But something was wrong with the CAPTCHA system.  In any case, my comment on his recent post: I think we have also lost the idea that part of what education is supposed to do is impart to the next generation a common body of knowledge and skills that allows society to, quite frankly, function. And Continue reading

Brilliant essay by Simon Reynolds. And worth thinking about more broadly than music: Cobain, arguably the last rebel-rocker-as-star, had owed his rise to the centralizing power of the old media; now in his death, he was entangled with the emerging new media disorder. The old media and entertainment channels (what I think of as the Continue reading

Photo Credit: Marc Romer I think this post of David’s is right, mostly (though I think the title is a bit misleading). I think it also keys into a broader shift that is happening. OER projects are increasingly driven by very specific ends and defined needs. As David points out, when we move efficacy and Continue reading

In the past few days I’ve had my first spamonym “followers” (presumably because I am posting on G+ publicly). And more prominent people like Howard Rheingold are already fighting them in the stream. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again — if G+ is to maintain a shred of legitimacy about real names, they Continue reading

One more note on George’s post. He calls the above the “Encarta price curve of death”, and I think what he is saying is that as content became cheaper to produce consumers were less willing to pay high prices for it.  I haven’t read the article he linked to thoroughly, but my guess is this Continue reading

I think a lot of this is happening, frankly. Univ. of Central Florida, a leader in online/hybrid courses has a student body that for the most part takes a fluid blend of online, hybrid, and f2f classes. That model is being duplicated many places. The Innovative University’s fascinating final chapters talk about this as well Continue reading

via Wall of People Being Awesome on Chat Roulette. A post on Philipp Schmidt’s stream got me thinking about how we might tap into the 20 years of research on Peer Instruction to better inform peer learning initiatives.  I’m assuming here that readers are familiar with the Peer Instruction research (if you are not, you Continue reading