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Can You Teach Good Writing? We Ask One of the Greats, John McPhee
John McPhee, a master of telling nonfiction stories, became a teacher by accident 43 years ago when Princeton University needed a last-minute replace…
7 years, 8 months ago
Who Does Online Learning Really Serve?
Online education has been touted as a way to increase access to education. But it’s increasingly unclear if online learning is living up to its promi…
7 years, 8 months ago
How A Podcast-Turned-Startup Is Trying to Get Non-Traditional Students Into Tech
Some of the earliest and largest coding bootcamp programs shut their doors for good last year. And it left many people wondering if these short term …
7 years, 8 months ago
‘Prohibition Will Get You Nowhere’: Cory Doctorow’s Message to Schools and Educators
It’s not unheard of for an instructor to tee up a YouTube video for a lesson, only to have the content blocked by the school or district’s censorware…
7 years, 9 months ago
MOOCs are No Longer Massive. And They Serve Different Audiences Than First Imagined.
MOOCs have gone from a buzzword to a punchline, especially among professors who were skeptical of these “massive open online courses” in the first pl…
7 years, 9 months ago
The Secret Ingredient that Helps Schools, Educators and Students Learn
How good are schools at learning? Can they get better? As a culture, we worry a lot about student learning. But students don’t learn in a vacuum: Mo…
7 years, 9 months ago
What Students Want Colleges to Know About How They Learn
Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from co…
7 years, 9 months ago
Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change
People love to try to figure out what Apple is up to and to guess their strategy—that’s true for its education strategy as well. But often there’s n…
7 years, 10 months ago
Why One Professor Says We Are ‘Automating Inequality’
Often the algorithms that shape our lives feel invisible, but every now and then you really notice them. Your credit card might get declined when yo…
7 years, 10 months ago
This Accelerator Seeks To Scale Equity in Schools
Caroline Hill is a firecracker. She keynoted the Blended Learning Conference in Rhode Island and INACOL in Florida. At both events she asked educator…
7 years, 10 months ago