By Paul Fain. Predictions of doom for hidebound colleges have been less common during sessions at the conference. Instead, attendees are focused on job training and the skills gap, challenges most think offer opportunities for both technology-focused start-ups and the more nimble segments of higher education. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. University of Rochester professors found out their emails were reviewed and shared, raising questions of how much privacy faculty members should be assured. More...
College Registrar Creates the ‘Yelp’ of Higher-Education Software
Megan O'Neil, The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog, January 13, 2014
Readers will be forgiven if they don't know what the Yelp of Yelp is. The story says "Education technology now has its own version of popular, user-generated review sites like Yelp and Amazon." How popular is Yelp? It's popular enough that you can get restaurant reviews for many of Moncton's eateries - not bad for a small Canadian city. More...
We Didn’t Eat the Marshmallow. The Marshmallow Ate Us
Michael Bourne, New York Times, January 13, 2014
Pretty good post that outlines and examines the merit of the famous marshmallow experiment (kids are put in a room and told they can eat one now or two later - follow-yup study shows the kids who deferred gratification proved to be much more successful in later life). More...
Techno-News Blog. In our latest guest post from Jeremy Epstein, he takes a high-level view of Switzerland’s decentralized governance model, which gives us a sneak peek into what blockchain-based governance may enable at global scale. Ethereum is the world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, with a total market cap of $75 billion dollars. More...
Techno-News Blog. TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) formed in 1984, and since then, its series of short videos have revolutionized motivational speeches and the technology. With the click of a button, you can access powerful speeches that will make you help you embrace change and new ideas. More...
Techno-News Blog. As an education blogger, its hard to keep up with the latest social media trends, especially when it comes to hashtags. I am sure that all educators who use social media can relate to this. More...
Techno-News Blog. It’s been more than a decade since a small group of professors at Dawson College started to experiment with active learning. Today, those early initiatives have evolved into a movement that’s transforming the way teachers teach and students learn. More...
Techno-News Blog. There is this constant and misguided thought of technology as a replacement for teachers. Technology acts in one of two ways. One, it helps students in ways that teachers alone would not be able to, for example, on Toppr experts solve doubts for students at 4am, unthinkable without the platform. More...
Techno-News Blog. Asynchronous discussions and group projects are the most important techniques currently used for online learning, according to a new survey of online education leaders from Quality Matters and Eduventures Research. More...
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