The Media Services department at the University of Delaware was looking for a live streaming solution to help raise the profile of the school and keep students, parents, donors and alumni connected to the school activities, sports, and special events. More...

By Alexandra Heal and Jess Sartenaer. Our video was created for student TV, but was published by several national media outlets and sparked fierce debate. Which is precisely why we made it. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Young people aren’t skeptical of ‘fake news’
Brooke Donald-Stanford, Futurity, 2016/11/25

I've seen this story in various forms over the last few days. It's a natural follow-up to the meme that fake news swayed the U.S. election. There's just one problem with this line of thinking. Young people aren't the ones actually falling for fake news. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An open letter to editors of the New York Times (and most other American periodicals)
Daniel Willingham, 2016/09/13
When both Daniel Willingham and Joanne Jacobs storm the barricades over an article in the NY Times, I figure there's something to recommend it. And novelist Nicholson Baker's Fortress of Tedium is a light romp through his own education at the School Without Walls and the contrasting eyeball-drenching monotony of a more traditional school. More...