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An introvert in a digital world: How technology is empowering the quieter half
Many learners, creatives, entrepreneurs, and thinkers are introverts by nature, and the digital age is finally giving them a chance to shine.
Accessibility in edtech: Your questions answered by industry leaders
Your accessibility questions answered by industry experts. As education technologists, it’s our responsibility to provide students with the services they need to fulfill their potential.…
Change anxiety: Is your brain holding you back?
Facing something new presents us with a choice between taking shelter and taking charge. Recently, Slate magazine ran a piece in which a married couple…
How designing for accessibility can improve product usability
Accessibility and usability ultimately share the same goal – to make products or services easy to use for everyone. The Internet can be a powerful…
What is a content authoring tool?
What are the capabilities of today’s content authoring tools? As online education and e-learning continue to grow and advance, you may have noticed that you’re…
Accessibility in education helps create better opportunities for learners
If learning materials are not accessible to learners, then learners’ abilities won’t be accessible to educators. Education should be challenging for all learners. If it…
The gathering storm: Student data security in the Digital Age
How can student data security be guaranteed when faced with a threat that can neither be detected nor predicted? In the not-too-distant past, banks represented…
How cowboys made me rethink literate practices in the Digital Age
Cognitive development in young learners is about quality communication as well as quality content. I’ve been involved in my son Phoenix’s literacy development since he…
Are competencies more important than credentials in the modern Workplace?
As college enrollments decline, have skills become more valuable to employers than credentials? “From almost any individual’s perspective,” wrote David Leonhardt for the New York Times in…
How cost factors into the Build vs Buy debate
The classic build vs buy dilemma; whether to build your application from scratch in-house or whether to license the technology from a specialist vendor has…