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.
July 2, 2012 - 11:12pm
The promise of "badges" and other new forms of credentialing is that they'll help give a boost to those who do not have college diplomas or other forms of official recognition for their skills or knowledge. But will badges and the like really be able to live up to that promise?
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June 28, 2012 - 9:27pm
My response to Joshua Kim's story yesterday about the lack of education-related news at Google IO.
June 21, 2012 - 3:35pm
UNow announced today that it has raised $17.5 million in funding. Some thoughts on for-profits, new for-profits, new higher ed models, and higher ed mythologies.
June 14, 2012 - 9:39pm
The learning management system startup Instructure unveiled a learning analytics feature for its Canvas platform this week at InstructureCon, its (now) annual user conference.
June 13, 2012 - 9:21pm
It's been several months now since I cleaned all the tech blogs out of my RSS reader, a process that I talked about here. Needless to say, I haven't added them back. I'm experimenting with Prismatic, a social news discovery app instead.
