Hack Education

The University of Phoenix has a new owner. President Obama released his 2017 budget. Tennessee experienced a "major technology failure" during testing. Maine Governor Paul LePage has appointed himself education commissioner, because "king of the world" is not currently an office a Mainer can hold. ImagineK12 merges with Y Combinator. And more. ...

The University of Phoenix has a new owner. President Obama released his 2017 budget. Tennessee experienced a "major technology failure" during testing. Maine Governor Paul LePage has appointed himself education commissioner, because "king of the world" is not currently an office a Mainer can hold. ImagineK12 merges with Y Combinator. And more. ...

In October, the Obama Administration announced a new initiative that would allow coding bootcamps, MOOCs, and other ed-tech experiments to be eligible for federal financial aid. It's a bit odd, perhaps, that it would do this while also saying it's interested in cracking down on for-profit higher education. Here's a history to link this all together....

This keynote was delivered at NWeLearn in Olympia, Washington. Initially I planned to focus on algorithms, but I couldn't let some of the latest PR from Knewton slide. I tried to intertwine three As: austerity, automation, and algorithms. It was my final keynote of the year, so there you have it....

My annual review of the most significant trends in education technology. I promise you, nobody reviews the year in ed-tech like I review the year in ed-tech. Nobody. 2015's "top trends" include privacy, politics, testing, venture capital investment, and the (supposed) collapse of for-profit higher ed....

I spent much of 2015 on the road, traveling and speaking extensively about education technology's histories, ideologies, and mythologies. This is a sequel of sorts to my 2014 book The Monsters of Education Technology, this one a collection of eleven of those talks on topics ranging from the algorithmic future of education to the Californian Ideology....