by andflywrite | Sep 4, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Affordable quality broadband access continues to be a slow rollout for rural areas in US, and smaller population centers. There are efforts underway by tech giants like Google or should we say Alphabet to create municipal FTTH and/or innovate the problem away. In the...
by andflywrite | Aug 24, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
If we had $1500 a piece, we could join the huge “Learning 2015” conference in Orlando in November. Four days and 1600 people and more than 180 workshops/ sessions, so what’s not to like? Does beg the question of how many of the 180 sessions one might...
by andflywrite | Aug 24, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
A real fear exists that, sooner than we might imagine, we will be taken over by the machines we make, the robots we build, and the technology we attach ourselves to. It can be pretty scary. We learned about one version of this future in Star Trek, with The Borg which...
by andflywrite | Aug 22, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Developers of online learning experiences need to take advantage of whatever tools are out there. Sometimes there’s so much information, one needs a graphic than can organize it and communicate it efficiently. Instead of pages and pages of text. Not an easy...
by kris | Aug 21, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Online education is changing rapidly, and a graduation rate can’t possibly capture the effectiveness of an education — online or not. Instead of compiling metrics that paint an incomplete picture, we asked good questions to the right people. Bestschools.com offers...
by kris | Aug 19, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
We have discussed the Amazon appeal for competence, and here is an alternative: How to become unhooked. Pema Chodron provides 21 lectures or 9.5 hours of content in how to become unstuck and unhooked from what we do habitually. For $67 you can find out how to do...
