Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. When smartphones and tablets become one: the use of apps to deliver the training of the future suggests that as well as overcoming possible cost barriers, old attitudes and connectivity issues, objections around screen size will also go away. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A good way to build a large user base is to offer something valuable for free. That’s been the strategy so far behind Codecademy. In just a few short years since its inception in 2011, the company has grown into one of the world’s largest online learning platforms, with more than 24 million users. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The traffic LinkedIn drives to publishers has dropped 44 percent this year
Lucia Moses, Digiday, 2015/08/28
LinkedIn is the latest social network platform to shift its emphasis on keeping people in its sandbox. "LinkedIn used to be a steady referral source for many publishers. But that’s changed as the social network for professionals has prioritized its own media and its contributor network. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Educational Innovation as a Verb, Not a Noun
Thomas Carey, Inside Higher Ed, 2015/08/28
To me this is old news because the model has been repeated frequently inside NRC to describe the organizational changes we've undertaken over the last few years. But it's worth posting this link because it's a lucid account from someone close to the source and because it describes a trend coming to an institution near you. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Data, Technology, and the Great Unbundling of Higher Education
Ryan Craig, Allison Williams, EDUCAUSE Review, 2015/08/28
Unlike the dull-as-dishwater set of priorities listed by Kenneth Green, this post has some more exciting projections about the future of technology in higher education. But it should be noted that this comes at a cost - a crisis in traditional institutions, a crisis that has been slow to develop but is now approach a crest. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Beginning the Fourth Decade of the "IT Revolution" in Higher Education: Plus Ça Change
Kenneth C. Green, EDUCAUSE Review, 2015/08/27
For many reasons which are off topic to this newsletter, I don't think productivity is the measure we should use to assess the impact of computer technology. Productivity is the measure of the old economy. And I'm not sure I agree with these priorities as reported in EDUCAUSE Review, but I feel duty-bound to report them. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why millennials are ditching university, and what it means for the workplace
Mandy Gilbert, Financial Post, 2015/08/25
OK, this is an opinion piece in the Financial Post, which is not exactly noted for well-researched opinion pieces. But the summary in Academica captures not just the article but the trend itself really well. More...
By Jennifer Polk. I knew pretty early in graduate school that I didn’t want to go the traditional researcher/professor track. I loved research and writing, but I knew that the pressures of the academic life would not be good for my long-term wellbeing. More...
By Asleigh Vanhouten. Author of a new open textbook discusses how faculty instructors can deal with the changing digital environment. More...
By Andrew A. White. Earlier this week I saw this anonymous blog post titled “Why Archaeology Needs a Divorce from Anthropology” that seems to argue that archaeology and anthropology do not work well and play nicely together and should therefore be split apart. The idea of “irreconcilable differences” among the sub-fields is not a new one. I’m sure the observations in the “divorce” post resonate with a lot of people. More...
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