Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Not too long ago, tablets and smartphones were largely viewed as educational scourges — mere distractions responsible for dulling minds and derailing productivity. More...
4 août 2015
4 août 2015
Year One With a 3D Printer: 17 Tips
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The 3D printing industry is expected to exceed $21 billion by 2020. Classrooms are joining in. Kelly Hines’ fifth-grade classroom is redesigning a prosthetic hand. More...
4 août 2015
NMC Horizon Report: Tech Solutions Must Support Shift to Deeper Learning Approaches
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. In a June 29 special session at the annual ISTE Conference in Philadelphia, the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) released the 6th annual NMC Horizon Report K-12 Edition, describing emerging technologies that are likely to have the most impact on teaching and learning. More...
4 août 2015
Apple Watch, wearable technology raising cheating fears at universities
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The Apple Watch is being banned in universities and standardized testing centers worldwide to prevent cheating. The Apple Watch, along with other wearable technology, is forcing a number of universities and colleges to institute bans on the technology to curb potential cheating on exams and tests. More...
4 août 2015
A Failed iOS to Android Switching Story
By Joshua Kim. My wife tried to switch from iOS to Android. She failed.
The motivator for the attempted switch was handwriting. She wanted to be able to take handwritten notes on her phone. Notes. Calendar entries. Lists. She tried to switch to the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Read more...
4 août 2015
Why Consumer Technologies Cloud Our Thinking About Higher Education
By Joshua Kim. Consumer technologies and higher education feel like they should be closely related. The tools are now largely the same.
We use the same laptop for connecting with online communities and managing our finances as we use to teach online and blended courses. Read more...
4 août 2015
Technology Is Not A Differentiator
By Joshua Kim. Technology in education gets way too much attention. There is a huge (and growing) gap between the hype of what technology can do for higher education, and the reality of what technology has actually accomplished. Read more...
4 août 2015
Competition and Sharing in Learning Technology
By Joshua Kim. Learning technology is a networked discipline. Our community is small. Careers tend to be long. Over the length of our professional lifetimes we get to know our colleagues at other institutions really well. Our learning technology community is highly motivated to understand what our peers are doing. Read more...
4 août 2015
The 2000 Britannica.com Super Bowl Ad
By Joshua Kim. The Britannica.com Super Bowl ad “Questions” ran in the 3rd quarter of the 2000 Super Bowl.
You can watch the 30 second ad here. Read more...
4 août 2015
“How Music Got Free”
By Joshua Kim. How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry,the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Witt.
I thought that I knew the music industry disruption story. If you had asked me before I read the amazing How Music Got Free what killed the record labels and the record stores (remember Tower Records), I would have given a 3 part answer. Read more...
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