By Joshua Kim. Were you among the 7,500 edtech nerds who descended on Indianapolis for EDUCAUSE 2015? How was your trip home? What do you think was the big theme of this year’s conference? What new ideas and practices are you bringing back to your campus. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. That would be 7,000 plus educational technology professionals actually putting down their phones long enough to read a book. (Unless you are like me, and read the book on your phone). Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Every year I come to EDUCAUSE, and every year the Exhibitor Floor seems to get bigger. The booths seem to get flashier. The presentations get louder. The screens are bigger. The colors are brighter. The swag gets fancier. Read more...
By . Yes, they’re coming for our jobs. But we’ll have the last laugh.
The social-media hive mind recently took a break from circulating humorous cat videos and set out on a new path: circulating humorous robot videos. In many ways, the robots were simply picking up where the cats had left off. More...
By Ellen Wexler. In the first half of 2015, venture-capital funding in ed tech totaled well over $1 billion. CB Insights, which tracks investments in private companies, puts the number at $1.4 billion. EdSurge, an education-technology reporting website, estimates that the investments total $1.6 billion. More...
By David Smith. Affordable high-quality animations may mark the death of stodgy PowerPoint presentations. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. No More Pencils, No More Books
Will Oremus, Slate, 2015/10/28
Good article with a lot of detail (and more than a little breathless enthusiasm) on adaptive learning software. "While the thinkers are arguing," writes Oremus, "textbook publishers are acting. With their traditional business models under pressure, they’ve begun to reinvent themselves as educational technology companies." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning -agogy Overload
Matt Crosslin, EduGeek Journal, 2015/10/23
I sort of rolled my eyes when I first heard the term 'androgogy' (this would be back in the early 90s) not so much because I couldn't see how teaching adults might be different from teaching children but because I couldn't see why the term 'pedagogy' couldn't just be expanded to include all forms of teaching. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning and the World of “Apps”
TeachOnline.ca, 2015/10/22
The focus of this post is a report published last March from McGraw-Hill Education, The Impact of Technology on College Student Study Habits, which "found that 81% of US college students use mobile devices to study." You can see their video, "SmartBook Made Success Possible". More...
Par Frédéric Duriez. Comment redonner du pouvoir aux apprenants ? Fernand Oury, instituteur militant du XXème siècle nous donne quelques pistes très utiles et concrètes pour sortir d'une école enfermée dans des rapports hiérarchiques... Mais cet article aborde aussi quelques solutions plus contemporaines, en suivant l'Université de médecine de Caen, et son utilisation innovante des tablettes. Voir l'article...
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