University Supported Guide for 2022-23 School Planning

The Center for Charter Schools at Central Michigan University (CMU) teamed with The Learning Collective and Venn Education (Venn) to examine the impacts, changes and innovations schools have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

TLC Welcomes The Digital Diva

Joquetta Lynn Johnson, aka The Digital Diva, is the newest Member of The Learning Collective.  Joquetta brings many years of experience and success utilizing, and training others how to leverage, educational technologies.

College Board Hires TLC

Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,800 colleges through major programs and services in college readiness, college admission, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. The College Board has hired The Learning Collective to help develop College Board’s new online professional development model

Connectivism And Modern Literacy

In the 20th century literacy was the “ability to read and write”. The subset of skills necessary to be called literate has changed greatly and the definitions has expanded…

A Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig, is the foundational voice and an advocate of the free culture movement, Creative Commons and Open Source. The Open Video Alliance will present a live webcast of a talk by Lawrence Lessig at the end of February.

Harvard Professor: Learn 3 Minutes a Day

Some educators are turning to short online learning activities as a preferred approach to engage students. Take SpacedEd. It offers students the chance to “learn most anything in 3 minutes a day.” Originally developed by Dr B. Price Kerfoot, a Harvard Medical School professor, for medical school students, the method has been proven through 10 rigorous studies to increase knowledge by up to 50% and strengthen retention of concepts up to two years.

WhiteHouse.gov Offers First iPhone App

Last week WhiteHouse.gov announced the new White House App. This new App delivers dynamic content from WhiteHouse.gov on to your iPhone or iPod Touch. President Obama has once again raised the bar of transparency for presidents in years to come.