Presented by Eric Wingall, On Teaching Online

Educational trends and the future of education are one in the same, so he won't refer to them separate them anymore.

"Why Most Things Fail" by Paul Ormerod.

College tuition and fees have risen 440% since 1982-84, compared to medical care at 251%, consumer price index at 108%

ies: National Center for Educational Statistics/Projects of Educational Statistics to 2019.

Qualities of 

• desirable
• valuable
• credible
• useful
• findable
• accessible
• usable
• worthwhile

"Everybody is a special needs student, including you, in some way or form." So stop talking about accessibility like some bolt-on.

Resources out there: Wikiversity; open university; MIT's open courseware; open courseware consortium; 

McGraw Hill > Pearson

Force multipliers in online education:

• Moore's Law of doubling computing power every 14 months at the same cost
• Roger's Diffusion of Innovations
• Network effect (size of network)
• Personal connections (nodes)
• Getting rid of hurdles (ease of use)

 "Amazon University" (not built by Amazon.com) will be threat to all higher ed.  Will evaluate all things about you as a student and use an algorithm to determine what would be best for you as a student (e.g. a course, a training, a placement exam, a tutorial, a session or several sessions with an expert, etc.).  Western Governors' University comes closest to this.

Recommendations:

• Connect with professionals who share passions
• go with brands you know
• start and end every course with an assessment
• develop content outside of the LMS
• measure your effectiveness
• command your career; don't let an LMS, bureaucracy, department chair run your career for you

Teaching skills

• Teaching skills in priority order
  1. Designer
     1. Planning
     2. Designing
     3. Producing
     4. Evaluating
  2. Producer
  3. Assessor/Evaluator
     • Assessment methods and techniques
     • Testing: content, process, context (did the students learn the stuff?)
     • Evaluation: strategic, operational, individual (does the system work?)
     • Reflection and extension: PR, accountability & steering the boat
  4. Researcher
• Evidence-based teaching learning program
• Information design