I don’t always agree with my employer’s political stances, but this is one that makes me proud: Thanks to Jane Snyder for pointing this out to me.
Social Learning Tools Are Fine, But Not Critical For All Educational Models
We are in a high point of investment and interest in the application of technology to innovate education, and a lot of attention has been paid to the new class of learning platforms that have social tools at the center of the platform design – think Instructure, Coursekit, OpenClass, etc. I have written about several […]
Great Title, Flawed Post – Khan Academy Enables Out-of-the-Box Approaches
There was a very interesting article at Huffington Post today that I suspect is rapidly making the rounds through the blogosphere. Given the author and title of the post, “What Silicon Valley Executives Keep Getting Wrong About Education” by Dr. Keith Devlin of Stanford, I had high hopes for an insightful explanation of mistakes by […]
My UnKeynote
NERCOMP is holding an unconference on the LMS in Worcester, MA on March 5th. I will be delivering the unkeynote on the unLMS. Since it is an unkeynote, I will tell the audience nothing important about the LMS, instead relying on them to have more of the answers than I do. In other words, it’s […]
Guest Blog at WCET: Institutional Decision-Making and Changing LMS Market
Today I had a guest post at WCET’s blog. WCET is a great organization that “accelerates the adoption of effective practices and policies, advancing excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education”. They have been leaders in sharing best practices for online education, including taking a leading role on explaining State Authorization regulations as well as […]
Apple and Textbooks, Part 2: Is There a Class In This Text?
When Apple announced both the release of their iBooks 2 and upgrades to iTunes University, I was curious to see what kind of integration they had between the two. If you do a web search on the subject, you will find plenty of articles that tell you that iBooks textbooks “fully integrate with” iTunes U—but […]
Webinar on Textbooks
I just wanted to drop a quick note to point out that the always interesting Rob Reynolds will be running a webinar on the future of the textbook on Friday. Here are the deets: The Future of Digital Textbooks in U.S. Education (And What That Means for You) Date: Friday, February 10 Time: 1:00 CST […]