The phrase “empowering educators” is a cliché that usually doesn’t mean much. We could use the language of business—as I have—to describe educators as knowledge workers and think about optimizing their workflows to reduce the amount of time they spend on low-value tasks and increase their opportunities to apply their expert judgment to high-value tasks. […]
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.
New Post About the Blended Future of College on the Argos Blog
How can we create engaging, meaningful educational experiences that will bring students back to college?
On Defeating Inevitability
Sometimes “inevitability” is just a failure of imagination.
A Flight to Quality in EdTech Venture Capital?
How can investors identify quality when they see it?
EEP is BACK! Relatedly, Blursday is on Engageli this Week
Let’s get back to work together!
Argos: Making Good Course Design Easy and Fun
How courseware could work with real product/market fit in mind.
Argos: Upcycling Course Design
The reason that courseware has disappointed as a product category is that we failed to understand the product/market fit of the paper textbook.