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

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  • The Parable of the Thingamajig

    We are reaching the end of our evaluation process here on my eportfolio committee. So in a month of impassioned pleas, I hope y’all forgive me one more. This is the last push. But I want to do it this time by telling a story. I want us to pretend it is 1985, and we Continue reading

  • Announcing the Learning 2.0 Pecha Kucha Contest

    Heard of Pecha-Kucha? It’s poetry slam for the design crowd. Haiku for the business world. It’s the solution to Death by Powerpoint. Here’s the rules: Each pecha-kucha participant delivers a PowerPoint presentation Each presentation must comprise of 20 slides, no more, no less Each slide must be displayed for exactly 20 seconds Consequently, each presentation Continue reading

  • The college as student/project matchmaker

    What would happen if instead of encouraging students to build yet another fake bookstore project we had encouraged them to write wikiscanner? They’d have changed the world, that’s what. What if instead of having statistics students take multiple choice tests on data analysis we had them examine earmarks or deficit spending using ManyEyes? They’d change Continue reading

  • Leigh Blackall: Teaching is Dead, Long Live Learning

    So Leigh Blackall is my new favorite edublogger (Sorry Jim!). If you want to know why, you can listen to this podcast. Favorite thinker? Not sure. Thinker? It’s odd, but I feel these observations are just so obvious. I’m not sure I ever had to think them up, or that Leigh had to think them Continue reading

  • Loosely coupled assessment

    Here’s the thing it’s 2000 all over again. Eportfolio is the new LMS. Watching a recent vendor presentation I thought “I can’t believe this is happening again.” That single phrase. In a loop. In my head. Because remember — this happened once before. The LMS vendors came in with an assessment and management tool, and Continue reading

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  • Electronic Textbooks and CommentPress

    Via bavatuesdays, I learn of CommentPress. Obviously there are other non-WP group annotation tools. What’s really striking to me here, however, is how powerful the fit is between the CommentPress approach to text and the best bits of traditional literary exegesis. So great is the fit, as a matter of fact, that I half wonder Continue reading

  • Goal-based scenario/simulation vs. learning 2.0

    The most invigorating job I ever had was working for CognitiveArts programming learning “simulations”. Founded by Roger Schank, CogArts was truly a company with a mission — to revolutionize education through technology rather than simply extend the current system. And we pushed the envelope in every way we could. I worked with a large team Continue reading

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  • In Which I Meet Our (Other) Allies

    So, I’ve just stumbled into a gold mine. Via an inbound link from Stephen Downes, I’ve discovered that much of what I’ve been calling an inverted LMS has been called elsewhere a PLE (personal learning environment): Helen Barrett receives an email from Mike Caulfield describing an Inverted LMS, which turns out to be the PLE, Continue reading

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  • Marc Andreessen Supports the Inverted LMS (sort of)

    This is fascinating, to me at least. Marc (are we allowed to call him Marca?) came late to blogging, but he’s clearly making up for lost time and talking to the right people. But what I noted in his recent post was how much his view of the larger web (via Sifry) matches exactly what Continue reading

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  • Inverted LMS Revisited: The various uses of containers

    Gardner Writes has a good critique of of my Inverted LMS post, which raises a number of important issues. So let’s say first I am both manifesto-prone and conversation-addicted, and those things generally equal out. This is conversation Mike speaking. The question Gardner poses is whether “student-centered” swings too far in the other direction: But Continue reading