By . When Cheap Trick first belted out “Are you lonely tonight,” it’s safe to say the band didn’t have distance learning in mind. Yet the line accurately sums up the most persistent problem plaguing online education since its inception: a sense of isolation among students. More...
By Joshua Kim. The NYTimes is getting it right with The Uphshot.
Who needs Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight when we can get “news analysis, data visualizations, commentary and historical context” from the staff of the NYTimes? (Actually, FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver are still pretty great). Read more...
By Joshua Kim. We have an edtech space problem. Our work, if you work at the intersection of learning and technology, increasingly resembles that of a tech startup. The spaces that we work are, however, unlikely to have been designed around how we work today. Edtech work patterns and edtech work rhythms have left our legacy office designs behind. Read more...
Perceptions related to “educational technology” have been continuously changing throughout the century. At this point, educational technology seems to be a confusing or an incomprehensible concept for most people. Perceptions of professional educational technologists in the relevant field can provide individuals who build their career in the relevant area with various perspectives. More...
Mobile devices have become attractive learning devices for education. While the majority of the existing research has focused primarily on the value of mobile learning for students, researchers have recently started exploring its potentials within teacher development. More...
Les technologies en éducation, cela semble aller de soi en 2014. Si certains en doutent encore, c'est qu'ils ne regardent pas du coté des étudiants. Il reste cependant à trouver les bonnes façons de les utiliser et au rythme essoufflant des changements, on est loin d'y être arrivé. Branché au réel ou au virtuel, on ne distingue plus tout à fait. Au cours de 2014, notre regard s'est rapproché des pratiques et s'étend au social. L'enseignement est de plus en plus réactif... Voir l'article...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Hotels Fight for the Right to Block Guests' Wi-Fi
Kate taylor, Entrepreneur, 2015/01/01
This story has been around for a while, but it points to the danger of commercial provision of essential services. As everyone knows, price is determined by the law of supply and demand - it is, essentially, whatever the market will bear. More...
By . I am aware that this chapter may appear somewhat abstract and theoretical, but in any subject domain, it is important to understand the foundations that underpin practice. This applies with even more force to understanding media and technology in education, because it is such a dynamic field that changes all the time. What seem to be the major media developments this year are likely to be eclipsed by new developments in technology next year. In such a shifting sea, it is therefore necessary to look at some guiding concepts or principles that are likely to remain constant, whatever changes take place over the years. See more...
By Audrey Watters. Much like my annual look at the “Top Ed-Tech Trends,” in previous years I’ve selected what I thought were the “Top Ed-Tech Startups.” (See 2011, 2012, 2013.) It’s something I started doing in 2010 when, as a tech blogger at ReadWriteWeb, I was assigned to write the year-end Top Startups article.
At the time, I made up some rules to limit my selection (mostly so my list didn’t end up being dominated by the likes of Facebook and Twitter). More...
By . Trends like “devices,” “MOOCs,” and “Twitter,” are making the rounds in higher education, but what do these trends means for admin and students, and how are they affecting classroom practice and IT capabilities. More...
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