I finished two books over the weekend with polarized views on customer involvement in product design.
First, Groundswell (p.194):
We’re not suggesting that a company like Apple turn its development over to its customers - that would be a tragic waste of talent. No, the companies that win by embracing their customers incorporate those suggestions into their [...]
An Open Source conversation on the media pioneer, Tony Schwartz, between Christopher Lydon and documentarian David Hoffman.
Listen:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Watson_…
In a similar spirit as Marshall McLuhan, the conversation uncovers Tony Schwartz’s opinions on the power of radio - many of which can be equally applied to the application of audio podcasts. There are a lot of tips here [...]
All of the MP3 lessons on our Praxis LanguagePod’s are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. We originally did this to make it as easy as possible for students and teachers to use the product; instead of having to clear copyrights before use, teachers only need to attribute the lesson to us and [...]
Technology has the ability to radically disrupt any industry’s value chain - including education. Harold Jarche (a fellow Canadian) on his Learning and Work on the Web blog comments:
.. the dominant education business model may suffer the same fate as the manufacturing industry - commoditization.
I would take a slightly different view and argue a [...]
I have been having a conversation with Graham Attwell - the driving force behind the concept of the personal learning environment (PLE) - on how mobile devices will impact the PLE. Channel agnosticism is a big part of our ‘Learning on Your Terms’ philosophy, or in other words the student should always have the [...]
Recently, I have been finding myself defending why podcasts work better as lesson objects when compared to other types of e-learning, such as webcasts. So, a quick review:
What is a podcast?
A podcast is simply an audio or video file that is automatically delivered to you via an RSS subscription. You can think of it as [...]
Me?
Hank Horkoff. Co-founder & CEO of Praxis Language Ltd. Contact me at hank.horkoff at gmail dot com.
Praxis Language?
At Praxis Language we believe that we are at the beginning of a decades-long period of transition in education where podcasting, the social web & mobile devices will increasingly give more power to the training consumer causing a shift from a traditional, classroom-centric model to a more flexible, learner-centric, continuous learning model.