Classroom Technology Blog

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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research.

Education Opinion Computers Can Assess What Computers Do Best
Blended learning models depend upon computational assessment, but computers may not be able to assess what students most need to learn in school.
Justin Reich, April 29, 2014
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6 min read
Education Opinion The Ed-Tech Startup Bonanza and Fed Policy
The EdTech start-up boom is more a result of Federal Reserve monetary policy than changing conditions in schools or learners' lives.
Justin Reich, April 23, 2014
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1 min read
Education Opinion Nudging, Priming, and Motivating in Blended Learning
The first in a three post series on challenges and opportunities with blended learning: a emerging series of online interventions to boost motivation and engagement based on ideas from social psychology and behavioral economics.
Justin Reich, April 16, 2014
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4 min read
Education Opinion Blended Learning, But The Data Are Useless
The first in a three post series on challenges and opportunities with blended learning, starting with getting to actionable data.
Justin Reich, April 13, 2014
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3 min read
Education Opinion Big Data MOOC Research Breakthrough: Learning Activities Lead to Achievement
By taking massive stores of data and removing most nuance and complexity, researchers examining Udacity, edX, Google Course Builder, and Khan Academy conclusively demonstrate the obvious: that effort in online courses predicts achievement.
Justin Reich, March 30, 2014
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8 min read
Education Opinion What Path Will Your School Take?
From flipped classrooms to maker spaces, schools take diverse approaches to exploring education technology. Any of these pathways can lead to rethinking teaching and learning.
Justin Reich, March 24, 2014
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2 min read
Education Opinion Teacher Voices For Connected Learning
A review of the new e-book Teaching in the Connected Classroom from the National Writing Project and Digital Media and Learning Hub.
Justin Reich, March 11, 2014
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2 min read
Education Opinion The MOOC Moment and Its Impact on K-12 Education
Thoughts from an online learning summit of MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, and Stanford about the role elite institutions can play in shaping expectations throughout K-12 education.
Justin Reich, March 8, 2014
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4 min read
School & District Management Opinion Short Videos are Better for Learning, Right? Maybe Not.
Revisiting research, old and new, on optimal lecture length, and finding that we may know less than received wisdom would suggest.
Justin Reich, March 5, 2014
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4 min read
Education Opinion The Modern Story: Fellowship Opportunity
The Modern Story is a not-for-profit educational organization that bridges the technological and narrative divide by introducing digital skills and storytelling practices to youth and educators around the world.
Justin Reich, February 26, 2014
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3 min read
Education Opinion Seeing the Data: HarvardX Interactive Insights
Interactive visualizations that allow viewers to explore data related to enrollment, certification, geography, and demography in HarvardX and MITx courses.
Justin Reich, February 24, 2014
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2 min read
School & District Management Opinion Risk and Response: A conversation with danah boyd
Video recording of a conversation about understanding the networked age through the eyes of youth, and importance of looking carefully at how we measure and respond to risks.
Justin Reich, February 17, 2014
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2 min read
Education Opinion It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, a Review and a Webinar
A review of of danah boyd's recent book, the result of 10 years of research on the social lives of teens and the Internet, plus an opportunity to discuss the book with us on Friday, February 14th.
Justin Reich, February 10, 2014
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3 min read
Education Opinion Ed-Tech Sentences: Students and Teachers as Subjects, Devices as Direct Objects
Crafting our language around education technology to highlight that teachers and students are the actors rather than the devices.
Justin Reich, February 3, 2014
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1 min read
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