Starred in Pocket:
https://www.classcentral.com/report/introducing-cohorts/

From internal study groups to public study groups to an 8,000 learner bootcamp, Class Central’s social learning experiment has come a long way. Now, it’s evolving into its next phase: Class Central Cohorts.

Introducing Class Central Cohorts: Social Learning for Open Courses — Class Central

After Study Groups and Bootcamp, Cohorts represent a new milestone in our social learning experiment.

The Report by Class Central

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-17/google-s-new-green-campus-brings-sustainability-to-silicon-valley

Sundar Pichai wants to head the first giant company run without emissions around the clock. It will take far more than money to achieve They curve down gently from pinched peaks, like circus tents, sloping almost to the ground.

Google's CEO Pichai Opens Up on the Company's Biggest Moonshot Yet

It will take far more than money to achieve.

Bloomberg.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/39/19251

Despite active learning being recognized as a superior method of instruction in the classroom, a major recent survey found that most college STEM instructors still choose traditional teaching methods.

Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom

Despite active learning being recognized as a superior method of instruction in the classroom, a major recent survey found that most college STEM instructors still choose traditional teaching methods. This article addresses the long-standing question of why students and faculty remain resistant to active learning. Comparing passive lectures with active learning using a randomized experimental…

PNAS

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.vox.com/recode/22673353/unemployment-job-search-linkedin-indeed-algorithm

America’s broken hiring system, explained. Patrick Healy says he did everything right in his job search. After being laid off as a designer early on in the pandemic, Healy, 36, tried his hand at a couple of entrepreneurial ventures before looking for a new full-time position at the start of 2021.

Why everybody’s hiring but nobody’s getting hired

Everyone is hiring. So why is finding a job still impossible?

Vox

Starred in Pocket:
https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2021/09/california-community-colleges-financial-aid-scam/

Bots are filling up community college classes in a likely attempt by scammers to fraudulently access COVID-19 relief grants and other financial aid.

That student in your community college class could be a bot

Bots are filling up classes in a likely attempt to defraud colleges of Covid-relief grants and other aid money.

CalMatters

Starred in Pocket:
https://review.firstround.com/a-ux-research-crash-course-for-founders-customer-discovery-tips-from-zoom-zapier-and-dropbox

Zoom’s Jane Davis answers all of your tricky customer development questions, creating a highly tactical guide for founders flying solo on UX research as they explore startup ideas, validate concepts, iterate on prototypes, and troubleshoot common product problems.

A UX Research Crash Course for Founders — Customer Discovery Tips from Zoom, Zapier & Dropbox

Zoom’s Jane Davis answers all of your tricky customer development questions, creating a highly tactical guide for founders flying solo on UX research as they explore startup ideas, validate concepts, iterate on prototypes, and troubleshoot common product problems.

review.firstround.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://edsource.org/2021/how-daisy-gonzales-went-from-foster-care-to-the-top-of-the-nations-largest-system-of-higher-education/658731

Just who is Daisy Gonzales, California’s new acting community colleges chancellor? Her journey, which she describes as an “incredible story,” may resonate with many of the system’s 2 million students.  “I became aware that I was in foster care at the age of 4” she said.

How Daisy Gonzales went from foster care to the top of the nation’s largest system of higher education

California's new acting chancellor is optimistic for the future of the community colleges despite the coronavirus pandemic and enrollment losses.

EdSource

Starred in Pocket:
https://arbesman.net/overedge/?utm_source=hyperlink&utm_medium=email

Research organizations and institutions often are shoehorned into a set of well-established categories: universities, public companies, tech startups, and certain types of non-profits, such as think tanks.

The Overedge Catalog: The Future of Research Organizations

arbesman.net

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/07/22/minerva-higher-education-outsider-now-accredited-university

Ben Nelson is a charter member of the higher education disruption crowd.

Minerva, a higher education outsider, now an accredited university

The unabashed “Ivy League alternative,” birthed from an investor-backed start-up, gains a very traditional stamp of approval.

www.insidehighered.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://hbr.org/2019/10/what-the-lean-startup-method-gets-right-and-wrong

When someone finds out that I am an entrepreneurship professor, they tend to either ask me to listen to their startup pitch, or else they look at me quizzically and say: “But I thought entrepreneurship was all about improvisation.

