Hack (Higher) Education

The latest in my year-end series on the most important trends in ed-tech. Part Four: The Flipped Classroom

Part 3 in my end-of-year review of the top ed-tech trends. This one addresses Code Year and the popular notion in 2012 that "everyone should learn to code."

Part 2 of my year-end look at the important trends in ed-tech. This one: The Maker Movement (and the trend that, quite frankly, makes me most hopeful for the future)

The first in my year-end review, examining the major trends in ed-tech this year. Up first: the business of ed-tech

I don't get it. I don't understand the lure of the educational tablet. I say this, of course, as someone who relies heavily on her laptop every day and who just couldn't make an iPad "work" the same way. What are we missing out by pushing tablets onto students? (Or, conversely, what am I missing out by being so skeptical about them?)

A few thoughts on how venture capital investment works -- and doesn't work -- to fund open education projects.

The killer apps for education, argued Stanford University professor John Willinsky at last week’s Open Education Conference, will be built when we apply our lessons to our communities “so that the learning I do in school contributes to the public library and to the public knowledge of my community” — so that open education remains open.

Some thoughts on the recent Gawker article "outing" the identity of "the biggest troll on the Web." Should we name names of the trolls in academia? To what end?