All posts by Henry Kronk
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DeVos Wants to Make it Harder for Defrauded Students to Receive Loan Forgiveness
January 04, 2018 Henry Kronk
While for-profit deregulation seems by and large to be a project for DeVos, the head of her administration also has some skin in…
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Coalition Aims to Bridge the Digital Divide with Unused Broadband Frequencies
January 04, 2018 Henry Kronk
In answer to this growing digital divide, a new coaltion dubbed Connect Americans Now (CAN) has sought to begin constructing a bridge. Made…
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This Week in eLearning: UMass, Augmented Reality, and What Is ‘Open’?
January 03, 2018 Henry Kronk
In 2015, virtual reality (VR) appeared ready to take off in education. In the end, VR never did find its footing in educational…
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Confused about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency? Extra Credit Has Its Own Coin and an Online Learning Platform to Help You Use It
January 03, 2018 Henry Kronk
But while it made several investors rich, many also struggled to understand it. The terms ‘blockchain,’ ‘cryptocurrency,’ and the ‘mining’ of bitcoin aren’t…
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What Is ‘Open’? Openwashing and the Half-Truths About Openness
January 01, 2018 Henry Kronk
The term openwashing, as defined by Audrey Watters, is “having an appearance of open-source and open-licensing for marketing purposes, while continuing proprietary practices.”…
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2017 in Review: Learning Management Systems (LMS)
December 27, 2017 Henry Kronk
With K-12 and higher ed learning management systems (LMS), however, there is just one story: Blackboard is on the way out while Canvas…
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As the Feds Deregulate For-Profit Education, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Keeps Watch
December 26, 2017 Henry Kronk
While Schneiderman’s target of choice might have sent a somewhat tone-deaf message, his moves should be welcomed by American learners. As his state…
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A MOOC for Drone Pilots
December 23, 2017 Henry Kronk
It will run between January 22nd and February 4th and go over material such as equipment, airspace, flight planning tools, and the legal…
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Attitudes Toward Mobile Learning Split Down Socioeconomic Lines
December 22, 2017 Henry Kronk
In 2012, the learning management system (LMS) giant, Blackboard, released a report detailing how the use of mobile learning and social media can…
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This Year in eLearning: Coding Bootcamps, Virtual High Schools, and Everything Else
December 21, 2017 Henry Kronk
There's no way to successfully encapsulate the world of eLearning in 2017. But we can try. The trends among coding bootcamps and virtual…
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