by andflywrite | Mar 23, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
As Kris recently posted, Digital Learning Day just happened, and this is just to embed that video in a post directly from YouTube and bring this worthy video to our attention again, and to again note that previous year’s webcasts are available here. Kudos to...
by andflywrite | Mar 23, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Because OTL might be lacking some of the coercive motivational factors of traditional education, and takes place in environments which might be rich in competitive demands on attention, OTL needs to “capture the imagination” of learners. That’s...
by andflywrite | Mar 23, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Schools in Finland have been praised as producing some of the best educated youth in the world, and their methods of teaching have been examined and promoted as models for elsewhere. Now they are taking things further with a model that de-emphasizes subjects, and...
by andflywrite | Mar 12, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
The over 300 page FCC document spelling out, at one level of complexity, their new rules on Net Neutrality was released to the public today. This is not the last word, pun intended, on the matter, as all of it will be subject to legal interpretation at some point,...
by andflywrite | Mar 12, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
NYTimes story on increased funding for online educational tools and startups. Venture and equity financing for ed tech companies soared to nearly $1.87 billion last year, up 55 percent from the year before, according to a new report from CB Insights, a venture capital...
