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Hack Education Weekly News: Curiosity on Mars
Science and Curiosity Congratulations to NASA for landing the Curiosity Rover on Mars late Sunday night after an 8-month, 352 million mile journey. Politics and Policies Lots of news from Louisiana...
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A Twist on Video-Based Education: MIT's New "Reality TV" Show
Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed There’s been plenty of buzz lately about the ways in which online video is poised “disrupt” education – whether it’s via the growing video library of Khan Academy or...
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Former Flip Video Execs Launch Educational Video Platform
Long before the buzz about the “flipped classroom,” there was buzz about the “Flip camera,” a low-cost but good-quality, easy-to-use video camera. Teachers and students loved it. But the company behind...
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6.003z: A Learner-Created MOOC Spins Out of MITx
It’s hard to not see Stanford University as the leading force in a lot of the recent MOOC-related buzz; or at least that’s the story that Stanford and its startup spin-outs tell. That’s put MIT in the...
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Who's Reading Your Research? Academia.edu Offers an Analytics Dashboard For...
Cross-posted on Inside Higher Ed Academia.edu, a social network for scholars, is unveiling a new feature today that its founder Richard Price hopes will help address part of the “credit gap” for...
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OER Use, Reuse and Remixing
I’m starting a new research and writing project today that examines the current state of open educational resources. My interest isn’t simply identifying where the repositories of OER lie or what they...
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A "Social," Free and Openly-Licensed Intro to Sociology Textbook
Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed I underline and highlight as I read and scribble copious notes in the margins of books (or sometimes, particularly in a book that I used for teaching, on a color-coded...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Running Mates, Scrabble Cheaters, and Khan...
Politics and Policies Last weekend, Republican Party Presidential nominee Mitt Romney named his running mate, Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan. While some folks are saying that the selection...
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Practicing Grammar with NoRedInk
No More Red Ink High school teacher Jeff Scheur tells a pretty familiar story for anyone who’s taught writing: you spend a lot of time grading essays, doing your best to provide personalized feedback...
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Hack Education Weekly Podcast
Every week, Steve Hargadon and I sit down (virtually) to talk about the latest ed-tech news. I always find our conversation to be one of the most thought-provoking exchanges I have all week. Well,...
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The Mechanical MOOC
Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed MIT OpenCourseware, OpenStudy, Peer to Peer University, and Codecademy are teaming up to launch a “Mechanical MOOC” – a free and open introductory course in the...
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OER Repositories & Directories
Quick update: I thought I’d kick off my new “State of OER” research by compiling a list of all the available OER repositories -- a sensible place to start. I thought about just compiling everything...
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OER Types, Topics, and Licensing - By the Numbers
OER Repositories, Part 2 The data below is drawn from OER Commons, a site that provides one of the best directories for finding open educational resources. OER Commons makes it easy to search by...
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Hack Education Weekly News: California State University System Outsources...
Politics and Policies The California State University system – the largest public university system in the U.S. – is outsourcing its online education offerings to Pearson. Ugh. Some days, I just want...
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The Problems with Coursera's Peer Assessments
Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed When I wrote about the launch of online education startup Coursera back in April, one of the things that most intrigued me most was the description that founders...
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Hack Education Weekly Podcast
Every week, Steve Hargadon and I sit down (virtually) to talk about the latest ed-tech news. I always find our conversation to be one of the most thought-provoking exchanges I have all week. In this...
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Ed Startup 101, Week 1
It’s Day 1 of Ed Startup 101, an open online course in education entrepreneurship being offered by David Wiley, Richard Culatta, Todd Manwaring, and Aaron Miller. I’m pleased to see this class happen...
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OER Usage (A Survey)
Part 4 of my research into the availability and accessibility of open educational resources. (See: parts 1, 2, and 3.) There’s no shortage of openly-licensed educational content online. Trickier,...
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Bundling Textbook Costs with Tuition
Cross-posted at E-Literate With all the talk about the “unbundling” of education, it’s interesting to see several universities start to experiment with a re-bundling of sorts — that is, bundling...
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