Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

I’m in good company, as Keith Devlin is the first on that list and Veritasium’s Derek Muller is in there as well. What I do have issues with, is the single-minded insistence in this paper that Khan Academy is the exact same thing as the flipped classroom. I am not a critic of the idea of the flipped classroom.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, according to court documents filed Monday.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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