Hack Education

Classes and Credits In a massively ironic online disaster, the Coursera/Georgia Tech course Fundamentals of Online Education was cancelled this week, following a lot of technical and pedagogical hiccups. You can read more about the class from students enrolled — Debbie Morrison’s “How NOT to Design a MOOC: The Disaster...

Here is a (rough) transcript of my talk today at the ELI Annual Meeting in Denver. I've also Storified some of the tweets from the session and included a link to my slidedeck. Special thanks to Jentery Sayers (UVic) and Tim Owens (UMW) for the use of their photos from...

Based on some pushback on my Storify of the conversation I held at EduCon about the “politics of ed-tech,” I wanted to expand and clarify my thoughts on the topic. Plus, it was a pretty interesting week, with lots of great examples to talk about... The most well-known of Melvin...

2013 is off to a bit of a crazy start, and despite our best intentions to record this podcast weekly, Steve Hargadon and I simply haven't been able to do so. That means that when we finally have a chance to sit down and chat, as we did today, we...

Laws and Politics and Patents President Obama unveiled his proposals for major immigration reform this week in a speech in Las Vegas. Among these, expedited citizenship to undocumented immigrants who have been brought to the country by their parents and who are in college (or have served in the military...

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Law and Politics California Governor Jerry Brown gave his State of the State address this week. Among the topics he covered: education (no big surprise), including a proposal to change the formula for school (supplemental) funding so that monies are distributed “based on the real world problems they face.” The...

I was one of a small group invited to participate in a “MOOC summit,” sponsored by Sebastian Thrun, in Palo Alto in December of last year. Those present have affixed our name to a document that was released publicly today. (Link) One of the goals of that December gathering was...

I'm one of the signers of the document below, which was written collaboratively following a small gathering in Palo Alto last month. I'm posting it here unedited and in its entirety, with my comments in a separate post.  Preamble Work on this Bill of Rights & Principles began in Palo...

I’m one of the 150K followers of the Twitter bot @horse_ebooks. I just built my first Twitter bot, @horse_edubooks, based upon it. Why follow a bot? Why build one? No doubt, there are lots of bots on Twitter that simply spew about weight-loss drugs or auto-respond to keywords like iPad....