Category: 2013
I wanted to see if we could roughly log how long users are spending waiting for learner data uploads. The more accurate way to do this is on the client side. However I wanted to try it on the server side so it could be applied in many cases without needing instrumented clients that send […]
One of the most effective pedagogies in science education is to challenge students to design and construct something that performs a function, solves a problem, or proves a hypothesis. Learning by design is a very compelling way of engaging students to…
For nearly 18 years, our logo has been a beautiful and complex sunflower, created by Senior Web Developer Noah Paessel. (He was Noah Fields back in 1994 when he worked at the Concord Consortium during his first stint with us, but that’s another blog post!) With the former logo, our founder, Bob Tinker, wanted to […]
It was a great year for the Concord Consortium! We won a Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE) Innovation Award! Next-Generation Molecular Workbench interactives starred in the MIT MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) “Introduction to Solid State Chemistry” through a new collaboration with edX. Chad Dorsey described our vision of deeply digital education at […]
Link to NSTA news NSTA Reports is the National Science Teachers Association’s newspaper published nine times a year as a free member service. In January, our Engineering Energy Efficiency Project was one of the three projects featured in a report about “meaningfully integrating science and engineering.” The Engineering Energy Efficiency Project is funded by the […]