Busting five great myths about education and technology.

2. The plan
1. Five myths
2. Debunking
3. Your
rebuttals or
offerings

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

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

9. https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers1414.pdf
“the majority of faculty do not take
advantage of advanced LMS capabilities
that have the potential to improve student
outcomes”

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/

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

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/

18. What other myths
need busting?
What did we learn by
mythbusting today?

19.  Mythic image:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaume
scar/7826851112
 MOOCthulhu: Audrey Watters
 LMS market: Phil Hill
Otherwise as indicated on slides by
URL; all others mine.