What is Spiral? A suite of web apps that can be used on any internet-connected device. Simple tools that mirror classroom practice and can be used across all devices.
Small data is proposed as an alternative to 'big data'. Advantages of small data are among others: (1) allows to build more interconnected applications, (2) allows portable databases and (3) allows to evolve data in more fluent iterations.
Rikke Toft Nørgård, Assistant Professor at the Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media at Aarhus University in Denmark, practices something she calls "gelatinous pedagogy" in which she tries not to enforce a detailed curriculum from a fixed syllabus and rubric for all students but acts, in her words, "more like a jellyfish that's adjusting to the students, rather than making the students adjust to my teaching."