eLearning predictions via ThisIsBold
Well, the ThisIsBold predictions are out! I don’t think any of these caught us off guard, but it does help to have a tidy reference sheet. Personally, I’m interested to see how many of the open...
View ArticleWrestling a Project
Now, who couldn’t use some good reminders on how to avoid project failure? Although most of this is old hat, these tips are kind of like rereading that favorite cookie recipe: you do it just don’t want...
View ArticleDon’t skip the plan
Most people don’t like to plan: they like to do. This is especially true in organizations when the outcome of an idea is fresh, alluring, seductive, and potentially lucrative. The desire to rush into...
View ArticleLondon’s University on Facebook: Whaaaa…?
Well, holy online degree, Batman. Take a gander at this shiny new tidbit: London School of Business and Finance is offering their classes online, for free, from…wait for it…Facebook. No really. Here’s...
View ArticleWho wants to hear a story?
Everyone. We often forget that storytelling is a universal human trait. We love stories. Here’s a great webinar called “Story-Based eLearning: Adding Vitality, High Learning and Engagement” by Ray...
View ArticleHolistic Project Management: Gregory Balestrero
Looking to hear the former President and CEO of PMI give his take on the movement of project management? He gave a great interview at the Project Zone Budapest conference in April. And to add some...
View ArticleSocial media: Blinders won’t help
The myth about social media in the classroom is that if you use it, kids will be Tweeting, Facebooking and Snapchatting while you’re trying to teach. We still have to focus on the task at hand. Don’t...
View ArticleNew Path
Back in the Industrial Revolution, workers were hired into a shop, learned the technical skill sets needed on the job, and worked – all at the same time. Many scholars are calling the time we’re in the...
View ArticleSXSWEdu: Students in Higher Ed: New Student Normal
Provost Robert Groves from Georgetown explained that Georgetown puts strong value behind a brick and mortar, physical face-to-face with faculty type instruction. Good news: there will always be a...
View ArticleGo Digital in the Classroom
Incorporating technology in the classroom doesn’t render the role of the instructor obsolete—it’s just the opposite: technology can extend the teacher’s role as a facilitator to keep students engaged....
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Using mobile behavior data to build better mobile learning
by Phil Roeder via Flickr In the early days of online education, our industry copied what worked in the classroom into an online environment. Over time, we found that students did not behave the same...
View ArticleAnother step toward learner-centered and assessment-based education measurement
[T]he long-used proxies for quality in higher education—seat time, faculty profile, institutional reputation, tradition, even endowment size ― all of these indicators are insufficient, even invalid....
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Student loans: Their purpose
The government is scared of being accused of making university education the preserve of an economic elite, but it’s coming close to mis-selling student loans as a result. Loans are there to ensure...
View ArticleHumanities makes us better humans
Standford’s article The humanities and medicine (April 6, 2014) poignantly captures the value of humanities education. For the fan of hard evidence Education in the humanities also provides us with...
View ArticleSocial media policy for schools
I’ll keep this short: educators need to be on social media with their students. There’s a litany of reasons why, but I think the most compelling is that students need modeled behavior. We’ve starved...
View ArticleTools and tech
If you’re in edtech, you need to read this article from EdSurge. It will help you avoid the common pitfalls of edtech when it comes to implementation. For me, I gravitate to the fact that too many...
View ArticleGoogle Helpouts: Access to Industry
‘Real help from real people in real time’ is Helpouts [sic] tag line. It’s essentially an online service where one can find an expert in a given field, and pay by the minute to receive realtime help...
View ArticleImplementing Carl Rogers in the Classroom
After pulling together some resources for our instructors here at work, I came across a great article that outlines Carl Roger’s theories on psychology, which align themselves with educational...
View ArticleGrowth of Coding Schools
David Hoffmeister, wrote a relatively objective piece on the proliferation of coding schools. The driving question of the article is how should higher education institutes react to these new and...
View ArticleSmartphones saving victims of domestic abuse
In 2014, Veronica Arreola began a goal of taking a selfie once a day for a year in an effort to capture herself in real life situations – an attempt to support the idea that selfies could be used as a...
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