[Note – an earlier version of the first half of this post was first published at Mike’s Hapgood site. We asked him to make some alterations for the e-Literate audience and republish here. – ed] Indie Rock and Donald Trump I drive my oldest daughter to high school every day. She goes to a magnet […]
Some Real Reasons the “Two-speed Internet” Hurts Higher Education (Hint: impact on the “Next Facebook” is not one of them)
The debate around net neutrality so far has been almost as depressing as the set of judicial and administrative decisions that got us here. Central to the debate has been the obsession about how the two-speed internet will “stop the next Facebook/Google/Netflix” from being able to innovate. Save the Internet does a bit better than […]
Efficacy, Education, and the Last Mile
I’ve been thinking quite a bit recently about efficacy in education in light of the Pearson realignment. Is efficacy, a medical concept, a good lens through which to view our current educational technology challenges? Michael Feldstein laid out some reasons it might be in his treatment of the shift, but I’d like to expand on […]
Opportunities and Predictions, 2014 A.D.
I make fun of predictions all the time (see, for example, Education Analysts Have Predicted 7 of the last 0 Mobile Revolutions). But heck, why not jump in? Here’s how I see the world. Mostly, being in a field doesn’t give you predictive powers — it just makes you aware of where the real opportunities […]
Purdue Course Signals Data Issue Explainer
The “Course Signals” story originally covered here has recently gone international, with Britain’s prestigious Times Higher Education magazine picking up the Inside Higher Ed story and publishing it as an “Editor’s Pick”. Hopefully this will push the Course Signals team to answer questions asked of them nearly two months ago, questions that have still not been satisfactorily […]
Educational Technology and the Sources of Innovation
Based on Jon Udell’s excellent post, I spent the weekend getting reacquainted with work of Eric von Hippel, the researcher who pioneered the study of user-driven innovation. What’s interesting about von Hippel is that his research hits on the common themes of the open education movement, but does so in a slightly different key. Briefly, there are […]