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

  • With the exception of the multitasking bit

    I think this video does a nice job of showing what a museum a university education has become: (h/t Andy Rush) Continue reading

  • Networked Learning and Distributed Reporting

    If I go often to the well of what’s going on in the Politics 2.0 and Reporting 2.0 space, it’s because few areas are going through such a radical high stakes change. Not change in a political sense, mind you. Much of the change going on is a rather frantic bid to make sure that… Continue reading

  • Front Page HuffPo

    So after all the political stories I’ve labored over, I finally made front page on Huffington Post — with a story I wrote in 5 minutes while downing my morning coffee. Oh well, I’ll take it! Thanks to the Off The Bus crowd who have been pushing hard to get these stories by amateurs like… 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

  • Entrepreneurship meets Service meets Academic Engagement…

    …and it’s not even that hard. I’ve said before that one of the fundamental things the university has not come to terms with is that in an environment where failure is inexpensive, undergraduates can be pushed to solve real problems, rather than to practice solving problems they might encounter once they get out of college.… Continue reading

  • Support Music over Lawyers. Buy Radiohead.

    The end is near. And that’s a very very good thing. Radiohead is offering it’s newest album on it’s website for advance download. The revolutionary thing? You pay what you want for it. Two dollars, ten dollars. Whatever. You make the call. The experiment has even got mainstream investing sites abuzz, saying that if this… Continue reading

  • Credentials

    I know it’s good form to say where you’ve been when you disappear off the face of your blog for two weeks. Answer: bilge-pumping. That said, we’ll try to do better next time. Now onto to other things. A side project I do got some news coverage this past Sunday. And it was a pretty… Continue reading

  • On Hockney, mathematicians, and the cross-cultural fallacy

    Via Udell, a link to a paper that attempts to refute David Hockney’s theory that the sudden shift to photographic styles in the Renaissance was due to the use of optical projection. It’s an interesting paper because it introduces what seems to be a new method of objectively measuring geometric deviations of paintings from “reality”,… Continue reading

  • The hypocisy of the recent ECAR study

    I had intended today to write today about the odd fracture in the recent ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, a fracture between Chris Dede’s “technology as world changer” intro, and the rather pedestrian “technology as customer service” bias of the questions posed by the actual report. I say “intended”, because when I… Continue reading

  • Dr. Sander Lee on James Madison and Democracy

    "I will be arguing, and this is a controversial opinion, that Madison’s support for democracy comes not because of a belief in the innate wisdom of the majority in society, but because he believes that in the absence of objective answers it is better for the honor of the individuals in society to allow everyone… Continue reading