Appendix
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Purpose-driven OER
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
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It’s not so much a case of “Here Comes Everybody”, as of “Everybody Was Here All Along”. People aren’t late to this party, technology and business are.
It’s not so much a case of “Here Comes Everybody”, as of “Everybody Was Here All Along”. People aren’t late to this party, technology and business are.Matt Edgar, http://matt.me63.com/2008/05/22/erm-excuse-me-but-i-think-everybody-was-here-all-along/ Continue reading
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The Spamonyms Arrive at Google Plus
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
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Encarta Price Curve of Death
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
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On George Siemens’s Duplication Theory of Value
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
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Ed Roulette
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
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Smart Use of Cognitive Disfluency Goes Mainstream
From the NYT, today: Another common misconception about how we learn holds that if information feels easy to absorb, we’ve learned it well. In fact, the opposite is true. When we work hard to understand information, we recall it better; the extra effort signals the brain that this knowledge is worth keeping. This phenomenon, known… Continue reading
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NH to make $35 million in state agency cuts [Healthcare vs. Higher Ed., Again]
NH to make $35 million in state agency cuts [Healthcare vs. Higher Ed., Again] After last Spring’s cuts, the State of New Hampshire provides only 5% of our operational budget at Keene State College. The word on the street is this new round of cuts will reduce it to 3%. A lot of this is… Continue reading
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Peer Instruction Failure
Peer Instruction Failure I’ve been making sure to note places where experimentation shows at least partial failure of Peer Instruction. This article (“Effect of personal response systems on student perception and academic performance in courses in a health sciences curriculum”) is a good example of that. Only one of the sections fails, but it’s worth… Continue reading
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Scholarships Go Disproportionately To White Students
Scholarships Go Disproportionately To White Students From Yglesias, today: The issue here isn’t racial discrimination, it’s a symptom of the fact that the incentive structure of American higher education is totally screwy. Schools want to produce two things. One is rich alumni who give them money, and the other is high ratings from US News… Continue reading
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