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Current trends in education and technology
This was a lunchtime presentation given by Audrey Watters on the top educational trends at Coventry University as part of the West Midlands ALT group. Further information about the talk is available here:
http://dmll.org.uk/2017/03/visiting-fellow-audrey-watters/
Essentially the top educational trends are not about technology at all; they include:
- Wishful thinking
- The politics of educational technology
- The business of educational technology
- Free and open
- For profit HE
- The 'new economy'
- Credentialling
- Data insecurity (this links with a lot of what was said at the UCISA event back in March 2017)
She also mentioned:
- The ideology of Neil Sullivan (although I'm struggling to find a reference to him)
- Personalisation (playlists for learning)
- Individualism
This blog post talks more about what Audrey discussed: