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Learning game design and play testing

Here is an interview with Scott Osterweil from MIT Education Arcade.  Scott is being interviewed by  Professor Eric Klopfer  during the MOOC I recently completed, Design and Development of Learning Games.  Scott is discussing the design and development of the game,...

Nevada Privatizes Public Education

It is hard to fathom how this will work out well for public education in Nevada.  Parents can take the money that would normally go to public schools and give it to the ITT Educations of the world or perhaps just take the money and run. Read more here. I never cease...

Lure of the Labyrinth

What does an educator need to know to use a learning game in a classroom? See an educator support page from the game Lure of the Labyrinth.  Scott Osterweil, from MIT’s Education Arcade was interviewed often in the EdX course I just completed regarding good...

“Mini MOOC”?

Panopto is one of Tempo’s competitors that is more focused on Higher Ed.  They do a good job of messaging and self-promotion and they are a Carnegie-Mellon originated startup, so I follow their Blog and this one seems applicable to PSA even though I may disagree...

“Uber for Private Tutors”

Kudos to Gary for link from Marginal Revolution University stuff, and this quote below, which just begins to touch on the ways that a Social Learning Construct would be constructed… to include guides on the side, facilitators, learning curators, learning...