[Photo by darkmatter] Keeping with Education Futures’ annual tradition, I released five predictions for global education in 2009 early last year. How did I do? Much better than my predictions for 2008! Let’s look: No Child Left Behind won’t get left behind. Contrary to all the data that shows that NCLB is a miserable failure, [...]

I like conceptual maps –tools for illustrating the relationships among ideas– and, Tero Heiskanen created an interesting one. It’s huge. Without any further commentary: Settlers of the shift is an open map of experts, organizations and ideas that are scattered around the globe. It’s for people whose work is shifting us towards a better tomorrow [...]

Open source collaborative content holds the promise of freely distributed high-quality education materials. Developing and sustaining the community to needed accomplish that is the difficult part.

Roberto Balaguer notes that a book we are collaborating on has captured the attention of the president of Uruguay: The website of the Presidency of the Republic [of Uruguay] takes the news. On Tuesday, in connection with the [Montevideo International] Book Fair, we held the pre-presentation of the book on Ceibal Plan and the OLPC [...]

Continuing a tradition that started last year, I am listing my predictions for the big stories that will impact the education world in 2009.  My predictions from last year were hit-and-miss, but I did well overall.  How will I fare this year? No Child Left Behind won’t get left behind.  Contrary to all the data [...]

[Photo by darkmatter] At the beginning of this year, I released five predictions for global education in 2008. How did I do? It’s a mixed bag, ranging from being completely off to spot on… with some surprises, too! Prediction #1: Largely driven by the moderate success of OLPC, Linux will emerge as the platform of [...]

This year’s EDUCAUSE report on IT trends (officially called the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2007 Summary Report) is out! Some highlights from the report, which covers higher education activities and trends in FY 2007: IT funding per full-time equivalent student varies greatly among institutions, with a mean funding amount at $1,551 –although the [...]

Fernando S. posted a Spanish translation of my Education 1.0 – Education 3.0 taxonomy at gabinetedeinformatica.net last week. The table has since appeared at quite a few other blogs in the Spanish-language blogosphere: Thanks, Fernando! (The English version of the table appears here.)

On April 16, I will join Dr. Cristóbal Cobo and colleagues at UNAM in Mexico City for an “Open source conference: From information to innovative knowledge.” I will frame my talk around my Education 1.0 – 3.0 taxonomy, and discuss how co-seminars/open seminars help to create relevant educational experiences for modern learners. Since I will [...]

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, University of Iowa students pedal backward on the global trend of opening access to information and knowledge: The University of Iowa has backtracked on a plan to post all graduate students’ theses online and make them freely available to the public. The reversal came in response to vigorous protests [...]