What the Lean Startup Method Gets Right and Wrong

It puts a premium on customer experience, but undervalues strategic thinking.

Harvard Business Review

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-07-09-is-it-ethical-to-run-learning-experiments-on-students-without-their-knowledge

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample.

Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge? - EdSurge News

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their ...

EdSurge

Starred in Pocket:
https://boffosocko.com/2021/07/03/differentiating-online-variations-of-the-commonplace-book-digital-gardens-wikis-zettlekasten-waste-books-florilegia-and-second-brains/

Over the past three or so years there has been a fluorescence of digital note taking tools and platforms. Open source projects like Org Mode, Logseq, Foam, Jupyter, Trilium, Databyss, Athens, Dendron, Anagora, and Hypothes.is.

Differentiating online variations of the Commonplace Book: Digital Gardens, Wikis, Zettlekasten, Waste Books, Florilegia, and Second Brains

Online forms of note taking tools and the future of note taking.

BoffoSocko.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://philonedtech.com/stealth-edits-and-clarity-on-funding-of-new-harvard-and-mit-nonprofit/

A lot of the online discussion about the 2U acquisition of edX over the past few days has centered on the new nonprofit that will be created and governed by Harvard and MIT out of the proceeds of the sale.

Stealth Edits and Clarity on Funding of New Harvard and MIT Nonprofit - PhilOnEdTech

Not all, or even most, of $800m will go into new nonprofit's operations

PhilOnEdTech

Starred in Pocket:
https://buttondown.email/geoffreylitt/archive/function-follows-form/

So here’s a question I’ve been thinking about lately: What defines a piece of software? Like, if someone asked you “What is PowerPoint?” What would you say to them?

Function Follows Form? • Buttondown

It’s been a while since the inaugural installment of this newsletter! Extrapolating from all the available data points, it appears these will be sent out...

buttondown.email

Starred in Pocket:
https://twitter.com/julianweisser/status/1120170825536032769

How do you decide what to work on without reaching consensus for a shared vision of a hard-to-predict future? @NASA strategy: put all of the possible distant visions on the board. Next, hone in on intermediate steps that are common amongst all of them to break through deadlock.

Twitter

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.defmacro.org/2013/09/26/products.html

If you believe that sales fix everything, it follows that most startups fail because they don’t ship a great product in a growing market before they run out of money. Assuming you’ve picked an explosive market, how do you go about building a great product?1

How to build great products

If you believe that sales fix everything, it follows that most startups fail because they don’t ship a great product in a growing market before they run out of money. Assuming you’ve picked an explosive market, how do you go about building a great product?1

defmacro

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-03-15-the-document-culture-of-amazon/

In my time at Amazon, I’ve observed the way we use documents is incredibly unique. A lot has been written about the six-pager and PR/FAQ so I’m not going focus on document formats, but I wanted to share how our process benefits from document-based meetings.

The Document Culture of Amazon

A look at Amazon's culture of writing and reading

Justin Garrison's personal site

Starred in Pocket:
https://buttondown.email/hyperlink/archive/hyperlink-year-one/

Happy birthday to Hyperlink! The three of us officially joined forces in June 2020, so we’re celebrating Hyperlink’s first year — what we intend to be the first of many.

Hyperlink, year one • Buttondown

Happy birthday to Hyperlink! The three of us officially joined forces in June 2020, so we’re celebrating Hyperlink’s first year — what we intend to be the...

buttondown.email

Starred in Pocket:
https://future.a16z.com/cohort-based-courses/

We’re in a post-content age. It used to be that original educational content was scarce: a decade ago, such content was a major selling point for universities and accelerators.  Today, however, educational content is cheap and abundant on YouTube, in newsletters, on blogs, and on social media.

In Online Ed, Content Is No Longer King—Cohorts Are - Future

Consumers pay for what’s scarce. And within the crowded, cheap, content-rich world of online education, what's scarce is community.

