The Consensus Around “Open”

Yesterday EdSurge published an opinion piece by Stephen Laster, the Chief Digital Officer at McGraw-Hill Education, titled The Future of Education Isn’t Free. It’s Open. The article makes a strong argument for the importance of interoperability among learning platforms, tools, and content. I enthusiastically and wholeheartedly endorse this message – interoperability of platforms, tools, and resources … Read more

A Biological Bloom’s Taxonomy

Last week I read a really incredible paper published as OA in Nature titled, The global landscape of cognition: hierarchical aggregation as an organizational principle of human cortical networks and functions. In addition to breaking some terrific new methodological ground, the paper provides a first glimpse at what we might call a “Biological Bloom’s Taxonomy.” The … Read more

Books I Read in 2015

Martin’s post has inspired me to share the books I read in 2015, though I have not made the time to produce useless charts like he did. 🙂 I must say that, after staying healthy, the biggest benefit of running is all the audio books I manage to read. Some things on my list are only in print … Read more