December 2011
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http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/07/reed-hastings-and-... →
It is nice to see more education focused startups in the news and more importantly, it is nice to see them get funded.
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Late Nite Labs Raises $1.1 Million To Bring... →
This looks like a great tool for Colleges to adopt that would lessen the burden on both science educators teaching online courses, as well as Instructional Designers tasked with building out course content. The trade-off comes with price… How willing are campuses to pass along another $50 cost to students?
The argument is that it is like requiring another textbook… provided students...
November 2011
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1 in 6 Job Seekers Found Their Latest Job On A... →
This piqued my interest going back to my time working with Faculty Recruiting. I remember pushing the use of Facebook as a recruiting tool, which was met with interest, but little follow-through. Since we often see Higher Education lag behind other fields in adopting new technologies, I hope that colleges and universities come to embrace these tools to help recruit top talent. This is a trend...
July 2011
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Blackboard Sold! →
For those in Higher Ed who care about Learning Management Systems or just teaching online in general, it seems that Blackboard has always been the thousand pound elephant in the room. Concerns have ranged from Blackboard allegedly holding institutions ransom with their high maintenance costs to the giant company gobbing up much of the competition in the market. Whether or not these are fair...
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Fatminds Wants To Help You Find The Best... →
I am excited that a company is looking to take the lead in this arena that is mostly populated by confusing and often misleading marketing sites. My only hope is that they can help the average person better understand the differences in accreditation and why these differences may be important when choosing a school.
June 2011
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New Regulations for For-Profit Universities →
For-Profit Universities are already feeling the affects of preparing for some of the new regulations in terms of the exorbitant lobbying costs and a restructuring of their recruiting efforts. It will be interesting to see how it affects the bottom line…
April 2011
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“In today’s world, universities need to be held accountable for providing real...”
– http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/12/friends-don%e2%80%99t-let-friends-take-education-advice-from-peter-thiel/
February 2011
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Books Without Borders: A Victory For Amazon, But... →
Not necessarily related to education, but very important to the future of books and subsequently the whole book finding/reading experience.
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ults With College Degrees in the United States →
Fantastic Resource!!! Find Your County!!!
January 2011
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McGraw Hill Gets In On the Mobile Education Market →
There is some very encouraging news that publishers are taking mobile learning seriously. Although this will undoubtedly be helpful to developing countries, I am hopeful it will begin to push Universities to begin developing strategies to leverage this content for use in mobile devices here in the US. The issue is not that students need an ipad or iphone to learn, but rather schools have to...
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Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online: How to Teach... →
Good reference material.
This paper summarizes some of the best ideas and practices gathered from successful online instructors and recent literature. Suggestions include good online class design, syllabus development, and online class facilitation offering hints for success for both new and experienced online instructors.
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Virtual classrooms: Online education is changing... →
Very interesting article, however I take issue with the author’s use of the phrase “Computer classes” instead of Online or Distance Education Classes.
I don’t think any of the predictions listed below are particularly surprising, but even I would need some convincing that Physical Education, as the average person would think of it (gym class), should be online.
DON’T BE...
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What Technologies Will Rock Education in 2011...... →
TechCrunch put out a list of technologies that they believe will “Rock” 2011. Anyone in education already knows that it takes a bit longer for the next big thing to really hit our world. However, there are a couple trends (if not actual predictions) worth keeping an eye on in the years to come…
1- Mobile/Social Technology and Distance Education- You will find that almost...
November 2010
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News Corp. Buys Wireless Generation for $360... →
What on the surface may look like a curious purchase could prove to represent great foresight on the part of News Corp considering that other media companies such as the Washington Post generate the majority of their revenue from their education subsidiary, Kaplan.
Although Wireless Generation is an education technology company and not a university, their area of expertise is in another high...
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Online Learning Is Growing on Campus - NYTimes.com →
If colleges want to make a mixture of online and face-to-face classes work on a traditional campus, they will need to do more than simply offer students the option of showing up in person, or offering “lightning round” quizzes to prevent cheating. These things represent the bare minimum and really only work to serve the University and their interests, as opposed to the paying...
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Moody's lowers its rating on debt of Washington... →
One may wonder how this is related to education, but this “negative” outlook is directly caused by the anticipated affect that changes to the Department of Education’s guidelines regarding financial aid will hurt Kaplan, the Newspaper’s most profitable subsidiary.
Overall, new requirements that will curb how much in loan money student’s can take and how much...
October 2010
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I'm homeless and this is why I have an iPad →
This makes you rethink what it can mean to be “homeless.” It is pretty amazing when you think about it.
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Gizmodo traced the vagabond lives of two people who chose homelessness, but rely on technology to allow them to function in the world.
I’m homeless, very homeless, dirt broke and all, but I still own an iPad and a MSI Wind u130 netbook. These, I feel, are essential tools…...
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Gates and Hewlett Foundations Focus on Online... →
It is very exciting to see grant money geared toward Online Education. I hope Colleges have the resources to take advantage of this opportunity. It is easy to get bogged down in the bureaucracy of just keeping yourself above water with the every day necessities.
infoneer-pulse:
The education gap facing the nation’s work force is evident in the numbers. Most new jobs will require more than a...
September 2010
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FCC to fast track fiber to schools and libraries →
I never realized that there were unused “Information Highways” out there, kind of like abandoned subways. This new plan will help put these highways to good use for schools and communities.
infoneer-pulse:
A big component of the Federal Communication Commission’s national broadband strategy is to turn “anchor institutions”—schools, libraries, and government buildings—into 1Gbps...
