An NMC Horizon Project

The Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2013-2018.

Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math Education (STEM).

NMC is a product of collaboration between innovation organizations.

The group engages in a dialog and discussions about potential applications of emerging technologies.

Learning Analytics

Massive Open Online Courses

Learning analytics research uses data analysis to inform decisions made on every tier of the educational system.

Massive open online courses are proliferating, especially in STEM Disciplines

Analytics leverages student data

• To build better pedagogies

• Target at-risk student populations

• Assess whether programs designed to improve retention have been effective

MOOCs

• Need to be rethought as open ongoing connectivist communities

• For open teaching and open research

Connectivism

• Refers to a model of learning

• Where Social and Cultural interactions are the focus

• Individuals bring their own personal work experience and knowledge to the environment

• To continuously expand the ecosystem of learning.

Open teaching and research are new concepts

That could leverage this notion of crowdsourcing and collective intelligence

To build new pedagogies and practices

References

The Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2013-2018 (2013). An NMC Horizon Project Sector Analysis. The New Media Consortium. Retrieved October 19, 2013 From http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports