Vernier Software & Technology and LabArchives have partnered to streamline the data-collection process for higher education students. New system features allow students to directly export data from Vernier Logger Pro software to LabArchives Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN), whereas previously students had to save the file locally and manually upload it. More...
Extreme Networks unveils flow-based 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless solution
Extreme Networks, Inc. has expanded its wireless portfolio with high-density 802.11ac Wave 2 access points (APs) to address the network demands driven by mobility, smart devices and the rapidly expanding wireless enabled internet of things (IoT). More...
QS LEAP offers students free test preparation
QS Quacquarelli Symonds have recently launched the new hybrid learning platform QS LEAP (Learn and Prepare with Friends). It is designed to allow applicants from across the globe to prepare for the GMAT, GRE, SAT, and LSAT – all for free. More...
‘The Future of Work’ at the Intersection of Learning & Technology
By Joshua Kim. The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization by Jacob Morgan. Published in August of 2014.
Are you in an edtech leadership role? Is there anything that you spend more of your time and energy on than the people in your organization?
The work at the intersection of learning and technology is people intensive. Read more...
3 Web Project Lessons
By Joshua Kim. I am not an expert on the web. I might know a thing or two about online learning, but the two (web projects and online learning) have very little to do with each other.
Online learning and web projects are like hockey and figure skating. They both take place on the ice, but it is there that the similarities end. Read more...
9 Tech Gifts That I Don’t Want
By Joshua Kim. What tech gifts do you hope not to get this holiday season?
And what does my current tech crankiness mean for my edtech career. Read more...
11 EdTech Advances That Will Not Happen by 2020
By Joshua Kim. What are are the educational technologies that are perpetually “just around the corner?”
Which edtech advances do we constantly hear about as “imminent”, but that always seem to fail to arrive. Read more...
Is Understaffing the New EdTech Normal?
By Joshua Kim. This fall I’ve been having lots of discussions with colleagues across a diverse set of institutions.
These conversations often end up at the same place. Read more...
EdTech and Hard Sci-Fi
By Joshua Kim. Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future by John Scalzi
Lexicon: A Novel by Max Barry
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Over Thanksgiving break I didn’t think I didn’t read e-mail, and I didn’t think about higher education. Read more...
61 Ways You Know You Are Talking to an Instructional Designer
By Joshua Kim. 61 Ways You Know You Are Talking To An Instructional Designer:
1. They are scarily good at listening.
2. They will always first try to clearly establish your goals. Read more...