By Stefanie Botelho. As CIO of the Purdue University system, as well as vice president for information technology, he knows that bringing technology to teaching requires a delicate balance. While it can simplify some processes, it still can’t replace what he calls “the learning moment.” More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Reporting on past performance and monitoring real-time activity are useful to demonstrate success. But so much more can be done with digital analytics. Predictive analytics can help college teams make better decisions by forecasting probable outcomes—as has long been done in other industries. More...
By MOORHEAD – If Jeremy Johnson attended Minnesota State University Moorhead today instead of 15 years ago, he “absolutely” would want to download a mobile application the school is developing. More...
By Erin Bedford. I was lucky enough to be gifted an iPad mini for Christmas this year, and I’ve spent some time over the holiday break trying to figure out the best apps and tablet practices to make this technology work for me. While using a tablet to grade student papers is handy, I am most interested in using this tablet for research purposes. From reading and annotating articles, to reading ebooks, to accessing my research databases, to decluttering my office, I want this tablet to work as a research tool. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. How can it be that Apple is having problems in higher ed? What percentage of your faculty, staff, and students use a Mac? How many have an iPhone? I’m typing this blog on a MacBook Air, maybe you are reading it on an iPad. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. In Silicon Valley Turns Its Eye to Education, the NYTimes reports that venture firms invested $1.87 billion in 2014 in edtech companies. This figure is up 55% from the previous year, and is the highest since the sector started to be tracked in 2009. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Before we discuss the Sony DPTS1 let’s talk about paper. Paper comes from wood. Wood comes from trees. To get clear on this process go ahead and watch this one minute and 37 second video on YouTube on how paper is made. If you are particularly ambitious, or just really geeky, you can join me in watching this 13:21 video The Paper Making Process. Or you could watch the How Its Made segment on copy paper, starting at the 1:24 mark and going to 6:03. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. The pace of change in technology is widening the gap between early adopter institutions and those struggling to keep up, Educause's report on the top IT issues and strategies for 2015 shows. Some IT leaders say it's time for colleges and universities to accept that they won't be able to do everything on their own. Read more...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology in History
Jason Schmitt, Huffington Post, 2015/01/06
According to this article, academic journals are out of date and overpriced. "A better approach to academic publishing is to cut out the whole notion of publishing. We don't really need journals as traditionally conceived. More...
By Audrey Watters. It's the time of year for predictions: what will the next twelve months hold for education technology.
I generally try to shy away from making predictions (okay, confession: I wrote one for Educating Modern Learners this week). I'm much better at analyzing what's happened and why than at forecasting what's going to happen. More...
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