I’d never heard of the IKEA effect, the tendency of people to overvalue work done themselves, but it seems really pertinent to OER (and OpenCourseWare).  As an example, Dan Ariely points out when cake mixes were first introduced, you just added water. Simple! And no one bought them.  After focus groups they found the problem… Continue reading

I agree with this, I think: “The constructivist-direct instruction characterization is a false dichotomy, and trying to operationalize something as complex and contextually varied as teaching in such simplistic terms seems to me a mistake. What is needed is not coarse labeling of artificially grouped approaches to instruction; but an iterative program of studies that… Continue reading

Yep, it’s me, Mike Caulfield, and it’s a new blog. Don’t want to talk about it right now. Here’s slides with notes from my USNH AT Institute keynote.  I will have a slideshare version up with audio soon. If you want the narrative though, you can go here: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcb2rjpn_35cwwvftfq Where I wrote the presentation in… Continue reading