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“Google wants input one on your TV. Apple wants input two. The difference? Input...”
– Engadget’s Michael Gartenberg.
Well articulated. The whole piece is worth a read.
(via dbreunig)
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Turns out the keyboard for Google TV has a... →
Nice overview and video outlining the Google TV.
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The All E-Book Diet →
Another college is moving away from hard copy textbooks altogether. Very interesting and cost effective model. It begs the question, how do students feel about it from a learning standpoint?
infoneer-pulse:
When it comes to saving money on textbooks, students can help themselves by renting their books or buying them used. Professors can help students by only upgrading to new editions when...
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YouTube Deal Turns Copyright Videos Into Revenue -... →
Now that You Tube has learned how to generate profit from from users uploading content, look for higher quality long form content to be added, including more educational videos. The article briefly highlights one person already making a living from it.
August 2010
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5 Reasons Why Every Single College Ranking Is a... →
Having just spoken yesterday with someone about choosing colleges, I thought this was quite interesting and on point.
infoneer-pulse:
But the largest problem with all these college rankings and guides is this: A student’s success or failure in college and in life will ultimately be determined by who they are, not which college they attend. Successful people attended all kinds of colleges -...
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Could The TED Model Be The Future of Education? →
For those not familiar, “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.” The article presents interesting ideas on how to reinvent the University…
infoneer-pulse:
notational:
rumour:
Anya...
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Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will... →
Bill Gates brings an optimistic perspective on how the web can change higher education five years from now…
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“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world,” Gates said at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA today. “It will be better than any single university,” he continued.
He believes that no matter how you came...
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“I come from a generation for whom the books and records on the shelf signaled,...”
– I am not sure if this is necessarily a backlash against e-readers, but this theme of concerns keeps popping up…
Malcolm Jones asks, Will E-Books Eliminate Physical Books? (via newsweek)
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Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet... →
Important development here: This move could begin to change how we view content and pay for it over the Internet…
infoneer-pulse:
e and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege.
The charges...
July 2010
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Judging a Girl by Her Cover →
As much as I love technology, this is an interesting anecdotal story about what we lose with every Kindle and Nook we buy…
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Remember when you could tell a lot about a guy by what cassette tapes—Journey or the Smiths?—littered the floor of his used station wagon? No more, because now the music of our lives is stored on MP3 players and iPhones. Our important papers live on...
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Clear Channel: Internet means we get to buy more... →
Interesting view on how our “radio” listening habits have moved to the internet and handheld devices over the past few years. Clear Channel wants to swoop in and target everyone left listening to terrestrial radio as a result.
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Education As We Know It Is Finished →
Big changes coming for K-12 Education, however the article makes some assumptions that younger students have the discipline to learn at their own pace. I have not seen this to necessarily be the case in Higher Ed.
There also seems to be a push to use online learning as a default remediation tool for those falling behind in a traditional classroom. Again, I do not believe this is always the...
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Libraries get a mall makeover →
I actually think this is a good idea…
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Like trucker hats and last week’s version of the iPhone, libraries have an image problem. Wait, did you say libraries? Those places with the passed out homeless people and the twenty-year-old editions of the “World Book”? You mean, people actually still go to them? Combine the public reticence to hobnob with vagrants with the imminent...
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Blackboard to Buy Two Education-Software... →
Sounds like Blackboard may end up being the only game in town when it is all said and done…
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Blackboard has a habit of aquiring an education-technology company every year, but this year it bought not one but two companies—both of which offer similar services for holding online courses and virtual office hours.
Today Blackboard Inc. announced plans to buy Elluminate,...
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On vacation, tech-loving kids -- and parents --... →
Something to think as I start my vacation…
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Two hours into another day of his family’s beach vacation, Brandon Hubacher had sent 50 text messages to his friends in Fairfax County.
“Chillen on the beach,” the 16-year-old messaged a buddy at 12:04 p.m., the ocean surf beckoning mere yards away.
“Luckyy” the friend zipped back.
Unplugging could not have been further from...
June 2010
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Work For Us Turns Facebook Fan Pages Into A... →
This type of integration within social networks is a growing trend. I think Colleges would be wise to look into this as a recruiting tool…
“Facebook is great for keeping up with friends. And of course brands are using it as marketing tool by creating Fan pages. But it can also be used by companies as a recruiting tool… Work For Us creates a tab on a company’s Fan page which...
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When anyone can be a published author →
Interesting article (but kind of long). Good description below.
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austinkleon:
Great article. Bottom line: there will always be gatekeepers, and the more and more books that get published, the more readers will look to gatekeepers to tell them what to read.
we’ll still wind up with a literary marketplace in which a handful of blockbuster names capture most of the sales and...
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WatchSomething about this made me laugh…
maniacalrage:
World’s First Short Film Made with iPhone 4 (View in HD)
I’m proud to release our newest short film, which we shot and edited with iMovie entirely on an iPhone 4.
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In California, license plates might go electronic →
Only in California!
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notentirely:
i was pretty sure that this was going to be the onion… it’s not
amomenttothink: No, no, NO!
The California Legislature is considering a bill that would allow the state to begin researching the use of electronic license plates for vehicles. The move is intended as a moneymaker for a state facing a $19 billion deficit.
The device would mimic...