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Early last August, I attended a workshop on Learning Environment Modeling (LEM) and was inspired...

I have enjoyed teaching and have celebrated good teachers as long as I can remember. Not...

Still fresh off a great learning experience at last week’s digitalNow conference for...

  The Prime Minister for a certain country had just returned home from the most important event...

  This is the third article in a three-part series on shifting product models in Higher...

The Queen of a certain kingdom, needing a new evening gown by the end of the month, decided to...

When I write a weekly update like this, I always begin by looking for a theme in the articles...

The beautiful meal A wise woman was making her way through a distant land and she came upon a...

There are times when I think all the tactical talk about Open and Closed learning environments...

(This is the second article in a three-part series on shifting product models in...

What do publishers – whose stock and trade has always been content – do when content is no...

Much of our current work with Oklahoma universities and colleges on behalf of the Oklahoma State...

Over the past week, there have been a string of intersecting articles on OER and digital content...

We’re starting our #Open TeachingOU / #OpenOK Twitter chat series for the semester this Friday...

It takes a village, or better yet, a community. Chris Brewster, the Superintendent at Santa Fe...

(Note: Within the context of this post, affordable content is defined as “free, at-no-additional...

Recently, I’ve started sharing concrete examples of how we at NextThought are using a...

For almost six months, NextThought has been working with the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher...

(In the initial version of this post back in February, we introduced our vision with the title,...

A recent New York Times article talked about the new streaming entertainment channels created by...

Oklahoma State University is gearing up to offer, for the second time, its Farm to Fork course –...

Last Friday I was flying back from the Online Learning Consortium in Orlando and – hooray! – my...

My recent work on student engagement – including our NextThought Power of Connections course...

[The following is the script from my keynote address delivered at the Big XII Teaching and...

Dan Myer wrote a nice post this week on modeling with mathematics. In his post, he designed a...

Currently, there are a number of effective models circulating that show how easy it is to offer...

Connected learning is about placing learners at the center of their learning networks and...

Join us for our #NTPoC Twitter chat this Thursday at 10:00 AM CDT. We'll discuss re-imagining...

My wife recently went to the law school bookstore to purchase a book she'd studied while in law...

The participants in our Power of Connections learning experience are exploring student...

I wrote a post yesterday on our Power of Connections course blog about how we're exploring...

This week marks the kickoff of our Power of Connections open course on student engagement.

  Reading about the new full-motion video (FMV) gameHer Story this week, definitely set me on a...

This is an honest question because, listening to people in education circles discuss the topic,...

  Two weeks ago I interviewed the inimitable Kerry Magruder for our upcoming interview series, ...

In the first part of my career as an educator, I was preoccupied almost exclusively with a...

Easy tips to follow to help you manage the time you spend on your online course well!

A certain father wanted to provide his son wise counsel for choosing a profession in life. With...

For anyone with a smartphone or a smart watch or smart glasses, or anyone who is attached in...

Learning. The serendipity of connection. Like the kind that happens when you head to New York to...

This video will assist you in making color choices that will make your video more visually...

In January, 2003, I was sitting in a hotel lobby in New Orleans talking to Jon Stowe (now...

Rob Reynolds, Ph.D. Chief Product Officer, NextThought

My experience at the 2015 ASU+GSV Summit last week reminded me of this great post on Dark Matter...

This video helps you with using imagery and animation to make your video great!

  Wouldn't it be great if we had a complete map that shows the future of Higher Education?...

On Friday, we'll have our next #OpenTeachingOU Twitter Chat. The topic for this session will be...

As a company focused on Connected Learning solutions, it's not surprising that the most common...

  A certain young woman lived at the foot of the Pyrenees in a small village in Southern France....

In Part 1 of this series, I identified what I believe to be the primary obstacle to reducing or...

Last Friday, I participated in a panel on "Creativity and the University" as part of an event...

  Evidently content is still king when it comes to education. But what does or should it cost? ...

There was a certain man who owned a large farm and, in one section of that farm, ran a sizable...

Affordable content is a choice. It's a choice that many students have made in recent years as...

This power of learning connections was re-emphasized for me this weekend when I read Phil Hill's...

In this episode we share a number of helpful tips and tricks to help make your educational...

A certain woman decided one day that she would begin competing in triathlons. She had been a...

Last week's inaugural OpenTeachingOU conversation was a big success, and we're looking forward...

Nick Shackleton-Jones references this image to talk about the future of learning. In it, we...

Open is a celebration of choice, and a triumph of community. It's about the freedom to create,...

This video is designed to provide useful tips to help struggling students become successful in...

When I was a child, I loved it when my mother sang to me, and one of my favorite songs was, " I...

We live in a world of retouching. We boost and smooth photos. We enhance audio with sonic zones....

This video will help you create and maintain meaningful relationships with your online students,...

  I like new, shiny objects as much as anyone, and the current object of my eye is the ...

The Starship Intrepid has just left dock for open space. The captain stands on the bridge. An...

Some days, "open" means that someone left the cover off the rabbit hole and you go tumbling down...

One of the key learning and design principles of connected pedagogy is "production" — learners...

We dream. We design. We code. We market. We innovate. We project. We tweak. We hire. We evolve....

Being available and providing meaningful feedback are two key elements in creating a successful...

It's a beautiful day. On the corner sits a candy shop. Outside the shop is a neatly-painted...

A week ago, I got into one of those spontaneous Twitter discussions with two of my good friends...

Great connections happen when people are willing to share honestly and truthfully, when they...

This video presents useful strategies for developing positive relationships with students in an...

  A certain woman received a letter saying that she had inherited a house from a distant...

There are strong indications that the various components of open education will continue to gain...

  "When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object." ― Milan Kundera, The...

This episode will provide you with strategies to develop positive relationships with your...

Watching companies pivot or change their business models can be fascinating.

Imagine a man driving a rented moving van down a major highway that leads toward the downtown...

  Back in 2012, I released a book with the auspicious title, The Future of Learning Content ( ...

It's that time again. Everyone is squeezing in their predictions about the three, or five, or...

It seems that Chegg has decided to ditch the textbook rental business in favor of its...

In this first episode, trainers Meleah Meadows and Chris Kalinski provide a brief overview of ...

Certain aspects of the human journey are universal enough that we generally place them in the...

Welcome to the NextThought blog. My name is Rob Reynolds and I want to welcome you to our...