The pandemic forced us to face how fragmented digital learning experiences often are. Why is it still so hard to do better?
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Upcoming Blursdays (6/3 and 6/10): John Whitmer and Matthew Rascoff
In my continuing tradition of inviting guests who are a lot smarter than me, our next two Blursday guests always challenge me and will challenge you too if come join us. This week (6/3) will be John Whitmer or, as he was affectionately called when he led learning analytics work at Blackboard, Dr. John. John […]
Upcoming Blursday Socials: Anthropologist Lauren Herckis and SEI Ventures’ Matt Tower
An anthropologist and a venture capitalist walk into a bar….
Upcoming Blursday Guests: SEI Ventures’ Matt Tower, NYU’s Lucy Appert, and 2U’s Chip Paucek
Democratizing the EdTech conference party.
Upcoming Blursdays: Dan Avida, Paul LeBlanc, and Matt Tower
We have a great group of featured guests coming to our Blursday Socials this month: Engageli CEO Dan Avida (4/15 at 4 PM ET): Engageli has gotten quite a bit of press (including from me) about its promising approach to creating a synchronous active learning experience that’s quite distinct from traditional web conferencing experiences. CEO […]
Punctated. Equalibrium? (The Post and the 4/1 Blursday Social!)
My partner Curtiss Barnes and I have been thinking a lot about punctuated equilibrium and how it might apply to post-pandemic education. We’re going to be both writing about it and having occasional Blursday Socials about it (starting this Blursday, 4/1). This post tees up both series. The basic idea Punctuated equilibrium is an idea […]
Skill Building this Blursday (3/25) with Anita Delahay
Ready to have all of your future-or-education prescriptions upended? EdTech industry veteran and learning design expert Anita Delahay just defended her dissertation in Experimental Psychology on a fascinating topic. She found that first- and second-year college students often gained more benefit from adjacent courses than from direct prerequisites. For example, a student in a second-semester […]