Conference deadline extension statistics
Anyone who publishes in conferences knows the pain of making sacrifices to meet a deadline, only to find at the last moment that it has been extended. Year after year of these extensions and people...
View ArticleUsability testing gets easier and easier
Your product is useless if no one can use it. But how do you know how usable it is? You can try it yourself, but you are not the user. (“You are not the user” is practically a mantra here at HCII.)...
View ArticleOER Copyright Survey
Educators enjoy certain greater freedoms under copyright law’s Fair Use Doctrine, and such the culture of exchange in education is pretty lax. In a workshop recently in which I discussed Qcommons...
View ArticleIntroducing QCommons: Chemistry
After a long summer of programming and design, the first output of the QCommons research project is ready for the world. I will blog more about QCommons in general, but today I’d like to tell you...
View ArticleQCommons opens to all content areas
Today I rolled out a big update to QCommons, implementing support for many more content areas than Chemistry. The key new feature is groups. Each group has its own set of content, its own forums, and...
View ArticlePreparing more people for a diverse future
The TED Talks lecture series is a wonderful intellectual and cultural resource. I’ve been a fan for years and on this long weekend relished the opportunity to catch up on some I’ve had in my queue. One...
View ArticleQrumbs proposal to Digital Media and Learning Competition
The MacArthur Foundation is sponsoring a competition for innovative Digital Media and Learning applications. I had learned of it through my colleague Derek Lomas who won last year for his Playpower...
View ArticleHow to make the ideal conference badge
Here is the main principle to bear in mind when designing a badge: The purpose of the badge is to help people connect. Participant's names should be biggest thing on the badge and then affiliation....
View ArticleHow to fix schools
The Kauffman Foundation released its latest “think” video sketch, a three-minute talk by Katherine Merseth of the Harvard Grad School of Ed on “fixing schools.” (via Edsurge) A particularly cogent and...
View ArticleMasters in Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science (METALS)
Carnegie Mellon University has a new Masters program in edtech with an emphasis on learning science. Seems like a great way to train for a growing field: The Professional Masters in Educational...
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