By Joshua Kim. What do we mean when we talk about the “edtech community”?
Who are the people that we are talking about? Where do they work? What are the jobs that they do. Read more...
4 Values That EdTech Leaders Should Champion
By Joshua Kim. "If we look at teaching from a foundation of values, rather than the surface-level of methods, there is a shorter path we could follow if we really care about student learning”.
John Warner, We Don't Need a 'Revolution' to Improve Teaching. Read more...
Why EdTech Is A Good, But Not Great, Business
By Joshua Kim. "The ASU GSV Summit, where investors and start-ups frolic…."
Scenes From Ed-Tech Heaven (or Hell) by Doug Lederman.
I’ve never attended the ASU GSV Summit, and 2016 was no exception. Read more...
3 Learning Tech Observations From a Week Of College Visits
By Joshua Kim. Last week my wife and I accompanied our younger daughter (11th grade) on college visits.
7 (small liberal arts) colleges in 6 days. 1,700 miles driven. Inspiring. Exhilarating. Exhausting. Read more...
Is Your Econ Dept Celebrating ‘Narconomics’?
By Joshua Kim. This is not how a university Economics Departments work. A terrific nonfiction book aimed at a general audience that builds on the principals of the discipline is published. (In this case, economics). Read more...
A SWOT Analysis of the MIT Online Learning Report
By Joshua Kim. MIT report - Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms
I’ve had a few days to think about the MIT Online Education report. While I’m (respectfully) critical of some of the content, I do feel that this is a potentially important document in our emerging learning science / organizational change discipline. Read more...
Online Education as a Catalyst for Organizational Change?
By Joshua Kim. Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms The Final Report from MIT's Open Education Policy Initiative.
“...learning-science-based online education (including the blended model) is disrupting the existing higher education teaching paradigm". Read more...
Should Instructional Designers Be Called ‘Learning Engineers’?
By Joshua Kim. How many of you spent some of your weekend, like me, reading the MIT report - Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms. Read more...
Collegiate Sports and Noise
By Joshua Kim. Who made the decision that loud music should be played each time the action stops at live sporting events?
And why has this practice migrated to the collegiate level - where standard practice across the nation now seems to be to blast music between periods and innings, during halftime, and sometimes even during timeouts. Read more...
Throwing Rocks at ‘Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus’
By Joshua Kim. In Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Rushkoff posits that our current economic system is analogous to a buggy operating system. What is needed is a new economic OS, one written to benefit consumers (citizens) rather capital holders. In Rushkoff’s view, wage stagnation and unemployment and economic insecurity are not bugs of the current economic system, but features. Read more...