Sugata Mitra’s keynote yesterday at EDUCAUSE 2016 may have alienated half of the room he meant to excite. Rousing the IT portion of the crowd with a speech that positioned technology front and center as the new and primary hero in education, he may have inadvertently caused every faculty member in attendance to question their […]
Ever wonder what exactly competency-based education (CBE) means for higher education, and how it fits within existing traditional credit hour courses? Discover the answers to these questions and much more during the collaborative session “A Lightning Round Look at Competency-Based Education” at the upcoming EDUCAUSE Connect event in San Antonio. Our own Emily Wood, Instructional […]
We are counting down the days until we hit the road again. This time, you can find us at OLC’s Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium in Dallas where we will talk about Competency-Based Education and other instructional strategies. The three-day event gathers more than 700 onsite and 1,000 virtual faculty, administrators, instructional technologists, […]
The October 2014 issue of CIO Review is out, and we are proud to announce that Helix Education is included among the 20 Most Promising Education Technology Service Providers. Kudos to our team and our technology for helping us gain this recognition! The issue includes a nice profile of Helix Education, focusing on our ability […]