In the News: On the Nevada Ready 21 1:1 Laptop Program
As quoted in: Schwartz, Sarah. “Nevada Recommits Funding for State 1-to-1 Program.” Education Week. 21 September 2017. “While those sound like common-sense steps for folks […]
Personalized Learning a Big Challenge in High School Redesign, RAND Finds
A new RAND evaluation of Opportunity by Design high schools found barriers to customizing instruction and implementing "mastery-based" progressions.
4 Surprising Ways Video Is Changing Education
In today’s world, the influence of video is unparalleled. People around the world spend billions every year on the movie industry. YouTube alone streams over […]
The link between basic research and innovation
When it comes to funding and resourcing innovation, it is crucial to identify the importance of various phases of innovation. For instance, pure research can […]
Stop Planning, Start Doing: Why Researching Your Course Content is Holding You Back
Great courses have been well researched and are brimming with useful, implementable and factually correct information. So of course a bit of research is going […]
#phd shelfie-blog challenge
The image is a bit of a spoiler! #PhDShelfie has appeared on Twitter. Followed by shelfie-blog and an invitation from Julie Blake @felthamgirl to join in. I’m easily […]
DC: Look at how many times these CIO’s mention that they’re tapping into streams of content
From DSC: When you read the article below, notice how many times these CIO’s mention that they’re tapping into streams of content How […]
Three reasons ed researchers should create digitally
I have a large digital footprint with hundreds of blog posts and video series with over 100,000 views. In addition I put everything I publish […]
Ranking the best research institutes
Earlier this year Reuters released the latest version of their league table to rank the most innovative universities and research institutions in the world. The […]
Artificial intelligence will transform universities. Here’s how. [Dodgson & Gann]
Artificial intelligence will transform universities. Here’s how. — from weforum.org by Mark Dodgson & David Gann Excerpt: The most innovative AI breakthroughs, and the companies […]
Taking Academic Research To Market
Getting research produced by universities translated into new products and services has been an ongoing challenge for academia, industry and indeed government for some time […]
The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning
I have been critical of the treatment of technology in both the 2015 and 2016 Education Next back-to-school polls for a variety of reasons. Credit […]
