Back to the Future: Distance Learning, Correspondence Schools, and Pandemics
Converge Magazine reported that the World Future Society predicted that one of the ten breakthrough technologies that “will transform life as we currently know it” is distance education. I was amused because (1) it has already transformed so many people’s […]
Learning from Renowned Chefs
“Taste, taste, taste,” was the advice of Chef Jody Adams from the Rialto Restaurant in Cambridge, MA. And “know who your customers are”. When was the last time you did the e-learning equivalent and sampled one of your own courses […]
Perishable Learning
Recently I learned how to put together a memorial service and how to make cotton candy. The former was for the sad occasion of my father’s death and the latter was for my daughter’s elementary school fair. The commonalities are […]
Can the Best of Informal Learning Simultaneously Be the Worst Thing for Cognitive Processes?
It struck me recently that mobile learning (or m-learning) is no longer a discipline within e-learning because of the ubiquity, enhanced screen size, and improved display quality of mobile devices. Remember when it was worthy of a press release when […]
Professionals Use Searches to Locate Graduate Programs
Not only has technology “dramatically changed the way students experience university life,” according to The Guardian, it has impacted how they learn about schools. College selection has progressed far beyond browsing college catalogs in the library, although the many online […]