Monthly Archives: April 2014

MOOCs?

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Mike

Udacity is throwing in the towel on MOOCs with the company’s founder, Sebastian Thrun, declaring that they don’t work for higher education. I described in a recent column in Educational Technology how the primary advantage of MOOCs is that they … Continue reading →

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LTI is Helping

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Mike

We are working with with the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Specification in the ARCLITE Lab I direct at Brigham Young University (BYU). This article addresses the future of this specification from the IMS Global Learning Consortium: LTI Standard Promises a Kinder, … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates Talks Tech

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Mike

I have been a fan of Bill Gates for many years now, every since I met and chatted with him on a couple of occasions in 1986 and 1987 at the First Microsoft International Conference on CD-ROM. Work I did … Continue reading →

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The Flipped Classroom: Getting Serious

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Mike

For various reasons the flipped classroom is of particular interest to me. While accountability in any enterprise is one of the key elements of success. what students do outside of the classroom is one of the least accountable aspects of education … Continue reading →

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