The movie industry uses someone's music without authorisation in an anti-piracy video. They first refuse to deal with it then try and cream money from any deal. The irony weeps from every pore!
"Some might argue that the analytics tools at our disposal are currently mainly used for boring purposes, such as improving processes and making money. In this paper we will try to define learning analytics and their purpose for learning and education. We will ponder on the best possible fit of particular types of research methods and their analysis. Methodological concerns related to the analysis of Big Data collected on online networks as well as ethical and privacy concerns will also be highlighted and a case study of the use of learning analytics in a Massive Open Online Course explored."
Some thoughts on how Coursera might make money - and some insights into how they currently organise e.g. more than $1m per staff member in venture capital available.
"The question I'd ask: is the money that mass-marketing colleges are spending on marketing themselves and scaling themselves well spent? Are they organizing for changing lives or for ranking high? Does NYU have to get so much bigger? Why?"
Two Potential Futures
Our forecast suggests that the learning ecosystem
is going to diversify, and indeed has already
started to do so. At the American Alliance of
Museums' convening on the future of education
Glimpses of the Future of Education
By Katherine Prince, Senior Director, Strategic Foresight, KnowledgeWorks
A detail of a KnowledgeWorks infographic on the future of learning. For the complete infographic go to knowledgeworks.
org/strategic-foresight.
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Glimpses of Future Educationin September, I had the pleasure of
sharing two plausible scenarios for
how the future may take shape. We
could find ourselves living in:
* a vibrant learning grid in which
all of us who care about learning
create a flexible and radically
personalized learning ecosystem
that meets the needs of all
learners, or
* a fractured landscape in which
only those whose families have
the time, money and resources
to customize or supplement their
learning journeys have access to
learning that adapts to and meets
their needs.