School Design 101: The Class Schedule is Your Enemy Alex Hernandez School Design 101: The Class Schedule is Your Enemy Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. —Alice in Wonderland— I am fortunate to collaborate with a number of amazing educators […] May 31, 2012 Alex Hernandez
Why Steve Jobs would have loved digital learning Michael B. Horn Why Steve Jobs would have loved digital learning In the wake of Steve Jobs’ passing, many wrote about the statements he made throughout his adult life about how to improve the U.S. education […] May 31, 2012 Michael B. Horn
How machine-based tutoring could disrupt human tutors Michael B. Horn How machine-based tutoring could disrupt human tutors Back in January, my friend Bror Saxberg, chief learning officer of Kaplan, published an eye-popping blog about a meta-analysis that Kurt VanLehn published recently about […] Apr 5, 2012 Michael B. Horn
6 dreams for state education systems, part II Heather Staker 6 dreams for state education systems, part II Yesterday in this blog I said that there’s an organization that is already using a sophisticated data system to deliver a fully competency-based education model […] Apr 3, 2012 Heather Staker
How to build 50,000 new colleges Michael B. Horn How to build 50,000 new colleges An article on Yahoo! News caught my eye a little while back because of what it says about the potential—and perhaps likelihood—of India leapfrogging the […] Feb 22, 2012 Michael B. Horn
Is blended homeschooling the way forward? Tim_Brady Is blended homeschooling the way forward? Most new parents entertain, at least for a moment, the idea of homeschooling their children. The idea of having maximum control over what your child […] Feb 16, 2012 Tim_Brady
Is mandating online learning good policy? Michael B. Horn Is mandating online learning good policy? An increasing number of advocates for online learning have come out in favor of mandating that states require students take at least one college- or […] Dec 7, 2011 Michael B. Horn
Getting Smart envisions a smarter system of schooling Michael B. Horn Getting Smart envisions a smarter system of schooling Tom Vander Ark has seen many sides of the U.S. education system—as a district superintendent, the executive director of education for the Gates Foundation, an […] Nov 29, 2011 Michael B. Horn
Leave the partisan bickering aside in the online-learning debate Meg Evans Leave the partisan bickering aside in the online-learning debate In “Jeb Bush’s Cyber Attack on Public Schools,” published in the November issue of Mother Jones, Stephanie Mencimer launches a broad attack on online learning. Among […] Nov 16, 2011 Meg Evans
When Blended Learning Puts Students in Charge Alex Hernandez When Blended Learning Puts Students in Charge I am not going to sit on my #%$ as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I’m going […] Nov 8, 2011 Alex Hernandez
What can we learn about learning? Michael B. Horn What can we learn about learning? Bror Saxberg, the chief learning officer of Kaplan, Inc., is a man for whom I have great respect. Whenever I have a question about the […] Nov 8, 2011 Michael B. Horn
Disruptive innovation in integrated care delivery systems Christensen Institute Disruptive innovation in integrated care delivery systems By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan Why have select integrated health systems outpaced their peers across nearly all quality and cost measures? The Christensen Institute has set out to answer this question by identifying the crit... Oct 1, 2011 Christensen Institute