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When should video replace discussion boards?

Bryan Alexander

Jeffrey Young raises this prospect in a provocative EdSurge article. and broadband. Beyond this +/- comparison, I wonder about combining text and video. Should we transform discussion boards from text to video? What would we lose or gain when students converse through video recordings instead of written comments?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ FCC Delays Are Keeping Broadband From Rural School Kids,” says Wired. I’d love to see a comparison between Pluralsight and Lynda.com.). National) Education Politics. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The U.S. Trenholm, B.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

One of the challenges of writing this series – and trust me, there are many – is separating my analysis out into ten articles that name ten distinct “trends.” So I’m including a lot of events in this article that are not “ed-tech” per se. “Tech” and the Presidential Election.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. " I will do that in a separate article at the end of the year. This is part three of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” Oh, there’s a raft of privacy-violating stuff in almost every section in this article, I reckon. National) Education Politics. Billion in 2017.”