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Fantastic investment by the Academic eXchange for Information Environment and Strategy and the broader Japanese #HigherEd community to create the #OpenSource Technology Group.

Obviously I think their mission and work are applicable to other universities, systems, and consortia, but can anyone tell me why wouldn't other institutions want to invest similarly?

(Especially that last part on the slide?)

#EdTech #Educause #EdTechChat #HigherEducation

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Last day of #AXIES2023 and starting up with, "Utilizing #OpenSource software in LearningAnalytics," from the Open Source technology committee.

I've seen several @sakailms presentations, posters, and vendors. Also there's a nice bit of @moodle love here too!

#EdTech #HigherEd #Moodle #SakaiLMS #EdTechChat #OpenEdTech #HigherEducation

#opensource #edtech #highereducation #highered #moodle #axies2023 #sakailms #edtechchat #OpenEdTech @Moodle @Sakai LMS

totally agree! This is why I also want the #edtech apps we create in our #research labs to be free for all #teachers.
But maintaining #ApplicationsSoftware has a cost. Who will pay for this? 💰💰
I haven't quite figured it our yet... 🤔
#Research #edtech #applicationssoftware #teachers

Remember the breathless excitement about #Edtech a couple years back? The massive % user increases? The multibillion dollar pandemic investment frenzy? When edtech went Big EdTech? That bubble, predictably, is bursting. Coursera - the edtech bubble's exemplar case - is now cutting back #criticaledtech #edtechodon https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/coursera-becomes-latest-edtech-firm-announce-redundancies

Coursera becomes latest edtech firm to announce redundancies

One of the biggest original Mooc providers is ‘entering a new chapter’, its chief executive has told staff, amid a gloomier financial climate
Tom Williams (Times Higher Education (THE))
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And my final takeaway:

Teachers and IT staff have extra work to enable tools do their tasks:

There is a lack of interoperability

Tools are designed by software developers, without input from the actual users (no agile in #edtech?)
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My third takeaway:

Data is assumed to be helpful to improve student's education, without much criticism or reliance on actual results

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My second takeaway:

Teaching staff are not the ones who decide which tools can be useful:

Private schools need to pretend they are IT-savvy and thus update frequently to show they have all the latest and greatest bells and whistles

Public schools are part of the education department of their region, which makes decisions based on system-level logics rather than taking into account the individualities of schools

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Finished reading it. Very interesting indeed!

My first takeaway:

There is no single platform that schools can rely on: there are many tools they need

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Wow, this paper looks super interesting

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2022.2035395?af=R

A patchwork of platforms: mapping data infrastructures in schools, by Luci Pangrazio, Neil Selwyn & Bronwyn Cumbo

From the abstract:
This paper explores the significance of schools’ data infrastructures as a site of institutional power and (re)configuration

Taking an institutional perspective, the paper explores why digital technologies continue to complicate (rather than simplify) school processes and practices.

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