Perhaps the most distressing (or at least confounding) data of all for college officials, though, were in students' responses about the value of college.

mandate the use of "learning management systems."

“I want somebody to fight!” Crouch said. “These things are not cheap -- 300 grand or something like that? ... I want people to want it! When you’re trying to buy something, you want them to work at it! [Instructure] just didn’t.”

(I would add that the message, “Hey, it’s no big deal to us if we lose some adopters” is not a great one for members of the community who feel like their needs are not being met.)

Capable of including multimedia, annotation, and interaction

if cross-format identifiers like DOIs are used, annotations made in one format (eg, EPUB) can be seen in the same document published in other formats (eg, HTML, PDF) and in other locations.

Note that Speak the Words only works in Chrome. 

At UMW, the vast majority of our students’ work on Domain of One’s Own happens within WordPress, and increasingly I admit I worry about this.

We don’t know whether millennials are actually a distinctive generation.

uncertainty is bad news for the user base

The best way to attract and grow an audience for political content on the world’s biggest social network is to eschew factual reporting and instead play to partisan biases using false or misleading information that simply tells people what they want to hear.

That's why BI Intelligence has spent months creating the most exhaustive resource on not just education, but the entire IoT: The Internet of Things: Examining How The IoT Will Affect The World.

But education is far from the only area of our lives that the IoT will transform. Transportation, energy, homes, healthcare, and more will all feel the touch of the IoT in the coming years.

Colin Mathews is founder and president of Merit, a technology company focused on creating and sharing stories about students’ successes.

Users not only need to be trained on the proper ways to use these tools and communicate with students, they also require meaningful incentives to take on the potentially steep learning curve.[40]

Some of the other benefits include: Permits for peer review. Fulfills social responsibility of offering education to all. Increases standard of educational resources. Improves a university’s status and that of the researcher or educators.

this article is particularly concerned with the ways that uncritical adoption of educational technologies adversely impacts the autonomy of students and teachers within the shared enterprise of learning

if you are still reading these lines

if you are still reading these lines

The Trending algorithm is clearly not ready for prime time

there’s only a fine line between “WordPress in Higher Education” and “WordPress in the Enterprise”.

leading to Dollar Shave Club capturing 15% of U.S. cartridge share last year

“Like the Web” is perhaps a good place to start, don’t get me wrong,

ed-tech hasn’t really changed much in schools

The military’s contributions to education technology are often overlooked

A J Angulo is the author of Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers and the American Dream

there is some disparity and implicit bias

The real innovation that we need in schools has little to do with technologies or tools or products designed to improve our teaching.

perpetuating two negative attitudes

meaningful learning never requires technology

at a time when the public opinion of the media is at an all-time low, which all serves to make today’s announcement even thornier

Facebook is a social network, not a cable news network

(The Gates Foundation is among the funders of the Hechinger Report.)

At the institution level, the course isn’t successful.

I was at the Apereo conference this month

Teamann and her staff are using a data dashboard called Aware, from Plano, Texas-based Eduphoria, to monitor the growth of their students.

This brings us to the university model