EduGeek Journal

The Chronicle boldly proclaimed today that “Online Learning May Slightly Hurt Student Performance.” How do they know this? A “study found that students who watched lectures online instead of attending in-person classes performed slightly worse in the course over all.” That sound you hear is the collective world of EduGeeks around the world firmly planting [...]

Although there have been various tools out there to edit video and music online, this month we see two more added to the mix. The difference this time is that it is two big players in the tech world that are giving us these tools – two companies that you might already be using. First [...]

We all know that the outlook for Higher Ed is pretty grim.  Students don’t see the value in a college degree any more. They all seem to think it is a waste of time. There is no money for people to be in college. Students have stopped going to school even because they all see [...]

Much has been said recently about how the Web is making us more stupid. I blame Bing really – they said that humans are basically so dumb that we go on search overload if we can’t figure out a simple page of links.  I don’t feel “stupider” than I did before the Internet :)  Maybe [...]

I really don’t understand why Apple seems to hate Flash so much. Maybe Jobs is just tired of picking on Microsoft for now and decided to get a different target?  “Hello, I’m HTML5.” “And I’m Adobe Flash.”  Just doesn’t have the same comedy potential… If you are in education, you could care less how your [...]