EdTech Researcher
Justin Reich is the executive director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the co-founder of EdTechTeacher. Beth Holland is a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University and an instructor at EdTechTeacher. Douglas Kiang has over 25 years of teaching experience at all grade levels and currently teaches computer science at Punahou School. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research.
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Are Schools Wastelands or Wonderlands?
Contrasting two keynote presentations from Will Richardson and Jennie Magiera at the EdTechTeacher Summit in Chicago at the end of July.
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Results from the 2017 Khan Academy Study
Predicting the results from a recently awarded three-year grant to study the implementation of Khan Academy in community colleges.
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The Ethics of Educational Experiments
Considering how the ethics of educational research might change in an era of expanding online learning.
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Intelligent Tutors, Past and Present
Responding to critique of an article about intelligent tutors that Justin Reich posted recently in the New Yorker.
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MOOCs and the Science of Learning
Precis and video of a luncheon talk at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society examine the current state of the field in MOOC research as it relates to learning.
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Free, Online, Summer, Digital Arts Courses for Youth
Two free courses for youth about coding with Scratch and digital photography and image production.
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Call for Submissions: Youth Stories About Life Online
An opportunity for youth to submit to a ebook about Youth and the Internet from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and UNICEF.
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The Asilomar Convention: Revisiting Research Ethics and Learning Science
Last week, a group from a diverse set of higher education institutions released a first draft of the Asilomar Convention, a document attempting to guide ethical decision-making in advancing higher education research. The Convention was composed by researchers, administrators, privacy advocates and others, in an effort to launch a dialogue about how best to advance the science of learning in the digital age. I was one of the folks chiming in on the conversation, and what follows is my own sense of what we were aiming for; others might have a different perspective.
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Guest Post: Why We Went Google Apps
Jen Carey of the Ransom Everglades school explains why they recently adopted Google Apps for Education.
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Looking at Student Work with MathMistakes.org
Using content from MathMistakes.org to help pre-service teachers get in the habit of looking closely at student work.
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MITx and HarvardX Release De-Identified Dataset from First Year of MOOCs
An explanation of how HarvardX and MITx release a de-identified dataset for other researchers to use.
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The Role of Humans in Blended Learning
Mica Pollack and her colleagues from UCSD share new research about the importance of teachers in blended learning environments that highlights the strengths and limits of online tools.
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The Making of a HarvardX Course
Reviewing a recent Boston Globe article about course creation at HarvardX.
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Educators: Defend Net Neutrality!
Read this, then call the FCC to defend Net Neutrality, by asking the FCC to reclassify Internet Service Providers as common carriers.