By Phil Hill. In an article Michael and I wrote for EDUCAUSE Review in 2016, we described our view of personalized learning as "a family of teaching practices that are intended to help reach students in the metaphorical back row". One of the key practices focused on gaining increased visibility into student coursework. More...
By Phil Hill. There is an article in EdWeek that quotes Larry Berger, CEO of Amplify, in his "confession" about personalized learning. More...
In 1906, Englishman J. J. Thompson challenged the scientific community’s understanding of the atom with his “plum pudding” theory. The model ultimately led to scientific evidence of the first subatomic particle, the electron. More...
The hiring and onboarding processes can be extremely complex for colleges and universities. Higher-education institutions often bring in hundreds of new employees every year—from professors to student workers to administrators to dining service personnel. More...
Amazon's rejection of Michigan as a finalist for its second headquarters is a wake-up call for what types of communities will prosper in the near and distant future — and they are the ones who prize and support post-secondary education. More...
I teach at a big state university, and I often receive emails from software companies offering to help me do a basic part of my job: figuring out what my students have learned. More...
Pupils and Porn and Games, Oh My
Well, what did they think would happen when they gave their students total freedom with their laptops? That they would download math refresher courses or Spanish upgrading. More...
Elementary Art Lessons
Sure, the title may say elementary art lessons, but for people who don't know much about art (but know what they like), this is a great resource. Want something a little more advanced. More...
Linking Their Thinking
When most people think of the future of learning, they think of things like online learning or technology supported classrooms. This article, a lengthy but very very well written description of the MIT's media lab, should shake those preconceptions. More...
The Parsimony of the Explicit
I think there's something important happening in this article but I'm not quite sure I can put a finger on it. Elearningpost summarized it as follows: "David Weinberger: Most Web designers try to control the users? experience. Some try to shape it. And a precious few try to become that experience." That's not bad, but it misses the fact that most of the article is a response against a view proposed by the W3C's Charles Munat to the effect that, "a web site is data, relationships among data, and transformations that may be applied to that data. More...
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