Trends for 2012 was highlighted both by Hack Education and Tony Bates as below. Most of them have really been a hype as for example MOOC
and the flipped classroom
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012 Hack Education by Audrey Watters
1. The Business of Ed-Tech
The most notable ed-tech trends was:
iPads,
Khan Academy,
social media (the good and the bad),
online learning, and
MOOCs
2. The Maker Movement
Why Maker Faire? Why make? In his talk at Maker Faire this spring, Mythbusters' Adam Savage explains:
3. Learning to Code
Codecademy encouraged people to make this the year they learned to
program. Sign up for an email newsletter, the startup said, and it would
send you one a lesson from the Codeacademy site per week for the entire
year
4. The Flipped Classroom
Flipping the classroom is hardly new. But with all the hype surrounding both
Khan Academy and
MOOCs, it’s hardly surprising that the practice became incredibly popular this year.
Indeed, in his
2011 TED Talk
(which has been watched over 2 million times on YouTube), Salman Khan
talked about the ways in which his videos are used by teachers to “flip
the classroom.
Flipping the classroom also became part of the argument that
Coursera
co-founder Daphne Koller makes about how massive open online classes or
MOOCs ( another huge ed-tech trend of 2012) will change
the offline university experience.
Massive Open Online Courses. MOOCs. This was, without a doubt, the most
important and talked-about trend in education technology this year. Audrey Watters describes a brief timeline of the what the New York Times has called “
The Year of the MOOC”:
As for the other trends as well textbooks and libraries goes open. Of course there are many reasons for that, costs, accessibility, culture of sharing etc. Despite this movement there is the battle with publishers.
7. Education Data and Learning Analytics
Audrey Watters said already in 2011 that more and more of our activities involve computers and the Internet, whether
it’s for work, for school, or for personal purposes. Thus, our
interactions and transactions can be tracked. As we click, we leave
behind a trail of data–something that’s been dubbed “data exhaust.” It’s
information that’s ripe for mining and analysis, and thanks to new
technology tools, we can do so in real time and at a massive, Web scale. There’s incredible potential for data analytics to impact education. The trends with edcuational data and learning analytics were increased fro 2012 and will so do for 2013 as well.
8. The Platforming of Education
Platform use to be referred to everything from software to
hardware, from applications to operating systems, from websites to the
Web and the Internet itself. In tech-marketing-speak, “platform” is
often meant to invoke greatness or aspirations thereof.
9. Automation and Artificial Intelligence
It was Thrun’s
Artificial Intelligence class offered in the Fall of 2011 that’s often credited for the whole MOOC craze
10. The Politics of Ed-Tech
Audrey Watters state that education is political. Education is political not simply
because of the governmental role, but also because of
the connections between education and community. Education is political
because learning is at once personal and social; it is both private and public. Of course, if education is political, then ed-tech must be as well.
As such, the politics of ed-tech isn’t really a trend; it’s a truism.
Besides the top ten list Audrey Watters is aslo mentioned the student (youth)
voice; #Occupy; BYOD (bring your own device); gaming; badges and credentials; the globalization
of ed-tech; cheating; crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.
- The year of the tablet: 99% probability
- Learning analytics: 90% probability
- Growth of open education: 70% probability (depending on definition of open education)
- Disruption of the LMS market: 60% probability
- Integration of social media into formal learning: 66% probability
- The digital university: 10% probability
- Watch India
- The great unknown: 10% probability
He also refered to tehe blogpost by Watter and also stress that MOOC, tablets, lerning analytics and disruptive education maybe are some of the most important.
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