Many post-secondary institutions have a space dedicated to providing ed-tech and pedagogical support for faculty. Sometimes that space is an empty chair in the office of the “LMS guy”, but if it’s a dedicated lab, you can bet someone is… Continue reading
Motion designer Jacob Richardson posted an “animation breakdown” in r/Design which illustrates some of the techniques he used to create his videos. In the comments, he explains that he used Illustrator and After Effects, and he very generously provided his… Continue reading
Digital Video, the company behind the animation software Toonz, has made their software open source and free to download. OpenToonz is the same software used to produce Futurama and many other well-known animated productions. “One of Digital Video’s goals in… Continue reading
Christine Ortiz, dean for graduate education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is planning a new kind of non-profit university. She expects to replace the lectures and classrooms with “huge project spaces” while the lectures, or “knowledge acquisition”, would move online and take… Continue reading
Dr. Ruben Puentedura is the man behind the SAMR model, a popular framework for integrating technology into teaching. Puentedura claims to have developed the SAMR model after a decade of research and considerable effort trying to track down data so he could… Continue reading
It works like this: Knewton presents video and a variety of written content and then asks multiple-choice questions. Based on student responses, and patterns of responses from other, similar students, the next piece of content is served up.
Lauren Weinstein provides an illustrated look into the neurology lab of University of Pennsylvania physicist and McArthur Fellow, Dani Bassett. Bassett is using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology and network science to build detailed models of the networks in our… Continue reading
Harvard Business School has converted a Boston television studio into a virtual online classroom that streams student faces across a bank of 60 screens in real time. The project took two years to complete, and required assistance from architecture and… Continue reading
PhET (Physics Education Technology) is an open educational resource (OER) project at the University of Colorado Boulder that provides “fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations.” Although the program began in 2002 with physics in mind, it has since… Continue reading
Despite its continued popularity, there is no evidence supporting the utility of a “learning-styles” approach to education. Below is a quote from the summary of Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence. The contrast between the enormous popularity the learning-styles approach within… Continue reading