Article on Transformation in Higher Ed

Hot off the press, here is an article from our Workshop guest and keynote, Anya Kamenetz: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/who-needs-harvard.html.

Anya reports on the "Edupunk" movement, one that might at first sound a bit flash in the pan, but that has been around, morphing and gathering steam for some years. (In fact, as I showed in a couple of presentations and an Open Educational Resource on the subject, Edupunk's combination of technology, openness and disruption has a quite respectable genealogy, from Palo Friere to the "Experimental University Center" at the Vincennes in Paris).

I definitely don't think that the university will be irrelevant in 2020, as one of Kamenetz' sources predicts, but I know there is much to learn from the experiments and initiatives that the young "edupreneurs" she reports on are undertaking.

-N

Welcome to TRU Blended Learning

I've set up this blog in anticipation of our June 14th workshop on Blended Learning at TRU.

I'll be posting resources, thoughts and materials that will be (hopefully!) discussed at the workshop.

Looking forward to sharing with you all!

-Norm