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Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

October 2013

  • Educational Technology and the Sources of Innovation

    Cross-posted from e-Literate. After reading an an excellent post by tech-blogger Jon Udell on innovation, I spent the weekend getting reacquainted with work of Eric von Hippel, the researcher who pioneered the study of user-driven innovation. What’s interesting about von Hippel is that his research hits on the common themes of the open education movement, Continue reading

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  • That “Flipped Classrooms May Not Work” Story

    This USA Today article is unfortunately par for the course in educational journalism today. Phil Hill already has an excellent take on this story, but let me add my two cents. It details the preliminary “impressions” of professors engaged in a three year study that will end in 2016. Despite having run flipped classes, they Continue reading

  • For Precisely This Moment

    Jon Udell gets it 100% right: “Thanks to the philosophical foundations of the Internet — open standards, collaborative design, layered architecture — its technologies typically qualify as user innovation toolkits. That wasn’t true, though, for the Internet era’s first wave of educational technologies. That’s why my friends in that field led a rebellion against learning Continue reading

  • The $10,000 Degree: A Response, Part II

    About a week ago I critiqued the first half of the Third Way report on the “$10,000 degree“. In that post I talked a bit about bloat and some of the issues with reconstructing college positions. Moving on, the report’s suggestions around use of blended learning and the impact of student success initiatives on cost Continue reading

  • Some Notes on Using MOOCs for Blended Instruction

    Tayna Joosten asks on Twitter whether anyone has any best practices for reusing MOOCs. I’ve been looking at this with Amy Collier, Helen Chen and others, but we’ve tended to focus on the question of how to create MOOCs that make reuse easier. However, it’s not a big jump to flip that perspective around to Continue reading

  • Is Domain of One’s Own a platform?

    Is Domain of One’s Own a platform? The short answer is no, not in the traditional sense. But I came across this 1995 post from Dave Winer about what a platform should be, and there is some definite resonance with his conception of the idea: A platform must have potential, or open space. I call Continue reading

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  • Rediscovering (Semi-)Social Bookmarking

    I joined Pinboard, the new, ad-free, pay-once-get-it-forever social bookmarking service a few months ago for an educational tech project I am working on. I’m not new to social-bookmarking — I’d been an early user of delicious, a Diigo migrant, and ultimately became a lapsed bookmarker, confused about why the whole thing hadn’t worked out. I Continue reading

  • A Plan for a $10K Degree: A Response

    A new proposal is out from Third Way, authored by Anya Kamenetz. It makes an argument for a radical restructuring of higher education in pursuit of a radically cheaper degree. I plan to write a few blog posts on its proposals. This is the first. There’s many things to like about the plan. I like Continue reading

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