by kris | Nov 11, 2018 | 7 Core DLE Elements, BEST LINKS EVER, Capturing Imagination, Science of Learning, Understanding Media
The popular MOOC Learning How to Learn offered by Coursera, features a weekly Friday greeting email with the latest strategies from neuroscience curated from books, articles and interviews. Recently, Barb Oakley, the MOOC instructor was featured in an interview in...
by andflywrite | Nov 9, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
Knewton, one of the early EdTech pioneers, made ambitious announcements about ten years ago regarding tools to serve adaptive real-time learning online .Today, lets check in on what is up currently with Knewton’s projects and ambitions, as well as those of the...
by andflywrite | Nov 8, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
One of the more challenging features of life today is trying to understand “BlockChain”. Kidding… but not kidding. Broadly speaking, a blockchain is an evolving record of all transactions that is maintained, simultaneously and in common, by every...
by andflywrite | Oct 31, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
As a followup to the previous post, here’s an example of how new communication tools are changing the way jobs are done, and the way we train future practitioners of those jobs. The availability of tools like virtual-reality goggles along with a...
by andflywrite | Oct 31, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
In a nation whose large-scale educational institutions often feature a “one size fits all” approach, vocational learning has been a kind of patch/ add-on to the main focus on higher ed. On one extreme there are advocates for everyone having some form of...
by andflywrite | Oct 26, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
Here’s one of the most comprehensive Marshal McLuhan sites on the web. One of the most charismatic, controversial and original thinkers of our time whose remarkable perception propelled him onto the international stage, Marshall McLuhan is...
