Hack (Higher) Education
How new technologies can hack [higher] education, and how learners of all sorts can hack technology back.
How new technologies can hack [higher] education, and how learners of all sorts can hack technology back.
December 13, 2012 - 9:55pm
Part 2 of my year-end look at the important trends in ed-tech. This one: The Maker Movement (and the trend that, quite frankly, makes me most hopeful for the future)
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December 12, 2012 - 6:38pm
The first in my year-end review, examining the major trends in ed-tech this year. Up first: the business of ed-tech
November 14, 2012 - 8:18pm
I don't get it. I don't understand the lure of the educational tablet. I say this, of course, as someone who relies heavily on her laptop every day and who just couldn't make an iPad "work" the same way. What are we missing out by pushing tablets onto students? (Or, conversely, what am I missing out by being so skeptical about them?)
November 6, 2012 - 1:17pm
A few thoughts on how venture capital investment works -- and doesn't work -- to fund open education projects.
October 23, 2012 - 10:57pm
The killer apps for education, argued Stanford University professor John Willinsky at last week’s Open Education Conference, will be built when we apply our lessons to our communities “so that the learning I do in school contributes to the public library and to the public knowledge of my community” — so that open education remains open.
