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MotivatED

By David Vogt on December 26, 2015

MotivatED is a fictitious venture authored and pitched by ETEC522 student Danielle Couture. Welcome Investors and EVAs  to MotivatEd, Game based learning is all the rage, yet this has left teachers juggling with large quantities of apps, passwords and associated costs    Imagine if there was a low-cost solution to increasing student motivation and engagement […]

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PrintPass

By David Vogt on December 18, 2015

PrintPass is a fictional venture authored by MET student Victoria Olson. This is my original venture idea: PrintPass. It is a multi-user profile system for the iPad, that stores user credentials for third-party apps across the device. With a simple touch of the user’s fingerprint to the Touch ID sensor, PrintPass will simultaneously sign into all apps […]

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IncentivED

By David Vogt on December 18, 2015

IncentivED is an Elevator Pitch and Venture Pitch created by 2015ETEC522 student Craig Brumwell Introducing IncentivED: a crowdsourced rewards program for teachers to create and share customized field trip resources. IncentiveED is created on the principle that teachers know best what “works” with students. They are best suited to create meaningful and engaging field resources. […]

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Opportunity Forecast Holding Page

By David Vogt on May 13, 2014

This page will be replaced with a Launch Post for this week’s OER as soon as the team is ready (emerging market teams should provide the instructor a link to their launch post as soon as it is ready).

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Hello! DavidP here…

By David Porter on May 11, 2014

Welcome ETEC 522 students. We’re looking forward to working with you all over the next 13 weeks. A good part of the curriculum and content for ETEC 522 is generated through collaborative engagement during this course. We welcome your ideas and are eager to see how the class will steer the direction of the 2014 […]

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OECD: Innovation Strategy for Education & Training

OECD: Innovation Strategy for Education & Training

By David Vogt on May 10, 2014

OECD – Trends Shaping Education 2016 OECD – Current Research Projects The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions […]

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THE Journal

THE Journal

By David Vogt on May 10, 2014

THE Journal THE Journal is dedicated to informing and educating K-12 senior-level district and school administrators, technologists, and tech-savvy educators within districts, schools, and classrooms to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology. Launched in 1972, THE Journal was the first magazine to cover education technology. THE Journal is the leading resource for administrative, technical, […]

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Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends

Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends

By David Vogt on May 10, 2014

Gartner: Top Ten Strategic Technologies Each year, Gartner Research compiles a list of the top technology trends that have the potential to affect individuals, businesses and IT organizations during the next three years. For the second consecutive year, the Nexus of Forces — mobile, social, cloud and information — permeates most of Gartner’s Top 10 […]

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Educause – 2018 Top Ten IT Issues

By David Vogt on May 10, 2014

Educause: 2018 Top Ten IT Issues EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association and the foremost community of IT leaders and professionals committed to advancing higher education. EDUCAUSE presents the top-ten IT issues facing higher education institutions. Many of these issues are not new. 

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Educause: Seven Things

By David Vogt on May 10, 2014

Educause: Seven Things EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association and the foremost community of IT leaders and professionals committed to advancing higher education. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI’s) 7 Things You Should Know About … TM series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice.

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Metaari

Metaari

By David Vogt on May 10, 2014

*NB – Ambient Insight rebranded in 2017 to become “Metaari“.  Look for their research papers there…. Ambient Insight is an international market research firm that uses predictive analytics to identify revenue opportunities for global learning technology suppliers. Ambient Insight has been compiling country-by-country data on learning technology expenditures across seven regions of the globe since 2004. They […]

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22 Jul Posted on Farewell to Digital Textbooks says this Aussie school

Thanks for this, Sydney - Not surprising - although I would be concerned that staff preparation might be a significant issue here, as you can expect that the students themselves are more than comfortable with tablets. Too comfortable perhaps, but then that is a classroom management issue. I'm not saying that this is the case here, but the situation reminds me of the lobbying power of the textbook industry, which is not seeing the profit margins they used to with printed textbooks. Twenty years ago, when I was leading the implementation of a completely online middle school science curriculum, I was confronted by a province (unnamed) where the textbook publishers successfully lobbied to legislate a new education ministry ordinance that in order for any resource to be purchased by the province, the publisher would have to guarantee that the content would remain unchanged for at least five years. Sounds simple enough, and in spirit it was meaning to offer some quality assurance, but it was designed precisely to kill any online resource, at least any resource that used the power of the internet to continuously refresh and update content...

