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Argos Education is Winding Down

eLiterate

The current venture funding market conditions proved too difficult for us to raise the money that we needed. We helped create and coordinate an open-source coalition that preserved tens of millions of dollars worth of grant-funded courseware that would have been stranded when Smart Sparrow was end-of-lifed. Our legacy.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

Here the three presenters reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the first symposium on ‘Networks’. That vocabulary must be challenging, so that it provokes new thinking, but it must not be overly technical or oriented towards engineering or architectural concerns. What might this look like?

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Can Video Games Provide Meaningful Learning Experiences?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Develop a healthy skepticism about how popular culture depicts the past while learning how to assess the games’ accuracies and inaccuracies. Topics that many video games address include the development of trading networks, military and geopolitical diplomatic maneuvering and the influence of geography and technology.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Pivots to corporate learning and development haven’t produced many great successes (although they have enabled some start-ups that would have folded to scrape along). Last year, nearly half of all EdTech funding went to one company —BYJU’S—which is now struggling to make its debt payments. The start-up picture is brutal.