by kris | Dec 3, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
While this article in the New York Times relates to recovering from the trauma of terrorism, the reference to storytelling also applies to disruption in learning today. Perhaps PSA interviews are a form of story telling for all of us as we adapt to the disruption in...
by andflywrite | Nov 25, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
AMPLIFY’S LEAD BUYER turns out to be Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of the late Apple co-founder, who founded Emerson Collective (which has invested in a slew of edtech startups including AltSchool and Udacity). In addition to purchasing the beleaguered New York company,...
by andflywrite | Nov 25, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
“It’s taken us three years to arrive at more focused intentions,” Agarwal explains, “but learners want credit, and to provide credit we must create quality learning environments that meet the needs of diverse learners, and are recognized by institutions and...
by andflywrite | Nov 23, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
The Online Learning Consortium, formerly called Sloan Consortium, is now offering a slate of what it calls professional advisory services for those engaged in online learning programs. The Online Learning Consortium offers Advisory Services for the the K-12,...
by kris | Nov 22, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
I found this article in the Facebook Rhizo 15 MOOC discussion presented by Dave Cormier. This article looks at Vygotsky theories of learning as an interpretive lense for complexity theory applied to education. Dave Cormier looks at the rhizome as an example of...
by andflywrite | Nov 21, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Marshall McLuhan was a visionary that didn’t provide absolute clarity about what “using media” did to our human condition. But he pointed us in a very appropriate direction when he said we need to try to understand how the extensions we use affect...
