Audrey Watters runs the blog Hack Education and she's just really, really smart. Here she talks about how the history of ed tech gets rewritten: http://hackeducation.com/2014/06/18/unfathomable-cetis2014/
Audrey Watters on the use and abuse of the term "innovation": http://hackeducation.com/2014/05/14/innovation-cnie-2014/
Another must-read blog is utotherescue.blogspot.com. Here's an outstanding post on the economics of permanent austerity . Much of what is true of the UC system is also true of the UT system.
Jill Lepore dismantles Clayton Christensen's influential theory of disruptive innovation: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all
and http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2014/06/christensens-disruptive-innovation.html
and, from last spring, Audrey Watters: http://hackeducation.com/2013/05/24/disruptive-innovation/
Fantastic post by Mike Caulfield, on learning analytics aka "Big Data": "But it’s precisely the power and potential of analytics that makes it so
important we get this right. And what getting this right means, first
and foremost, is we do it in the open, and avoid the “secret sauce”
mindset we’ve tended to have about such things. As we move out of the
institutional experimentation phase and into the commercialization phase
of analytics, institutions are increasingly being sold a black box of
formulas they can neither share nor explain. And more than anything
else, it’s this “magic number” mentality which makes analytics
dangerous." http://hapgood.us/2014/07/11/no-more-secret-sauce-analytics/
Formal announcement of Unizin, a consortium of public universities with the aim of pooling digital assets and spreading the cost of building learning analytics capacity: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/11/after-weeks-rumors-universities-unveil-digital-education-consortium-unizin#sthash.F0M7f8bT.oNUiAXoW.dpbs and my response to this announcement and UT's possible interest in joining: http://teachingwithoutpants.blogspot.com/2014/06/should-ut-austin-join-unizin.html
Dr. Steven Mintz, the Executive Director of the UT System Institute for Transformational Learning, predicts the future of public higher ed: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/shape-higher-ed-yet-come#sthash.sSNTB5xO.dpbs
Are tenured/tenure-track faculty complicit in the deprofessionalization of higher ed? What should they be doing? http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-are-faculty-complicit-in-creating.html
Thoughtful post on the value of small changes. A good reminder that we don't have to undertake time-consuming course redesigns to see big improvements in student learning: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/disruption-and-value-small-things#sthash.hSF01Jni.qwGJ24Sm.dpbs
Who has the time to learn how to use education technology well? Especially if you are an adjunct/lecturer? http://thesmartcasual.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/technological-innovation-and-the-invisible-labour-of-casuals/
Good review of new tools available on the new release of Canvas. E-Literate is another excellent higher education blog: http://mfeldstein.com/instructurecon-canvas-different-competition-now/#more-5236
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