Peering Deep into Future of Educational Credentialing
Doug Belshaw, DMLcentral, 2015/04/02
Is an educational credential like a type of money? That's the core thought behind Doug Belshaws post that challenges traditional thinking on things like badges. More...
Apple and Education
Website, Apple, 2015/04/02
EdSurge reports that "Apple just released a fresh For Educators page, that scoops up apps, books, courses and collections all relating to education from iTunes U, the App Store and iBooks Store." There's a lot there, and Apple no doubt is a storehouse of resources, but the problem is as it always was: you have to use Apple's proprietary iTunes software to access most of the resources. More...
Micro-Learning as a Workplace Learning Strategy
Sahana Chattopadhyay, ID & Other Reflections, 2015/04/02
The focus of discussion on micro-learning is the short duration of learning events - 5 or 10 minutes - implied in the name. But more significant, I think, is the means of production. More...
Your Nostalgia Isn’t Helping Me Learn
Michael Oman-Reagan, The Synapse, 2015/04/06
Michael Oman-Reagan takes a (well-argued) stand against the recent spate of stories claiming students "learn better" using notebooks and pens. More...
Taylor Pearson, 2015/04/06
I don't think this is the greatest presentation of the issue - the definition of "highly credentialed individuals" extends well beyond Harvard MBAs - but it's an interesting account of the push to obtain credentials and the cost of paying for them once they've been obtained. More...
Policies and Conversation
E. Gordon Gee, Inside Higher Ed, 2015/04/06
The echos of childhood still resonate in my mind. Not all of them are positive. Some of them are like "don't be such a sissy" and "don't be such a knowitall". More...
My Viva
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, 2015/04/06
Patrick Dunleavy offers this list of ten typical questions that might be asked on your PhD oral exam. I always felt I would have aced my oral exam, but I never got to take it because my examiners did not want me to work on network theory. More...
edX MOOC Research Gives Clearer Picture, Challenges Assumptions
Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology, 2015/04/07
The results from one LMS and 68 courses do not define the picture of learning for all time. But it's hard to deny that they're in a different league from the stereotypical 'class of 40 psychology undergrads' when it comes to research on students and learning. More...
The Future of On-Campus Higher Education?
Margaret Andrews, Inside Higher Ed, 2015/04/07
I'm not sure exactly when this came out (it's copyrighted 2100) but it's more Stanford hubris, 'discovering' a future the rest of us have been talking about for years. Here are the major elements:
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Competency-based education is all the rage: What is it?
Kimberly K. Estep, The Tennessean, 2015/04/07
James Morrison recommends this article as "the clearest explanation of CBE that I have read." As the author, . More...
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