by admin | Mar 24, 2017 | Different by Design
March 27-31, 2017, is Open Education Week around the world. Open Education is a movement that reflects the current need to transform the way we deliver knowledge in the 21st century. As we’ve written previously, many states and institutions are setting goals to adopt...
by admin | Mar 21, 2017 | Different by Design
Frustration over the rising price of textbooks has reached a boiling point that has taken this issue from college campuses to state legislatures all over the country. Search the hashtag #textbookbroke on Twitter and you’ll see the frustration building in real time....
by admin | Mar 13, 2017 | Different by Design
Odigia Co-founder and CEO Joshua Moe traveled to Redwood, Calif., Feb. 21-22 for the 2017 Startup Grind Global Conference. “Startup Grind Global was an amazing opportunity to meet fellow entrepreneurs and exchange ideas,” he said. Learning from a big conference...
by admin | Feb 22, 2017 | Different by Design
This article by Odigia CEO and co-founder Joshua Moe was originally published by NISOD as an Innovation Abstracts on February 16, 2017. It is not to be edited or repurposed. In the early 2000s, my job as an IT professional in higher education was to support the...
by admin | Feb 21, 2017 | Different by Design
Some things never change, like how easy it is to procrastinate when you have a big paper due, or how delicious cheap pizza is at 3 a.m. But if you look around the typical classroom, you’ll likely see tools whose usefulness has been eclipsed by modern innovations. Take...
by admin | Feb 16, 2017 | Different by Design
At a time when employers are seeking workers with increasingly sophisticated analytical and problem-solving skills, the public is losing confidence that America’s educational system is up to the task of preparing these workers. Despite reports from employers that even...
