five conceptions: theory, creativity, public learning, life preparation, and contextual accommodations. Via Dr. Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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The concept of ‘binge learning’ is gathering momentum, particularly among young people.
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How UK Universities can accelerate digitalisation across teaching, learning and research.
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Communication skills and growth mindset are critical in adopting a schoolwide online program because, regardless of the technology, these skills are the heart of learning.
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"Technology has not done much to improve education on a large scale .... The achievement gap has persisted. But the funny thing is that enthusiasm for technology never seems to have been affected by the 'failures.' ------------------------ Cyclic amnesia best characterizes the history of technology in education. Over the last 100 years or so, we have gone through many cycles of hope and then disappointment: from film to radio, from radio to TV, from TV to computers, and from computers to the Internet. Every cycle started with amazing euphoria and then ended with disappointing outcomes. But somehow, we managed to forget the failures. We did not even stop to reflect what went wrong because new technology emerged, with more power and thus more hope. The new technology seemed so compelling that we could not afford time to reflect. We must act quickly to realize the potential of the new technology. Otherwise, we’d be missing out on its educational benefits. As a result, we have been repeating the same mistakes. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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University of Adelaide is phasing out lectures in favour of online learning and small-group discovery.
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It's an anxious time for many school leavers as they wait to receive their university offers for this year.
Prof. Jill Downie recently spoke with ABC.
Moving online: the future of universities in the online world - RN Breakfast - ABC Radio National…
Via Kim Flintoff, Peter Mellow
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This month Jeff Young, Goldie Blumenstyk, and friends have launched a new section of the Chronicle, called “Re:Learning: Mapping the New Education Landscape”, which looks at some of the recent technological, economic, and political challenges to higher education. I think–and not just because it would be on brand to say so–that this is a potentially interesting refresh of the Wired Campus focus.
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While the topic of mobility technology dominated the Educause list of the most strategic technologies in 2015, this year's compilation for higher ed is quite diverse, covering mobile again alongside analytics, security, application management and delivery, service desk management, business performance and teaching and learning.
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From real-time tracking systems that enable parents to follow their children’s progress in school to plagiarism alerts in universities, technology is changing how people learn and are taught
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PowerPoint (Keynote, Prezi, or any other presentation software that you may use) is a visual medium and is generally better suited for image use rath
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Learning technology is just about everywhere in education. Universities are replete with lecture capture tools, interactive media, web based content and person… Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Ken Morrison
Nancy Jones's curator insight,
December 31, 2016 11:39 AM
while this presentation is really quite in depth (74 slides) it covers some important points. Semms like something that would be interesting to share with colleagues as it really covers a number of topics that apply to modern learners.
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Turtle projects are infrastructure projects that improve bandwidth in schools, the Open University, Janet & SuperJanet, Wikipedia, Khan Academy, YouTube, MOOCs. Moodle… I could go on all day. None of these initiatives are device-focused. They focus on cognitive ergonomics not consumer electronics. Lesson here – stop the largely wasted research on device-based projects, the endless stream of apps and do not keep on taking (and buying) the tablets. Think about learning and learners not devices. Via Nik Peachey
asli telli's curator insight,
November 16, 2015 1:14 AM
Device fetish- #hardware is not an essential issue... 
Wilko Dijkhuis's curator insight,
November 16, 2015 2:26 AM
A UK student on the silliness of edu tech
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If you want to try a Chromebook without spending any money, a free method from Neverware makes this easy.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
Keep your old laptop alive longer and reduce your resource demands on the planet.
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