Brandon Muramatsu

muraPOI: November 16, 2011

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  • The Flipped Classroom: Bill Tucker writes about the “flipped classroom”. One of my most striking memories from my work in the engineering coalitions program was a now-retired professor of civil engineering. He spent over 5 years creating courseware to support his statics course. As he built a core of instructional materials, he was able to “flip” his classroom from one of information dissemination to interaction and deeper learning. This was in the late-1990s. Fast-forward to today, this notion is getting more attention now.

    (EducationNext by way of Esther Wojcicki on Google+, October 2011)

  • Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed: Avichal Garg’s post on why education startups fail. Here’s the summary:

    • Most entrepreneurs in education build the wrong type of business, because entrepreneurs think of education as a quality problem. The average person thinks of it as a cost problem.
    • Building in education does not follow an Internet company’s growth curve. Do it because you want to fix problems in education for the next 20 years.
    • There are opportunities in education in servicing the poor in the US and building a company in Asia — not in selling to the middle class in the US.
    • The underlying culture will change and expose interesting opportunities in the long term, but probably not for another 5 years.

    (by way of Esther Wojcicki on Google+ I think)

  • Cramming Computers: It’s Still the Same Old Story: Michael Horn writes about the as yet unrealized value of technology in education.

    “Technology has the potential to transform the education system—not by using technology for technology’s sake through PowerPoint or multimedia at the expense of math and reading or something like that—but instead as a vehicle to individualize learning for students working to master such things as math and reading, thereby creating a student-centric system as opposed to today’s lockstep and monolithic one.”

    (EducationNext by way of Esther Wojcicki on Google+, September 9, 2011)

  • 22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website’s Usability: Some interesting tools here!

    (StartupDigest Design, October 5, 2011)

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