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West Virginia Revamps Vocational Track

Sometimes those big fundamental ideas become more than just theoretical explorations. Currently, we are re-examining what is “knowledge” in the 21st century, and how our citizens should be prepared to “work” in a brave new world. We use the...

Carnegie Mellon Lecture Capture in Action

Carnegie Mellon University and Kaltura are partnering on an “easy lecture capture” video platform. As noted previously, while this is a step forward towards actually optimized elearning using video, and might help form part of a library of video to be...

Knowledge Compression and Curation

In what is plausibly a new trend, there are two online services that say they can “compress knowledge”. Or words to that effect. In today’s world of way too much knowledge…it seems at times anyway…first rate curation could be extremely...

IL, NM, WA etc battle for education funding

AS noted in a recent post, funding for education in the US is precarious, and in some cases and states, under extreme duress. One state, that decades ago had one of the better educational systems of any state, is in an ongoing ideological battle for educational...