By Joshua Kim. Consumer technologies and higher education feel like they should be closely related. The tools are now largely the same.
We use the same laptop for connecting with online communities and managing our finances as we use to teach online and blended courses. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Technology in education gets way too much attention. There is a huge (and growing) gap between the hype of what technology can do for higher education, and the reality of what technology has actually accomplished. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Here are my top 7 mistakes that pundits and critics make when they talk about open online education:
Mistake #1: "Open Online Courses Are a Substitute for Traditional Courses"
Higher order learning is an activity that cannot be scaled. Foundational knowledge may be appropriate for a MOOC (or a textbook, or even a really well-designed educational video game), but advanced learning works best with an educator. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Learning technology is a networked discipline. Our community is small. Careers tend to be long. Over the length of our professional lifetimes we get to know our colleagues at other institutions really well. Our learning technology community is highly motivated to understand what our peers are doing. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The Britannica.com Super Bowl ad “Questions” ran in the 3rd quarter of the 2000 Super Bowl.
You can watch the 30 second ad here. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier.
For one of the recent books that I read I can definitely share my book selection process. I chose to buy and read (two very different actions) Data and Goliath because of Barbara Fister. Barbara reviewed the book - A Scare-Your-Socks-Off Thriller: Data and Goliath. I bought the book. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler.
There are at least two big reasons why those of us in the edtech profession may be interested in Thaler’s Misbehaving. (Whatever your reasons for reading this book you will be rewarded with an excellent tale well told). Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The next book I will read is The Martian: A Novel.
The only reason that I purchased and will read The Martian is a review by Anthony Helm on MediaMixED. In Educational Technology and “The Martian”, Anthony connects his experience reading the novel to his work driving postsecondary learning innovation. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Marc Andreessen, “Why Software Is Eating The World”.
When it comes to higher education, Marc Andreessen is wrong. Software will never eat higher education.
Higher education is not like record stores. Not like Blockbuster Video. Not like Kodak. Not like travel agents. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry,the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Witt.
I thought that I knew the music industry disruption story. If you had asked me before I read the amazing How Music Got Free what killed the record labels and the record stores (remember Tower Records), I would have given a 3 part answer. Read more...
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