Hack Education

Google let me have a peek at its quarterly report on education-related searches. It seems that people are still searching for liberal arts degrees and PhD programs. I don't know whether that makes me happy or heartbroken, honestly. Read the whole story on Inside Higher Ed

Part 3 in my "Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2011" series. As I've planned this series of year-end posts, I've tried to approach the ed-tech trends of 2011 from a 30,000 foot view. In other words, rather than looking at too many specific companies or specific events or dwelling on...

Unaffiliated me... over on Inside Higher Ed.

Earlier this year, Skype launched "Skype in the Classroom," a program that formally recognized (and moved to better support) something that many teachers and students were already doing: using the VOIP service to bring in virtual visitors and to connect classrooms to others all over the world. Piping in astronauts,...

Politics and Policies The FTC announced this week that it has reached a settlement with Facebook over its deceptive privacy practices. Facebook will now be subject to periodic reviews of its privacy policies for the next 20 years. For his part, Mark Zuckerberg says he's sorry (apology number 10, says...

Part 2 in my "Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2011" series. The Growth of Social The human population hit the 7 billion mark this year. 800 million of us are now on Facebook. And that old "six degrees of separation" thing? Facebook says that thanks to its network, there are...

Here's my look at a wonderfully innovative program at the Oak Hills Local School District in Cincinnati, Ohio. The eKIDS program (eLearning Kids in Demand) turns students from elementary through high school into e-learning consultants at their schools, where they help teach their fellow students as well as their teachers...

Welcome to the first in my year-end series "Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2011." I've identified some of the most important trends from this year, which I'll be highlighting here over the course of the next few weeks. At the beginning of the year, I made a couple of pronouncements...

Coursekit grew out of the frustrations that you'll hear from many students and faculty that have had to deal with Blackboard. That frustration prompted the three founders, University of Pennsylvania students Joe Cohen, Dan Getelman, and Jim Grandpre to create their own re-imagined version of a learning management system. The...

The peer-to-peer micropayment service Flattr wants to make November 29 "Pay a Blogger Day." No doubt, it's partially a marketing campaign for the service itself: if you're going to toss some coins a blogger's way, why not Flattr them, right? But it's also an occasion, says the Swedish startup, to...