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Great .edu myths of our time
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1. Five myths
2. Debunking
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4. • User numbers never
took off
• Management lost
community’s trust
• .edu applications slow to grow
• “ support problematic
• The ghost town experience
• Gaming won instead
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6. No business model
Little academic
integration
“ employer
acceptance
Low pedagogical
quality
7. So what next?
MOOCs as
textbooks
as targeted
training
materials
as microclasses
10. “Some colleges that have shelled out licensing fees -- or
at least implementation and upkeep costs -- to give
instructors the opportunity to track attendance, post
learning materials and grades, start threaded
discussions and collect submitted work have found that
some faculty are uninterested in using many of these
tools.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/03/21
/traditional-colleges-aim-boost-lms-usage
11. “[N]early 75 percent of all
faculty use the technology at
least to make course
documents accessible to
students...”
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/11/opinion/steven-bell/looking-for-clues-how-
faculty-use-and-think-about-technology-from-the-bell-tower/
12. “…[T]he reality is that few faculty use
much beyond the most basic functions.
Not even two-thirds use it to record
grades and just over half use it for
communication with students. It makes
the LMS seem like a costly syllabus
delivery system.”
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/11/opinion/steven-bell/looking-for-clues-how-
faculty-use-and-think-about-technology-from-the-bell-tower/
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14. K-12 preparation, heavily shaped by class,
deeply determines higher ed outcomes
Some student life structure exacerbate class
differences
“how Midwest University and many
other large state schools currently
organize the college experience
systematically disadvantages all but the
most affluent…” (3)
15. “82 universities have endowments
worth more than $1 billion… Those 82
universities, mostly private research
universities, own about 70 percent of
all college and university endowment
wealth…”
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/27/7924109/harvard-endowment-vineyards
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17. “Teens aren’t addicted to social
media. They’re addicted to each
other,” [dana b]oyd says.
“They’re not allowed to hang out
the way you and I did, so they’ve
moved it online.”
http://www.wired.com/2013/12/ap_thompson-2/