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“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...

Build or Buy: Adaptive Learning Tools

Since a good DLE involves so many different capabilities, skills, and knowledge sets, it’s probably likely that at least some of the tools “mashed” into a DLE would be third party derived. Here’s an article on some options now for same with...

Games as learning engines

Prof Eric Klopfer from the edX course, Design and Development of Learning Games,talks in this video with Dan Norton, Founding Partner and CCO at Filament Games. Dan Norton reflects on Filament Games’ design philosophy and also challenges faced by learning game...

Educational gaming resources

Here are some final resources from the edX course, Design and Development of Games for Learning. K-12 MARKET-How to survive? Richards, John, et al. Winter 2013. Games for a Digital Age: K-12 Market Map and Investment Analysis. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame...

“Network Effect” defined

Thought useful to fully define the term Network Effect  being used to describe certain economic realities in cloud tool world. From Wikipedia: In economics and business, a network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the effect...