Techno-News Blog. We find ourselves locked into interminable text chats with breezy automated bank tellers and offer our mother’s maiden name to a variety of robotic speakers that sound plausibly alive. More...
Should students be allowed to use cellphones in class? It depends.
Techno-News Blog. Some educators embrace phones in class as a way to boost learning, allowing access to endless information and incorporating devices in school in a world that now relies on them. More...
Measuring the Value of Digital Credentials (Part Two): The Role of Efficiency in Delivering Agility
Techno-News Blog. With their increased granularity, transparency and portability, digital credentials are quickly supplanting the paper certificate as a means of non-degree skills verification in leading-edge continuing and professional education units. More...
Students protest Zuckerberg-backed digital learning program and ask him: ‘What gives you this right?’
Techno-News Blog. Students at a New York high school have protested in recent weeks an online education program developed with engineers working for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the latest challenge to the growing “personalized learning” movement in U.S. education. More...
Reach of the edX.org and Open edX Platform In Numbers
Techno-News Blog. EdX has attracted 40,000 credit-elegible learners, according to the data disclosed at the 2018 Global Forum Event in Boston. More...
The Future Of Learning? Well, It’s Personal
Techno-News Blog. It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned. More...
Beyond disruption: The future of higher education
Techno-News Blog. Universities are in the middle of a transformation that is challenging the status quo and is forcing higher-ed leaders to embrace change if they wish to remain relevant. More...
Providence High students embrace online learning days
Techno-News Blog. While the college preparatory services offered by Providence High School are generally geared toward the classroom, the co-educational Catholic school offered its students a different type of university feel recently. More...
More colleges are using the blockchain for student records
Techno-News Blog. ECPI University, a for-profit college based in Virginia, is among the latest colleges to offer verification of student degrees via blockchain, according to The Roanoke Times, which notes that Virginia Tech is “in the early stages” of considering a similar offering. More...
How Educators Can Raise Their Digital IQ
Techno-News Blog. Digital IQ is a relatively new term that signifies how well an organization is utilizing their technological resources. A school system might use a digital IQ to measure their proficiency with the tablets, laptops, and software used in the blended classroom. More...