by kris | Nov 11, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
This article describes the economic benefits of the MOOC business model for higher education. In America, bowing to the inevitable, universities have joined various startups in the rush to provide stand-alone instruction online, through Massive Open Online Courses, or...
by andflywrite | Nov 10, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
A press release by Finance New Mexico in LCSN regarding something called “Startup Weekends” which occur across the state supporting small groups who have an idea/ project/ concept to develop. Part of the “Lean Startup Movement” nationwide, and...
by andflywrite | Nov 10, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
President Obama has made a strong statement of support for net neutrality, and called on the FCC to enact rules to “make it so” by classifying broadband under Title II, which is thought by many experts to be legally the strongest step to take to...
by andflywrite | Nov 8, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
This was in the previous Competency Based Learning post from Kris. Texas threw a nice round $50 million at the problem of figuring out just what can be done with this new online learning stuff, and voila, the Institute for Transformational Learning was born. Not to be...
by kris | Nov 7, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
Reaching adult learners in literacy or ELL programs is always a challenge so this link confirms what I have often thought…adult education learners have smart phones and they will learn on their own. What they need are more apps that focus on the skills they...
by andflywrite | Nov 6, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
Magic Leap is a new company getting massive funding from big players that has a new technology in hand that purports to be really really kuhl, if perhaps not ready to be defined precisely. “I’m not sure what the category will be called,” Tull says...
