Jeff Brazil is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with deep expertise in marketing, strategic communications and media production. A former writer and editor with the Los Angeles Times, both digital and print, he has in-depth experience in content strategy, content development and digital communications. At the Digital Media & Learning Hub, located within the University of California’s systemwide Humanities Research Institute, he provides strategy, direction and leadership for all major communications, content and marketing programs and activities.
Jeff Brazil
Articles
Does the information age free us to pursue learning centered on individuals and not institutions? Does each of us have a part to play in the possibility of education? Can a broader...
Category: Connected LearningYou could make the argument that of all the ills perpetuated by the industrial age approach to education the worst is conformity. Originality had no place in a factory production line. Or...
Category: Connected LearningMentoring: The Gift of Validation
This short film explores a fundamental ingredient of learning and human potential: mentoring. Its potential is arguably even more pronounced today because of our ability to connect with others who share our...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeMaking + Playing + Understanding = Learning
We commissioned filmmaker Nic Askew to make a series of short films that explores the underlying thinking of our six principles of connected learning: interests, peers, youth as producers, networks, shared purpose...
Category: Connected LearningConnected Learning: The Experience of Education Reimagined
We commissioned filmmaker Nic Askew to make a series of short films about connected learning, a new approach to learning he called "courageous" and "transformational." This film introduces the story of connected...
Category: Connected LearningThe Global One-Room Schoolhouse: John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown has been immersed in innovation and learning for the last three decades. As a visiting scholar and adviser to the provost at the University of Southern California, co-chair of...
Category: Educational PracticeP2PU: Learning for Everyone, by Everyone, about almost Anything
Meet Philipp Schmidt, co-founder and executive director of Peer to Peer University, an emerging, Web-based global learning community. At P2PU, study groups form and gather online to learn a particular topic. They...
Category: Educational PracticeTop 5 Blog Posts on Digital Media and Learning for 2010
The DML Central blog is just over a year old, and the close of 2010 marks our first full year of publishing thought leadership from our featured bloggers and highlighting best practices...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningSpin: The Digital Media & Learning Conference 2010
Hidden in the tweetstream from the Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010 are hundreds of provocative insights, comments, and observations, and we couldn't help but mine the archive for another round. The...
Category: Digital LearningDispatches: Digital Media & Learning Conference 2010
In the wake of the Digital Media and Learning Conference, we’re seeing many great conversations taking place and intriguing questions being asked. Here’s a second wave of tweets harvested from the conference...
Category: Digital Learning