Future

Starred in Pocket:
https://eliterate.us/good-vs-great-product-teams/

Allowing teams to do their work is the hard part. Michael and I do a fair bit of work on topics like product-market fit and validating clients’ product and market strategies. We recently completed work with a company that I would characterize as a good exemplar of a “great” product team.

Good vs. Great Product Teams

Allowing teams to do their work is the hard part. Michael and I do a fair bit of work on topics like product-market fit and validating clients’ product and market strategies. We recently completed work with a company that I would characterize as a good exemplar of a “great” product team. In fact, during one…

e-Literate

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.burning-glass.com/burning-glass-technologies-and-emsi-announce-merger-to-provide-deeper-labor-market-insights-and-advance-workforce-development/

BOSTON – June 14, 2021 – Burning Glass Technologies (“Burning Glass”) today announced it is merging with Emsi to create a leading labor market analytics firm.

Burning Glass Technologies and Emsi Announce Merger to Provide Deeper Labor Market Insights and Advance Workforce Development

Burning Glass Technologies today announced it is merging with Emsi to create a leading labor market analytics firm.

Burning Glass Technologies

Starred in Pocket:
https://eliterate.us/barriers-to-coherent-digital-learning-experiences-a-full-stack-view/

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the problem of fragmented digital learning experiences.

Barriers to Coherent Digital Learning Experiences: A Full-Stack View

The pandemic forced us to face how fragmented digital learning experiences often are. Why is it still so hard to do better?

e-Literate

Starred in Pocket:
https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

Back in April of 2020 I put up a long twitter thread on the emerging trend of Digital Gardening. It gathered a little buzz, and made clear we’re in a moment where there is something culturally compelling about this concept. We have an epic collection going, check these out…

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

Maggie is a designer, illustrator, and anthropologist. This is her digital garden for growing visual explanations about design, culture, and programming

maggieappleton.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/05/27/community-colleges-launch-consortium-share-online-classes

Hundreds of community colleges could one day share online courses after the launch of a new network called the League for Innovation Online Course Sharing Consortium.

Community colleges launch consortium to share online classes

A national online course-sharing consortium for community colleges aims to expand access to online learning. It’s also an attempt to relieve budgetary and enrollment pressures after a particularly challenging year.

www.insidehighered.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://octo.github.com/projects/flat-data

Flat Data eschews the complexity of many tools in the data/ETL space in favor of something simple and flexible enough for many workloads, but which requires no user-maintained infrastructure.

GitHub Next | Flat Data

GitHub Next Project: Flat explores how to make it easy to work with data in git and GitHub. It builds on the “[git scraping” approach pioneered by Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/) to offer a simple pattern for bringing working datasets into your repositories and versioning them, because developing against local datasets is faster and easier than working…

GitHub Next

Starred in Pocket:
https://edsource.org/2021/former-gov-jerry-brown-defends-calbright-embattled-online-college/655472

When former California Gov. Jerry Brown envisioned Calbright College barely five years ago, he saw California leading the country in virtual education by building an online-only community college that would target working adults seeking to improve their skills and move into better-paying jobs.

Former Gov. Jerry Brown defends Calbright College

Former California Gov. Jerry Brown defends the public online community college he envisioned would take on the for-profit sector.

EdSource

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/teaching/2021-05-27

Still, Mazur was just as surprised as anyone when the pandemic hit and he had to scramble to move his course online for the remainder of the spring-2020 semester.

Teaching: Why an Active-Learning Evangelist Is Sold on Online Teaching

Eric Mazur, a high-profile proponent of active learning, wonders if it’s even ethical to move his class back in person.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Starred in Pocket:
https://hyperlink.academy/library/towards-hyperspace

How do we learn with others on the internet? And where? How can we share space for learning; build and inhabit it together?

Towards Hyperspace

Building social environments for flexible learning — our vision for Hyperspace.

hyperlink.academy

Starred in Pocket:
https://hyperlink.academy/library/the-art-of-gathering

We’ve been thinking a lot about the social contexts of learning, and how people come together to explore something in a directed way.

