| | | | | 1. Short-Throw Projection—Freeing Up Teachers with More Flexible Projection Options | via AV Technology
The days of teaching with the bright glare of the projector directly in the eyes of professors and teaching assistants are over. With the advent of high-quality short-throw projectors, they can relax and actually make eye contact with their students as they explain the details of everything from the defenestration of Prague to how top quarks form. | | Why This Matters: Short-throw projectors offer unique benefits over their long-throw counterparts. In this AV Technology article, Brian Nadel explains how moving projection to the front of the room gives educators more flexibility and mobility. | | | | 2. Accrediting the Bootcamp: The Transformational Impact of Career College Status | via The EvoLLLution
Coding bootcamps have experienced astonishing growth since they hit the higher education scene in 2012. Capitalizing on the critical labor market need for skilled coders, a lack of coding training in the education ecosystem and the tendency for today’s students to be focused on workforce applicability, bootcamps entered the postsecondary space at exactly the right time to be successful. One major knock on these education providers, however, has been their relative lack of regulation and their expense. | | Why This Matters: Bootcamps have been gaining major traction, but they face one massive roadblock: their lack of standards and accreditation. Could institutional partnerships be the answer these alternative credentials need to move forward? | | | | 3. Microfiche Was the Dawn of Multimedia Research | via EdTech Magazine
For college students researching today, finding the area or section in a long paper or article that is applicable to them is easy as hitting Ctrl F. | | Why This Matters: How about a stroll down edtech memory lane? Back in the day, research via technology meant pouring over microfiche for hours. EdTech Magazine regales us with the history of this early multimedia tool. |
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"Potentially, when you add deliberate openness into the mix you get models which include users as people rather than seeing them just as data points. While digital and networked got us so far, that may have been just a first stage, and with that foundation there is room to explore open models on top of this." —Martin Weller, The Ed Techie |
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