Rebuilding E-Learning Companies
Advice on how to retool your e-learning company (we all have e-learning companies, right?) to adapt to the changing marketplace. Generally sound advice, though the last suggestion - "Acquire companies" - is a bit more than most of us can manage. More...
Homeschool Gets Sex Education from the 'you can learn a lesson from this dept.' - Home Education Magazine lost its domain name, www.home-ed-press.com, to a porn site when it failed to renew its registration with Network Solutions. More...
“The best part was the contact!”: Understanding postgraduate students’ experiences of wrapped MOOCs
Tasneem Jaffer, Shanali Govender, Cheryl Brown, Open Praxis, 2017/06/30
I generally think of the "wrapped MOOC" as neither massive, nor open, nor online, so I view them with a bit of scepticism. And we learn very little about the actual details of the implementation in this case. More...
Pragmatism vs. Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy
Rajiv Sunil Jhangiani, Open Praxis, 2017/06/30
This article describes pretty accurately the identity crisis in open education (OE) "as it is pulled towards both pragmatism (marked by an emphasis on cost savings, resources, and incremental change) and idealism (marked by an emphasis on permissions, practices, and radical change)." I think the divisions have always existed. More...
Why artificial intelligence is different from previous technology waves
Robbie Allen, Oreilly, 2017/06/30
When Robbie Allen says 'we' here he doesn't mean me. Still, there is truth to what he says: "We went from a general disbelief in software being able to automate things that were strictly in the domain of humans to every startup having a token AI slide in their pitch decks." And of course now the startuips are all AI with a token 'web' or 'user interface' slide in their decks. More...
Watch the keynotes and panels from the Saylor Higher Education Summit
Sean Connor, Saylor Academy, 2017/06/30
Saylor has made a list of keynotes and panels available for viewing on YouTube. More...
Will Free Community College Really Help Low-Income Students?
Kate Schwass, Education Next, 2017/06/26
Whenever I read an article arguing against providing a benefit to poor people I look for the hidden agenda, and in this article I find it in the fact that the author is an executive director for CollegeSpring. More...
Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social
Brad Spirrison, EdSurge, 2017/06/26
This post in EdSurge reads like they said "yes" to one of those emails offering free articles for their website. More...
Data Visualization Pitfalls to Avoid
Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, 2017/06/26
This is a really interesting slide deck (63 page PDF) on some topics in data visualization. It breaks roughly into three parts. The first is a survey of data visualization techniques, with a focus on different visualization tools or elements. More...
HowToons
Various authors, 2017/06/26
The people at O'Reilly write, "this is brilliant! An amazing kit in the mail each month, with an interesting project each time. It's given me some priceless moments with my nephew. They're not so long that the kid loses interest, nor so mundane that you lose interest." The kits contain basic materials and comic-style instructions and you can build things like toy guitars, cars, and whatnot. More...
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