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Tag Archives: open architecture
WVU’s Super Wi-Fi and the Wireless Future Project
Sara Grossman’s article about super wi-fi at West Virginia University is one of the more hopeful things I’ve read online in a while. The idea of WVU and the Wireless Future Project (led by Michael Calabrese) teaming up to provide free … Continue reading
Open Architecture, a Vision Beyond the Massive Hype
When Instructure hired Jared Stein a year ago my faith in them multiplied exponentially. Jared is as smart a person as I’ve met working in this space, and he not only understands the field of edtech intimately, but he can … Continue reading
Open Architecture: Our Course Could be Your Life
With the recently peaked interest in open online learning, the conversation seems to have moved immediately towards the shock and awe of scaling an architecture for 30 thousand to 1 million students. I signed up for a Coursera course more … Continue reading