For years, we've been told that the higher education system is broken and its demise is near. EdTech companies and startups have responded to this doomsday scenario by offering promises of salvation and calls for disruptive innovation. Voices critical of corporate intrusion into higher education are often framed as resisting change. This panel will examine the forces calling for disruption from a pedagogically informed critical perspective and add a much needed faculty voice to the debate. - See more at: http://schedule.sxswedu.com/events/event_EDUP33336

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CorinneWeisgerber,Ph.D.
St.Edward’sUniversity
ShannanButler,Ph.D.
St.Edward’sUniversity
KaraLaskowski,Ph.D.
ShippensburgUniversity
KyleLongley,Ph.D.
ArizonaStateUniversity
SXSWedu 2015
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2. June11,2009
Pandemic
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5. Higher Ed
the
Swine Flu

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procedures&insufficienttesting
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Pharmaprofits:$7-10billion
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7. 2. Respondwithfast-tracked
procedures&insufficienttesting
Createcrisisbychangingdefinition
Provokewidespreadunjustifiedfear
1.
Wastehugesumsofpublic$
Pharmaprofits:$7-10billion
3.

8. It’s A Storm!
It’s a Tsumami!
It’s an Avalanche!

24. Personalizing learning

25. Personalizing learning

26. “You’renotjustanumber”
quantified
the
student

27. It’s not what you say,
it’s what they hear
-FrankLuntz-

28. W H A T W E
TALK ABOUT
W H E N W E
TALK ABOUT
EDUCATION
R e f o r m

29. -Or-
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discourse
of the education
reform movement

30. -Or-
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discourse
of the education
reform movement

32. universities

33. legislature
universities

34. corp
Reformers legislature
universities

35. corp
Reformers legislature
banks
universities

36. edtech
corp
Reformers legislature
banks
universities

37. edtech
corp
Reformers legislature
banks
universities
faculty

38. edtech
corp
Reformers legislature
banks
universities
faculty
students
parents

41. distractis

42. educational technology might be
best understood as akin to many
other faith systems – that is, a
“system of radical optimism” that
persists despite the lack of
immediate experience or evidence.
—NeilSelwyn

43. e c o n
omics
1 0 1

47. ?
corporate
r e f o r m

52. MISSION STATEMENT
WORD CLOUD

53. MISSION STATEMENT
WORD CLOUD

54. MISSION STATEMENT
WORD CLOUD

55. PRIVATE PUBLIC PROFIT ED TECH
MISSION STATEMENTS
OF TOP INSTITUTIONS

56. PRIVATE PUBLIC PROFIT ED TECH
MISSION STATEMENTS
RESEARCH & TEACHING VS.
CONTENT & LEARNING

57. PRIVATE PUBLIC PROFIT ED TECH
MISSION STATEMENTS
RESEARCH & TEACHING VS.
CONTENT & LEARNING
X
X
X
X

58. PRIVATE PUBLIC PROFIT ED TECH
MISSION STATEMENTS
COMMUNITY VS. INDIVIDUAL

59. PRIVATE PUBLIC PROFIT ED TECH
MISSION STATEMENTS
COMMUNITY VS. INDIVIDUAL

60. community
service
citizen
humanity
society
knowledge

61. community
service
citizen
humanity
society
career
data
points
human
capital
skillsPersonal
content
knowledge

63. U.S. has the
b e s t
universities
in the world

66. a c c r e d i t i n g o r g a n i z a t i o n s w a n t
assessments of student learning
o u t c o m e s; s t a t e a g e n c i e s w a n t
assessments to prove that tax dollars
a r e b e i n g s p e n t e f f i c i e n t l y ;
institutions want internal assessments
that they can use to demonstrate
success to their own constituencies
—ChristopherB.Nelson

69. It’s no trick to
if all you want is to
make a lot of money.
make a lot of money.

70. It’s no trick to
if all you want is to
increase graduation rates.
increase graduation rates.

71. It’s no trick to
if all you want is to
complete on-time loans.
complete on-time loans.

72. It’s no trick to
if all you want is to
increase student evals.
increase student evals.

73. It’s no trick to
if all you want is to
retain students.
retain students.

74. It’s no trick to
if all you want is to
raise test scores.
raise test scores.

75. It’s no trick to
if all you want is to
reform higher ed.
make a lot of money.

76. The reformers…view students as “human
capital” or “assets.” One seldom sees any
reference in their literature or public
declarations to the importance of
developing full persons to assume the
responsibilities of citizenship.
—DianeRavitch

77. edtech
corp
Reformers legislature
banks
universities
faculty
students
parents

78. edtech
corp
Reformers legislature
banks
universities
faculty
students
parents
Flipping the
disruption