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Video recording of Sebastian Thrun's (Google, Udacity) keynote at this week's 18th Annual Sloan Consortium Conference on Online Learning

This blog post and the next 2 helped me understand the scope of the change we are talking about.

Chronicle article (paywalled) on how more writing will help students learn more--an interesting problem when combined with the prevalence of MOOCS, where writing assignments are only looked over by peers.

Technology in Education can be used to facilitate instruction and realise many long-standing and sound goals around personalised learning, and clear learning outcomes, on campus and in online education.

@LauraZavelson of Elon U - mindmap connecting to EdTech Startups inventoried in "The Siege of Academe" Washington Monthly (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2012/features/_its_three_oclock_in039373.php?page=1) - four clusters: - scaleable education - credentials - knowledge wrappers - learning enhancement

national initiative to re-imagine and then to redesign undergraduate education for the 21st century

Good resource - Prof Altbach has been in the HE discussion game for a long time (week 1 readings included a paper he did for a UNESCO conf)

Another international take on MOOCs. Do MOOCs pose more of a threat to international branch campuses, since they focus on career-oriented training?

A provocative comparison. Perhaps what will push MOOCs over the top will be employers accepting them.

Kimberly Arnold (Purdue) on Signals, John Fritz (UM, Baltimore Co), Eric Kunnen (Grand Rapids CC) on Astro Fritz refers to his presentation at EDUCAUSE 2 years ago where he presented on using Blackboard user stats (for informing faculty/departments who then analyze it) in a panel with John Campbell of Purdue who had just come out with his Signals program. 5 stages of analytics on campus (extraction/reporting, analysis/monitoring, what-if scenario building, predictive modeling/simulation, automatic triggers of business processes)

Keep an eye on this one. Bowen's findings are always influential.