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

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  • The Sieve Manufacture Continues at Udacity

    From Udacity last week, regarding the phasing out of free certificates: “We owe it to you, our hard working students, that we do whatever we can to ensure your certificate is as valuable as possible.” and We have now heard from many students and employers alike that they would like to see more rigor in Continue reading

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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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  • Is OCW a “shovel-ready infrastructure project”?

    More on this later, but I wanted to throw this out to see if anyone had any thoughts on it. You’ve probably heard that to stave off the next Great Depression, the government will intervene in the form of a massive stimulus package, focused on infrastructure. What gets interesting is not that the government may Continue reading

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  • OCW, Pandora Radio, and the Myth of Web 4.0

    Just as people I know have finally come round to using Pandora Radio I’ve grown sick of it. I can’t remember when I started using Pandora, and as you will see in a minute, that’s part of my problem with it. The first song I bookmarked was in March of 2006, but I think I Continue reading

  • Edu_protectionism

    I’ve been working on the college AT Vision, trying to hone it down. It’s an attempt to get beyond the technology and the hype. But even with all the buzz removed, I still occassionally feel like the question of the AT plan is formulated in such a way that the answer can never be what Continue reading

  • A short explanation from a terminal smasher (or, Blackboard as an access control company)

    YAAY! I am also going to smash all my corporate-made computers and hand-build my own. It’s NOT about the vehicle – it’s how you use it… — Lee (no last name provided) dismissing EDUPUNK in a comment on the Chronicle article As a person who has been involved in quite a bit of social activism, Continue reading

  • Citizen Keene

    After a very confusing vote on a local school bond, I’ve stepped down from my old project Blue Hampshire, to start a local information site, called Citizen Keene. There were an number of other reasons for stepping down — as a newly promoted Director at a public college, I wanted to move away from being Continue reading

  • SPACEWAR Is Still My Metaphor

    It’s important sometimes to realize that while we are blazing new trails in mainstream education, we are really dealing with the dam of industrial culture finally breaking. We’ve been paying attention enough to know why it’s breaking. We deserve credit for that. In fact, we’ve been waiting for it to break. But the ideas that Continue reading

  • Curatorial Teaching

    Finally got around to listening to this. It’s good. It’s nascent, but maybe that’s why I love it so much: http://learnonline.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/10-minute-lecture-george-siemens-curatorial-teaching/ It’s not a total solution to the sage-on-the-stage v. guide-on-the-side but it’s a great rethinking, and it’s very practical to implement. It’s also refreshing that Siemens approach is not kick-against-the-pricks* (an approach I’m often Continue reading

  • This is your Italian course. This is your Italian course on WordPress.

    Some day I’ll get tired of admitting how far ahead of the pack UMW is. Today is not that day. So to paraphrase that guy with the egg… This is your Italian course: And this is your Italian course on WordPress: Click the above image to check out a module a UMW Italian professor put Continue reading