Posts by Joel Gendler
Protected: New Website Design for CEE (Council for Economic Education)
So You Want to Make an e-Book
Here are some insights into different formats available for creating e-books—and some issues to consider. When picking an e-book format, you’ll be making trade-offs among these factors: device compatibility (What devices/platforms can customers read it on?) sales compatibility (Where can you sell it?) features (What does it look like? What can it do?) ease/cost of…
Read MoreRead MoreGetting Ready for the Internet of Things (IoT)
What Is the IoT? Watch this video for a quick overview. How Will the IoT Affect the Education Industry? For several years, publishers have been developing “smart” curricula that can adapt to students. Cell phones were once banned in schools, but now they are often seen as a valuable asset. As technology changes, so do our expectations.
Read MoreRead MoreWhat is metacog?
Watch this video for some behind-the-scenes thinking about metacog, our ground-breaking data analytics work. What is metacog? metacog is a series of APIs (application programming interfaces), or more simply put, software tools that give information to other software applications. What does metacog do? metacog is the engine in your car. It’s the paint on your paintbrush. It’s…
Read MoreRead MoreWhat’s Next? Part 4: NextGen Digital Experiences
EdTech Tip: Plagiarism
In our last EdTech Tip we discussed how we approach fact checking in the digital age. One of the keys to fact checking is to put the onus on the writer: document your sources. This saves the fact checker time, and it has an added benefit—it makes it easier to detect plagiarism. Plagiarism is not necessarily something done by evil…
Read MoreRead MoreEdTech Tip: Fact Checking
When educational content goes digital, there is a tendency to pick up and adapt processes that were used for print. Often that works well, but shifts in thinking are usually needed. When it comes to fact checking print products, for example, we assumed that if a fact was correct when published, it would not be considered an egregious…
Read MoreRead MoreWhat’s Next? Part 3: Assessment
This is the third in our series of posts about the changing landscape in education. In the video below, Victory’s staff discuss what’s next in assessment. We’ve added a few more thoughts below. Feel free to use the comments to join in the conversation. A Variation on “The Chicken or the Egg?” Which comes first, change…
Read MoreRead Moremetacog Partners with PhET Interactive Simulations
A lot of education companies are putting data analytics to work, because the first step in improving student outcomes is to see where students are. All Data Analytics Were Not Created Equal But you can only get so much from information collected outside the activities. That kind of data is like taking student attendance —…
Read MoreRead MoreTech Tip: Video Subtitles in Multiple Languages
Perhaps your educational products are now being published in other countries. If your products use video, that poses a problem: How can I efficiently create videos that can work in multiple languages? Watch this video for quick tip we think you will find useful when subtitles are an option.
Read MoreRead More