By Joshua Kim. It is tempting to want higher ed to be more like Uber. The fact that this is a really bad idea does not stop us from thinking it. Uber is such a transportation leap from taxis that we yearn for a similar leap in higher ed. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. We edtech people are suckers for the next big technology. Or at least I am.
Let me count the technologies that I was sure would ‘revolutionize’ education. Read more...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Faux Van Gogh and Pinot Grigio: The Rise of Paint-and-Sip Studios
Stephanie Russell-Kraft, Jezebel, 2016/01/01

I don't know whether this will ever become a theme in these pages, but it seems to me there is a big difference between living one's life actively and living it passively. And by living actively, what I mean is living by doing things - building stuff, making stuff, drawing stuff, writing stuff, programming stuff, whatever. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Trust and the On-Demand Economy
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, 2015/12/22
I know that the dominant story today is if "the shift of value from suppliers to consumers." We have seen the digitization of content, then the creation of consumer-generated content, then finally on-demand services like Uber and AirBnB, where consumer provide each other with everything from cars to houses. According to Irving Wladawsky-Berger this shift is made possible by trust. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Put Down Your Damn Cell Phones
Jadelin Pikake Felipe, Inside Higher Ed, 2015/12/21

The original title for this post was "Colleges need to teach healthy digital boundaries," which I guess wasn't click-bait enough for the IHE editors. More...

Ezbeez est une application mobile, vous pouvez y accéder à n’importe quel moment de votre journée, dans le bus ou depuis votre canapé. Voir l'article...