Tag Archives: Educational technology

Apple is Playing the Long Game with iBooks 2 and iTunesU App

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Phil Hill

When Apple made the iBooks Author / iBooks2 / iTunesU app announcement on January 19th, there were many arguments for and against their implied educational market strategy. In the educational technology community, two of the most intense arguments why Apple’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Bloggers, Higher Education, LMOS, Notable Posts, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged Apple, Educational technology, iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iPad, iTunesU | 5 Comments

Social Learning Tools Are Fine, But Not Critical For All Educational Models

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Phil Hill

We are in a high point of investment and interest in the application of technology to innovate education, and a lot of attention has been paid to the new class of learning platforms that have social tools at the center … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital Democracy, Guest Bloggers, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Notable Posts, Openness | Tagged credentialing, Educational technology, Learning platforms, MOOC, Phil Hill, traditional education | 6 Comments

Great Title, Flawed Post – Khan Academy Enables Out-of-the-Box Approaches

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Phil Hill

There was a very interesting article at Huffington Post today that I suspect is rapidly making the rounds through the blogosphere. Given the author and title of the post, “What Silicon Valley Executives Keep Getting Wrong About Education” by Dr. … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Digital Democracy, Guest Bloggers, Instructional Design, Notable Posts, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged Dr. Keith Devlin, Educational technology, Flipped Classroom, Huffington Post, Khan Academy, Phil Hill, Vinod Khosla | 3 Comments

Farewell to the Enterprise LMS, Greetings to the Learning Platform

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Phil Hill

Along with others, I have written several times over the past 12 months here, here, here and here about the significant changes occurring in the educational LMS market. In my opinion, when we look back on market changes, 2011 will stand … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Guest Bloggers, Higher Education, LMOS, Notable Posts, Openness | Tagged Educational technology, Learning Platform, LMS, LMS market, Phil Hill | 3 Comments

The Tide is Turning – SOPA May Not Make It Out of Committee

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Phil Hill

Over the past few days, there have been three significant developments that indicate the tide is turning on SOPA (and the Senate version, PIPA). As I have written previously, SOPA poses a threat to open education and educational technology in … Continue reading →