In addition to the discussion that happens within SpacedEd courses, we have used this blog, Twitter and Facebook to connect with our members. Recently we added a new tool with the creation of the official SpacedEd discussion group on LinkedIn. We will cross-post from our blog and Twitter feeds to the LinkedIn group and hope [...]
Ed. Magazine, the magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is currently featuring an article on SpacedEd entitled “Repetition, Repetition, Repetition“. It covers background on how SpacedEd came to be and includes this quote on the content-neutral approach we take in allowing anyone to create a course on anything:
“For that reason, SpacedEd CEO Duncan [...]
Harvard Magazine in its most recent print issue featured an interview with B. Price Kerfoot, inventor of the “spaced education” concept that powers SpacedEd.
On more traditional forms of web-based learning the author comments:
“[Kerfoot] knew that Web-based teaching modules are a gold standard for online education, but in a study done at four medical schools, Kerfoot [...]
Although SpacedEd was originally developed at Harvard Medical School for medical student and physician education, our goal has always been to bring the technology to the widest possible audience. To that end, one of the first things we did when we created SpacedEd.com was to open up authoring to anyone on any subject.
It has been [...]
I had the pleasure of speaking with well-known e-Learning expert Jay Cross last week and sharing our vision for SpacedEd with him. He has since written not only a blog post on our discussion but also gone ahead and created a short course in SpacedEd on “Learning to Learn“.
It is very exciting for us when [...]
Our recent news on SpacedEd Enterprise has gotten a great write up from the folks over at ReadWriteWeb, which we very much appreciate.
They say, in part:
“Research from Harvard Medical School has resulted in a pretty sharp SaaS learning system. SpacedEd, as it is called, uses a simple question and answer format that adapts to the [...]
Burlington, MA. – Spaced Education, Inc. today announced the Enterprise Version of its unique software as a service (SaaS) solution. SpacedEd Enterprise provides organizations the ability to use SpacedEd’s ground-breaking method of online learning that uses a simple question and answer format to complement their training strategy. Learners may receive courses the way they want, [...]
We have been kind of quiet in the last few weeks but that is only because we have been working night and day on a lot of new features for SpacedEd.
We have continued to refine areas of the site, both large and small, and you may notice some of these changes which I will talk [...]
There are a number of sites that create short introductory snippets to what’s new and exciting out there on the web. One of the more popular is KillerStartups and today they put up a short review on us.
Please take a look and of course we would love your vote when you get there too!
Thousands of SpacedEd members have taken courses since we began our Public Beta in early July and we have been watching how people use the service and listening closely to everyone’s feedback.
As a result of this, we are about to make three important changes live on the site and we wanted to tell you a [...]
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