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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research.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
Are Freshmen Ready for College Research?
A recent report from Project Information Literacy identifies the challenges that college freshmen face as they tackle their first major research projects.
Education
Opinion
The Truthiness of MOOC Completion Rates
When Stephen Colbert tried to destroy HarvardX by promoting open online courses on his show.
Education
Opinion
The First Year of edX: Research Findings to Inform Online Learning
Sixteen new working papers summarize research from the first year of HarvardX and MITx.
Education
Opinion
Evaluation in Context: Advice for Educational Non-Profits on Telling Stories with Data
A brief, prepared for grantees of the McCormick Foundation's Why News Matters program, about developing evaluation programs to improve services and demonstrate to fund-raisers and philanthropists the importance of the work.
Education
Opinion
The First Year of HarvardX: Public Talk January 21
Timed with the release of the first set of working papers from HarvardX and MITx, Justin Reich is giving a public, livestreamed talk on January 21 at 6pm.
Education
Opinion
Defining and Teaching News Literacy
The Youth and Media Lab at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society releases a series of four reports about the future of News Literacy.
Education
Opinion
The Lure of the Technological Sublime: Morozov and the Makers
Evgeny Morosov writes a broader history of the Maker movement with important insights for those hoping to infuse Maker culture into schools.
School & District Management
Opinion
Picture Pages: The Original Toddler Proto-MOOC
Examine Bill Cosby's Picture Pages through the discursive lens of pre-literate reader proto-MOOCs.
Education
Opinion
An Open Letter: Let's Start the Discourse Over on MOOCs
Hoping for a little less rhetoric and a little more nuance in the conversation about high-scale, low-touch technologies in 2014.
Education
Opinion
Noticing and Blogging with Student-Teachers
Exploring what student-teachers learn from blogging about their classroom observations.
Education
Opinion
Four Types of MOOC Research
Fishing experiments in the exhaust, experiments in the periphery, MOOC-thropology in the Field, and Design Research in the Core
Education
Opinion
Reading Grab Bag: Flipped Discussion, iPad Simulations, MOOCs, and the Cognitive Tutor Study
Comments on a PBS NewsHour story, a research study on astronomy simulations targeting understanding of the massive dimensions of space, a readable summary of an important and nuanced research study on a blended learning platform, and a new short e-book on MOOCs.
Education
Opinion
PBS NewsHour Showcases the Flipped High School
Commentary on a NewsHour report focusing on Clintondale High School's flipped classroom initiative.
Education
Opinion
Psychologists Prove That Video Games Are Good For You
Parsing a meta-analysis of research studies that highlights a few proven benefits of specific game-playing practices and many potential benefits worth exploring further.