Creating the future starts with envisioning it.
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.
Podcast Interview by VC Matt Greenfield
In which Matt Greenfield asks very good questions and I talk. A lot.
There’s a Layer in Between Learning Content and Learning Analytics
This post explores an important aspiration of the collaboration between CMU OLI and ASU ETX on building a new courseware platform.
Next Blursday Social: Co-author of The College Stress Test
We’re going to talk with Susan Baldridge about the changes that campuses are facing and how they can better surmount the challenges together.
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