The Art of Gathering

Exploring how we design gatherings, and intentionally shape social contexts for meaningful learning.

hyperlink.academy

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.fast.ai/2020/01/07/data-questionnaire/

This post is licensed under: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Data project checklist · fast.ai

www.fast.ai

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me

The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP. 7 minute ReadMore people than ever are living long, healthy lives. According to the U.S.

I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me

The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP.

Fast Company

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/344621/why-ibm-chooses-skills-degrees.aspx

You don’t need a college degree to have a very good job at IBM. In fact, 50% of its U.S. jobs are open to anyone with the right skills or a willingness to learn them.

Why IBM Chooses Skills Over Degrees

Learn how the need for constant reskilling and upskilling has shaped IBM's approach to hiring and apprenticeship.

Gallup.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.makerpad.co/blog/ultimate-no-code-cheat-sheet

Introduction What is “no-code”? You may or may not have come across the term, “no-code” before, so we’ll start with the basics. In short; No-code is a way of both building on the internet and automating processes, without writing lines of code.

The Ultimate No-Code Cheat Sheet | Makerpad

A definitive guide to no-code — everything you need to know about the basics of no-code in one place. Learn about product building vs. automation, real life no-code use cases, common terminology, popular no-code tools, and where to turn if you're looking to expand your no-code knowledge beyond just the basics.

www.makerpad.co

Starred in Pocket:
https://butter.us

Butter cookies 🍪 To give you a buttery smooth experience, we use cookies. By continuing to use the site you agree to our use of cookies.

Butter | Workshops as smooth as butter

Butter is a video conferencing tool that empowers facilitators to run interactive, buttery smooth online workshops!

butter.us

Starred in Pocket:
https://calendso.com

Self-hosted or hosted by us. White-label by design. API-driven and ready to be deployed on your own domain. You are in control of your events and data. Let’s face it: Calendly and other scheduling tools are awesome. It made our lives massively easier.

Cal.com | Open Scheduling Infrastructure

Open Source Scheduling: Send a link and meet or build an entire marketplace for humans to connect.

calendso.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://transcend.substack.com/p/coursera-stacks

Hey! Alberto here. Welcome to the Transcend Newsletter. The Transcend Newsletter explores the intersection of the future of education and the future work, and the founders building it around the world.

Coursera Stacks All The Way 📚 Transcend Newsletter #40

The new Coursera and what it means for the future of education.

transcend.substack.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://hyperlink.academy/library/catalog-of-course-structures#elements-of-course-design

What shapes can a course take? When you’re full of ideas to explore, it’s not always clear how to put things together into a structured, sequenced learning experience. We’ve compiled this catalog as a non-exhaustive collection of structures you might consider in shaping your course or club.

Catalog of Course Structures

Possibilities for structure, from projects to discussions, theory to application, and structural dynamics that affect the shape of a course.

hyperlink.academy

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/04/15/california-community-college-fall-enrollment-plunges

The California Community College system had a 12 percent enrollment decline from fall 2019 to fall 2020, a staggering figure for the largest college system in the country and a likely harbinger of the demographic and fiscal challenges that lie ahead for the sector nationally.

California community college fall enrollment plunges

Enrollment at California Community Colleges fell even more last fall than an already shocking national average. Campus leaders hope to stem further declines as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

www.insidehighered.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://blog.starburstdata.com/data-mesh-the-answer-to-the-data-warehouse-hypocrisy

Note: I start this piece with some technical background that has nothing to do with the data mesh, and is only relevant to data warehousing insofar as it explains how the parallel database systems that often underlie data warehousing solutions usually work.

Data Mesh: The Answer to the Data Warehouse Hypocrisy

There is one rule, pretty much the only rule, that determines success in scaling data systems: avoid coordination whenever possible.

blog.starburstdata.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/learning-innovation/9-reasons-why-campus-online-learning-teams-should-be-permanently-remote

In conversations with colleagues across higher ed who are leading campus online learning teams, I commonly hear about the following challenges: Post-COVID, online learning is snowballing – and we need to build up our internal institutional capacities if we are going to meet this demand.

