Mike Caulfield is the director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University, Vancouver (WSU). He regularly blogs about edtech topics at Hapgood. He is an expert on informal learning, online communities and open educational resources. Throughout … Read more
Whether you are packing your bags to attend an edtech conference and looking forward to all the interesting meetings, talks and ideas the event will spark, or you are on your return journey and contemplating how to share … Read more
In September 2018 Gráinne Conole started in her new role as Professor and Head of Open Education at the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University (NIDL). Prior to her current position, the native Irish scholar … Read more
Open Education Studies is a new open access journal by De Gruyter, with Theo Bastiaens as the editor in chief. The 2019 topical issue is focused on ‘Design Thinking for Education’. Design thinking is a problem solving method … Read more
Figure 1. A Hoaxy® diffusion network regarding claims about the HPV vaccine. Falsehoods are spread due to biases in the brain, society, and computer algorithms (Ciampaglia & Menczer, 2018). A combined problem is “information overload and limited attention … Read more
Does this ever happen to you? You become hands-on with a new technology and have fun making your first project, and sharing it. You encounter inspirational ideas about what to do next, but somehow the options seem overwhelming. … Read more
Whether you write conference paper or prepare your manuscript for a journal submission, a well presented review of the literature together with correct citations and references significantly increase your chances to be accepted. Furthermore, it will make it … Read more
I attended Appalachian State University’s (AppState) 1-day, virtual, Free-Learning Conference in July. Their website stated it would be “…a day of exploration designed to promote and evaluate effective uses of technology for teaching and learning while also providing … Read more
The annual Teaching and Learning Conference at Elon University is a free, regional event that brings together instructional designers, teachers, students, curriculum specialists and others interested in educational technology and pedagogical approaches from the research triangle in North … Read more
Celebrities and fashion icons are well-informed about the role of online identity and visual appearances, but it is time educators rethought the way their students and colleagues perceive them. Despite the popularity of tweets, chatrooms and discussion forums, … Read more