Emerging technologies and human nature

The WritersUA annual conference is quickly approaching. One of its tracks is Emerging technologies, and this year six of its ten sessions have a web 2.0 theme. (You’ll be seeing me in most of these sessions.)
In one year, web 2.0 has moved to mainstream. I heard my first web 2.0 & technical communication presentations in the [...]

Advance personalised learning

The National Academy of Engineering has listed the grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century. One item on the list is advance personalised learning.
The current situation is described this way:
“teaching has traditionally followed a one-size-fits-all approach to learning, with a single set of instructions provided identically to everybody in a given class, regardless of [...]