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See also infographic at Inside Higher Ed review of the report: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/10/educause-survey-finds-rise-use-and-demand-classroom-technology

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

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)

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.

definitions, economics, platforms, assessments, pedagogies still morphing; his perspective as a Fellow at Korea National Open University (and Open U) warns about all the previous efforts that "were ignominiously shuttered"

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.

Blip or trend?

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.