How Disruptive Thinking Changes Education
This is the presentation Michael Horn from the Innosight Institute is giving the members of the Interoperability Forum in Washington, DC this morning. You can follow along by looking at the #intop hashtag on Twitter.
At The Moment of Teaching, Part I
This is part one of a two part video series that we will be running today on edReformer. It's brought to you by the members of Agilix, who are hosting the Interoperability Forum in Washington, DC. The forum is in effort to break down the barriers that many entrepreneurs believe are keeping real innovation from happening in education.
Emerging Markets on Parity with American Ed System?
What makes this story interesting is not that Agilix is doing something with MSFT. What makes it interesting is that right now the emerging markets world and the industrialized nations are 50-50 when it comes to their uptake of MSFT servers and equipment that can enable personalized learning. Who would have thought...
Don’t kill the guys that will make the US #1 again
Harkin follows the lead of a short-selling hedge fund manager and attacks private colleges; in doing so he's working against the president's completion goal of being 1st in the world by 2020.
MA "Innovation" Regs Block Innovation
Disastrous online learning regs considered in MA provides no waivers, limits enrollment to local districts and limits size to 500 students. This is one place where small schools is a dumb idea.
Unfair Virtual Schools Funding in GA, Group Claims
A parent organization in Georgia claims that the State of Georgia is not allocating appropriate levels of funding to virtual schools, despite a state law that mandates it should.
Berkery Noyes Information Industry Half Year Reports
You can read the summaries of four Information and Media industry half year reports inside, or you can click on the links after each summary and download the pdfs to take them with you.
Design Fix
Joel Rose, CEO of School of One in New York City, answers questions in the run up to the Innovate to Education Symposium being held by SIIA at the Harvard Club in Boston August 4-6, 2010. For more information on the symposium and to register, please see details inside.
Tangible Research is a Business Education
Guest blogger Hawwa Mohammad, who works with the Newark Center for Collaborative Change, explains how universities are commercializing research by linking professorial ideas with real business. The point is, pairing research and learning with business is a good idea, because universities are the nexus for community involvement.
Personalize and Deliver
As a prelude to the Innovate to Educate Symposium in Boston on August 4-6, 2010, we run another in a series of interviews with personalized learning experts. Here we ask Howard Gardner to tell us about his vision for personalized learning in an age of education reform. Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Professor for Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.