We’re going to talk with Susan Baldridge about the changes that campuses are facing and how they can better surmount the challenges together.
Big Picture
The "Big Picture" category covers larger trends and topics that influence both the problems that technology can help address in education as well as the barriers to implementing high-quality technology-supported education. This includes research-based topics such as learning science and program effectiveness studies, philosophical discussions such as outcomes definitions, and macro-forces such as government policy, markets, and business models.
Some Changes will be Permanent
Back in July, I wrote an uncharacteristically clickbait-y post about the possibility that Elon Musk’s Space-X Starlink might deliver rural broadband everywhere in North America this year. I got mocked a little, which I expected. It’s usually hard to separate the hype from the genuine revolutions. Well, here we are in October, and Starlink is […]
Reports of Higher Education’s Death Have Been Moderately Exaggerated
This crisis is survivable, but there will be pain, and there could easily be preventable institutional mortalities.
The Billion Dollar EdTech Platform Hole
Actually, make those plural: billions, holes
The ASU-hosted REMOTE Summit Has 22K+ Registrants—and no Press Coverage
The higher ed press has treated technology-enabled education as a side show. But it’s not a side show anymore. It’s the show.
Could Elon Musk Solve Education’s Rural Broadband Problem This Year?
I wouldn’t trust him to name my baby, but I might trust him to make something technologically crazy to work in an unreasonable time frame.
e-Literate Live! Event on the ASU-hosted REMOTE Conference Next Week
Come learn about the massive and free virtual conference for helping people teach online and give your input into what should come next.