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Thanks for this, Sydney - Not surprising - although I would be concerned that staff preparation might be a significant issue here, as you can expect that the students themselves are more than comfortable with tablets. Too comfortable perhaps, but then that is a classroom management issue. I'm not saying that this is the case here, but the situation reminds me of the lobbying power of the textbook industry, which is not seeing the profit margins they used to with printed textbooks. Twenty years ago, when I was leading the implementation of a completely online middle school science curriculum, I was confronted by a province (unnamed) where the textbook publishers successfully lobbied to legislate a new education ministry ordinance that in order for any resource to be purchased by the province, the publisher would have to guarantee that the content would remain unchanged for at least five years. Sounds simple enough, and in spirit it was meaning to offer some quality assurance, but it was designed precisely to kill any online resource, at least any resource that used the power of the internet to continuously refresh and update content...

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Colleen - DavidP is grading A4, so he may have additional comments, but the main objective is for you to briefly and objectively (as possible) characterize your contribution to 522 in terms of ideas and thought leadership. Providing linked items to evidence your characterization will tie it all together. DavidV

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Colleen - DavidP is grading A4, so he may have additional comments, but the main objective is for you to briefly and objectively (as possible) characterize your contribution to 522 in terms of ideas and thought leadership. Providing linked items to evidence your characterization will tie it all together. DavidV

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8 Jun Posted on Eva’s Cafe: Innovative Value Propositions, Clashes & Fun exercises?

Extending your concept of "clash" a bit further, isn't that the basis of human creativity across art, science, business, relationships, etc? In science, which was my first love, there is a saying that, "the best measure of the greatness of any scientist is the amount of time she or he is able to impede the progress of science". Ideas are in constant minor motion, but great ideas are like intellectual earthquakes, able to suck up change-energy for decades or centuries. Disruptive new ideas often seem to work best with cognitive dissonance - a combination of two ideas that people are already comfortable with separately, but had never considered meshed together. Art that is 'arresting' of your attention usually works this way. That's the "Eureka!" moment that venture capitalists are looking for: a similarly arresting business model or product or service. Entrepreneurs need to showcase something in their venture that wakes people up with its originality, otherwise they'll be seen as part of the constant minor motion. Meshing up a new idea is tough enough, but it is usually even harder to find a way to communicate it compellingly. Images, stories, metaphors are your best tools for "crossing the chasm" of peoples' understanding and behaviour. Timing and luck play an important role. In human ideas, very much like plate tectonics, all kinds of invisible forces build tensions that can't even be measured until a major disruption happens when a single right idea occurs at the right place, at the right time.

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Extending your concept of "clash" a bit further, isn't that the basis of human creativity across art, science, business, relationships, etc? In science, which was my first love, there is a saying that, "the best measure of the greatness of any scientist is the amount of time she or he is able to impede the progress of science". Ideas are in constant minor motion, but great ideas are like intellectual earthquakes, able to suck up change-energy for decades or centuries. Disruptive new ideas often seem to work best with cognitive dissonance - a combination of two ideas that people are already comfortable with separately, but had never considered meshed together. Art that is 'arresting' of your attention usually works this way. That's the "Eureka!" moment that venture capitalists are looking for: a similarly arresting business model or product or service. Entrepreneurs need to showcase something in their venture that wakes people up with its originality, otherwise they'll be seen as part of the constant minor motion. Meshing up a new idea is tough enough, but it is usually even harder to find a way to communicate it compellingly. Images, stories, metaphors are your best tools for "crossing the chasm" of peoples' understanding and behaviour. Timing and luck play an important role. In human ideas, very much like plate tectonics, all kinds of invisible forces build tensions that can't even be measured until a major disruption happens when a single right idea occurs at the right place, at the right time.

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