by kris | Mar 29, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Embed Resources & Tools, Understanding Media
Data from the following national 2014 survey provides insight into the opportunity for technological innovations to take hold in the US adult education field. The overwhelming finding is that the vast majority of adult education program administrators and...
by kris | Mar 29, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Embed Resources & Tools
How can sensor data from smartphones fuel major advances? A clever idea for crowdfunding cell phone data offers a glimpse at how a huge data source in the form of cell phone sensor data becomes useful for insight into health care, transportation, urban planning and...
by andflywrite | Mar 1, 2016 | Individual Learner, Learning Community, Science of Learning
Among the many areas where there’s great potential for change, is releasing the “emotional side of being”, in support of learning. We are, to restate the obvious, emotional beings, and “what we are feeling” has a lot to do with what we...
by andflywrite | Mar 1, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Capturing Imagination, Convergence on Target, Individual Learner, Learning Community
One of the tricky situations for online learning is to help learners adopt the most effective identity for learning. Obviously, if one thinks one “isn’t good at school” one will be handicapped at learning, and alas, many kids from poverty background...
by andflywrite | Feb 27, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Capturing Imagination, Understanding Media
It’s here, and we are apparently going to have a lot of adjustments to make, and insights to arrive at, before we are “up to speed on VR”. Here’s two current articles, one in The Verge, and one from LCSN talking about Googles VR project Tango,...
by andflywrite | Feb 25, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Science of Learning, Understanding Media
One can assume there will be a lot more of this real time sensing of our body, including the brain, and that there will applications we are unable to imagine today that could arrive in the near and midterm. Wikipedia on “Brain – Computer...