Category: tech

08/01/2018

In my professional area of medical education there is clear market failure. Publishers are simply unable or choose not to,…

04/12/2017

“The field of educational technology, largely ignorant of its own history, seems eternally condemned to repeat itself.” Nature review of…

27/11/2017

“The field of educational technology, largely ignorant of its own history, seems eternally condemned to repeat itself.” Nature review of…

15/11/2017

I like computers (see previous post), but despair of them in the clinical context of keeping medical records. By contrast…

14/11/2017

Today (Oct. 17) was International Spreadsheet Day, marking the day back in 1979 that VisiCalc first shipped for the Apple…

24/10/2017

This is from an article discussing the difficulties in recommending people to content they might like. The bigger picture is…

02/10/2017

Public Domain, Link I dislike LMS (learning management systems). There are lots of reasons for this, but chief is that…

26/09/2017

If you don't like how careless Equifax was with your data, don't waste your breath complaining to Equifax. Complain to…

20/09/2017

Just last week, when faced with a report that its advertising numbers promised an American audience that, in certain demographics,…

11/09/2017

It’s almost vanishingly rare that we pick a new device that we always have with us,” the historian of mobile…