technology Tag

12 Oct

Posted at 16:53h in Collegiate, Humanities, K-12, Tips on Courseware Creation

The central educational issue this article intends to illuminate is how to conflate education in the western intellectual tradition and Open Educational Resources (OER) to make such an education available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. An education in the western tradition abounds with timeless ideas, old books, and scholars, and by nature it is slow to adopt a new influence especially if it seems hypermodern. This longstanding mistrust regarding the use of digital technology to educate youth in great ideas can and should be overcome for great advantage while assuring achievement of the intended ends of a classical education. Recent advances...

11 Oct

Posted at 03:25h in Entrepreneurship

David Havens on edSurge published a list of questions, 51 to be exact, every edtech entrepreneur must answer as they launch their products for the educational sphere. Havens explains: "For entrepreneurs--from whom pitching is inevitable--these questions offer valuable insights into the priorities and perspectives of educators and business leaders on edtech."...