The last big barrier to personalized instruction is teacher time. Knewton wants to help.| WIRED
How a new technology that figures out just how your mind works is about to make us all a whole lot smarter.| Newsweek
This University Is Booming, But Don't Compare It To A For-Profit College| HuffPost
I’ve been involved in educational technology since the late 1990′s when I was at Red River College and involved in deploying the first laptop program in Canada. Since that time, I’ve been involved in many technology deployments in learning and in researching those deployments. Some have been systems-level – like a learning management system. Others have been more decentralized and unstructured – like blogs, wikis, and social media. | web.archive.org
I gave this keynote this morning at the ICLS Conference, not in Nashville as originally planned (which is a huge bummer as I really want some hot chicken)| Hack Education
“For a number of years the writer has had it in mind that a simple machine for automatic testing of intelligence or information was entirely within the realm of possibility. The modern object...| Hack Education
Correspondence Courses and the Pre-History of MOOCsI’m currently working on an essay on the pre-history of MOOCs – from correspondence courses to teaching machines and television –...| Hack Education
Enshittification is a choice.| Medium
The Secretary of Education Linda McMahon will speak at the ASU+GSV Summit next month. The conference makes no mention in its blurb promoting the Secretary's appearance of what happened last week: President Trump's executive order to dismantle her department. There's no mention of any of the other actions that| Second Breakfast
Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would allow students to “go at their own pace”...| MIT Press