Networked Learning
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Connexions News: New Editor, Big Announcement on March 31
I’ve become interesting in how forking content could help OER. The two big experiments in OER forking I know of come from WikiEducator and Connexions. (There may be others I’m forgetting; you can correct me in the comments). Connexions, in particular, has been looking at this issue for a very long time. In an effort not Continue reading
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Why I Don’t Edit Wikis (And Why You Don’t Either, and What We Can Do About That)
Back in the heady days of 2008, I was tempted to edit a Wikipedia article. Tempted. Jim Groom had just released EDUPUNK to the world, and someone had put up a stub on Wikipedia for the term. Given I was involved with the earlier discussions on the term, I thought I’d pitch in. Of course, Continue reading
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Short Notes on the Absence of Theory
Martin Weller, Stephen Downes, and Matt Crosslin have been kicking around the “post-theory” critique of MRI ’13 that came up in a discussion Jim Groom and I had Thursday night in the middle of a bar in the middle of a hotel in the middle of an ice storm. I thought I might just add 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
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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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The Myth of the All-in-one
Occasionally (well, OK, more than occassionally) I’m asked why we can’t just get a single educational tech application that would have everything our students could need — blogging, wikis, messaging, link-curation, etc. The simple answer to that is that such a tool does exist, it’s called Sharepoint, and it’s where content goes to die. The Continue reading
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Numeracy, Motivated Cognition, and Networked Learning
If you think general education will save the world — that a first-year course in economics, for example, will make students better judges of economic policy — think again. The finding that knowledge in these areas cannot overcome identity barriers (liberal/conservative, rural/urban, etc.) is well established. But the most recent study on the subject makes Continue reading
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