Paul LeBlanc and George Siemens are teaming up to explore how AI is going to change higher education. "LeBlanc transformed SNHU from 2500 students in 2003 to over 200,000 students in 20 years by using technology to switch delivery online." Siemens is one of the proposers of connectivism - a theory...
Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment: In a recent debate with Stephen Downes, I spent some time going through dozens of papers and meta-studies showing that the lecture is a larg...
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Video for learning is great at some things, not so great at others. Great summary of recent evidence from Donald Clark. What can we learn from Netflix? (Use technology appropriately not just the buzzwords) Episodic vs. Semantic memory (Remembering the right things from video isn't as easy as you think)...
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Breakthrough that literally opens up online learning? Using AI for free text input: When teachers ask learners whether they know something they rarely ask them multiple choice questions. Yet the MCQ remains the staple in on...
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Donald Clark Plan B: Research shows Good Behaviour Game is constructivist nonsense
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Donald Clark Plan B: Agile production – online learning needs to get its skates on
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20 important takeaways for learning world from Mary Meeker's brilliant tech trends: Mary Meeker’s slide deck has a reputation of being the Delphic Oracle of tech. But, at 294 slides it’s a lot to take in. Don’t worry, I...
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Donald Clark Plan B: A/B testing shows that Pavlovian gamification does not work
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Donald Clark Plan B: Kirkpatrick evaluation: kill it - happy sheet nonsense, well past its sell-by-date
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Donald Clark Plan B: Tutorbots are here - 7 ways they could change the learning landscape "[tutorbots] at last is a form of technology that teachers can appreciate, as it truly tries to improve on what they already do. It takes good teaching as its standard and tries to eliminate and streamline...
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Donald Clark Plan B: Obama’s last act – recommendations on AI in learning
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Donald Clark Plan B: Scrap your company values and replace with 'Don't be a dick!'... the rest is hubris
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Donald Clark Plan B: Snapchat’s smart pivot into an AR company but is AR ready for learning?
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Donald Clark Plan B: 10 ways Pokemon Go portends AR in learning
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Donald Clark Plan B: Leadership BS - why the leadership industry is a Ponzi scheme
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Donald Clark Plan B: The LMS is dead, long live the LMS! (10 pros & 10 cons)
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Donald Clark Plan B: 10 powerful results from Adaptive (AI) learning trial at ASU
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10 ways MOOCs have forced Universities into a rethink. "MOOCs have made us think. As one of the most fascinating developments in
higher education in my lifetime, they are,in many ways, a pioneer of a
more ‘open’ spirit
in learning. I’d contend that MOOCs, for all their promises and faults,...
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Unified theory of ‘learning’ emerges – and it’s mind blowing. "You’ve
probably never heard of James Mark Baldwin, yet he turned out be one of the greats in learning theory. A 19th century psychologist, he
introduced what is called the ‘Baldwin Effect’ into evolutionary theory."
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Donald Clark Plan B: Chomsky on education & learning – curiously utopian and elitist?
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