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Questioning Where Online Education Will Take Us

Publicado el 15-05-2013

"BATCH PROCESSING": At a recent talk at Harvard Law School, writer and Berkman Center fellow Justin Reich shared concerns over the edtech hype, including the fact that he's "absolutely certain that a lot of things are taking some very old, and in some cases some very tired ideas in education ...

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How to Conduct a Successful Classroom Pilot

Publicado el 15-05-2013

Three things every entrepreneur should test to make a great product

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Play-i Raises $1M for Educational Robots

Publicado el 14-05-2013

PLAY-I: $1 million in seed funding to Play-i from Google Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, and a group of undisclosed angels, reports AllThingsD. Founded by four Silicon Valley techies, the company aims to build robots to teach programming for children ages 5 to 8. Other than the goal of making ...

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Karel the Dog's Excellent Coding Road Trip

Publicado el 14-05-2013

CodeHS takes coding--and a stuffed dog--to schools throughout the U.S.

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New Yorker Recaps MOOC Hype and Hysteria

Publicado el 14-05-2013

MOOCIN' BOUT TOWN: Buzzing about the web this week is a ten-pager about MOOCs from Nathan Heller at The New Yorker, which meanders through the buildup and backlash, hype and hysteria that have dominated the online higher education conversation over the past couple of years. (We've been keeping ...

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Google Glass: Vision for Future of Learning?

Publicado el 14-05-2013

This is a shamelessly promotional video for Google Glass, but it shows the possibilities this tool opens up for learners. Andrew Vanden Heuvel teaches advanced physics online to high school students...

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QR Voice: A Picture Is Worth A 100 Characters

Publicado el 14-05-2013

I’ve posted a couple of articles in the past about QR codes in the classroom, and I’ve found that they can be an engaging, hands-on way to disseminate information to students. Today, I want to share a new QR tool that will allow you to use these codes in the classroom in a new way. Now usually, you need a link to generate a QR code, usually referring students back to a website, a video, an audio file or even an interactive activity.

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BardBytes: Shakespeare on the Web

Publicado el 14-05-2013

I wanted to share with you a work-in-progress, but exciting website: BardBytes. BardBytes, aptly summarized by its title, is an effort to bridge the gap between the Elizabethan Era and the 21st century classroom by providing educators with modern Shakespearean resources. Resources are categorized into history, tragedy, comedy and poetry, and then by individual plays.

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FutureLearn Ideas – Study in healthcare

Publicado el 14-05-2013

FutureLearn Ideas are submitted by visitors to this site, suggesting ways in which FutureLearn could be developed.
We run a primary care mental health service.
We do lots of in-house training for our 250 staff.
We would like to link up to have accredited courses cheaper than the traditional higher education courses we are forced to use.
There is a great need for training of, for example, health care assistants with a role in dementia care.

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