by gary575 | Aug 9, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Though the group might be interested in this message I received from a fellow Carnegie-Mellon Alum: My name is Yush, and I graduated from CMU 2010, where I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering. I’ve been working on an initiative whose mission is to make a...
by gary575 | Aug 1, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
This Reuters article speaks to the trade-offs between higher ed labor costs and success rates as we try to extend higher ed to less motivated and prepared learners. The California statistics cited are pretty telling: By way of illustration, consider the four-year and...
by gary575 | Jul 31, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Makes me wonder about NM – from the Dish. Maybe I should have filed this under “Gamification”. Are We Failing At Grading Schools? Jul 31 2013 @ 4:00pm Big education news out of Indiana, where the state’s former schools chief – now Florida’s...
by gary575 | Jul 31, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Interesting (to me) quote in a NYT article (PSA PDF) on software evolving to address changing work habits. The message has implications for training/learning. “We are moving from persuasion based on rhetoric to persuasion based on tables and videos inserted into...
by gary575 | Jul 30, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
I happened upon this company, LearnDash, due to a blog entry – I do NOT know them. There are two reasons for this post, however. 1) If and/or when PSA is looking for a low cost LMS, there may be a reason to explore a WordPress plugin such as this. 2) Tin Can...