9 Reasons Why Campus Online Learning Teams Should Be Permanently Remote | Learning Innovation

Planning for the post-pandemic university.

www.insidehighered.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/business/job-training-work.html

Bill Barber saw an ad on Facebook last year for American Diesel Training Centers, a school in Ohio that prepares people for careers as diesel mechanics. It came with an unusual pitch: He would pay for the schooling only if it landed him a job, thanks to a nonprofit called Social Finance.

Job Training That’s Free Until You’re Hired Is a Blueprint for Biden

Social Finance, a nonprofit, is spreading a model in which training programs get paid if students get hired, not just if they enroll.

www.nytimes.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://blog.jonudell.net/2008/03/04/ward-cunninghams-visible-workings/

In Portland last week I visited with Ward Cunningham, whose pragmatic and humane approach to the art of software informs everything he touches: the Wiki, object-oriented, agile, and test-driven programming, the framework for integrated test. (InfoWorld stuff about Ward here, here, and here.

Ward Cunningham’s implementation of Brian Marick’s “Visible Workings”

In Portland last week I visited with Ward Cunningham, whose pragmatic and humane approach to the art of software informs everything he touches: the Wiki, object-oriented, agile, and test-driven pro…

Jon Udell

Starred in Pocket:
https://antonz.org/sqlite-is-not-a-toy-database/

Whether you are a developer, data analyst, QA engineer, DevOps person, or product manager – SQLite is a perfect tool for you. Here is why. The console is a killer SQLite feature for data analysis: more powerful than Excel and more simple than pandas.

SQLite is not a toy database

Here is why SQLite is a perfect tool for you - whether you are a developer, data analyst, or geek.

Anton Zhiyanov

Starred in Pocket:
https://learninginnovation.duke.edu/blog/2021/04/academic-innovation-at-the-foot-of-the-cathedral/

The pandemic year clouds my memories of “before times” on campus but I still clearly recall the awe and inspiration I felt on arriving at Duke on February 8, 2017.

Academic Innovation at the Foot of the Cathedral - Duke Learning Innovation

Matthew Rascoff, our outgoing Associate Vice Provost for Digital Education and Innovation, reflects on four years at Learning Innovation and Duke. The pandemic year clouds my memories of “before times” ...

Duke Learning Innovation

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/learning-innovation/reading-ihe%E2%80%99s-2021-survey-presidents-online-learning-eyes

Have you downloaded and read through Inside Higher Ed’s 2021 Survey of College and University Presidents yet? Totally worth your time.

Reading Inside Higher Ed’s 2021 Survey of Presidents With Online Learning Eyes | Learning Innovation

Digital learning on the brain.

www.insidehighered.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://transcend.substack.com/p/challenger-universities-transcend

Hello! Alberto here. Welcome to the Transcend Newsletter. The Transcend Newsletter explores the intersection of the future of education and the future work, and the founders building it around the world.

Challenger Universities 🎓 Transcend Newsletter #39

New university models to include 200 million new students this decade.

transcend.substack.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://orbit.love/blog/slack-vs-discord-vs-discourse/

“What platform should I use for my startup’s community? Should I move from Slack to Discourse? Wait…there’s a Discourse and a Discord?” Now is a great time to build a community online, and there’s no shortage of really great tools to help.

Slack vs Discord vs Discourse: The best tool for your community - Orbit

An in-depth comparison of 3 top community platforms across dozens of factors.

orbit.love

Starred in Pocket:
https://edstrategy.org/resource/accelerating-recovery-through-credentials-rapid-response-toolkit/

In order to equitably recover from the pandemic and economic crisis, decision makers must plan for and execute on strategic actions to quickly support displaced workers, as learners, in obtaining the skills needed to transition into careers of the new economy.

Accelerating Recovery through Credentials: Rapid Response Toolkit - Education Strategy Group

The massive disruptions caused by COVID-19 have left millions out of work and disproportionately impacted women, people of color, and those with lower levels of education. As people displaced from their jobs by the pandemic look to get back to work, many will return to higher education to gain new skills and credentials. But are...

Education Strategy Group