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

  • Progress on loosely coupled assessment

    So we watched a presentation yesterday by True Outcomes, and of course I had to hold my nose a bit. I come from the “merit badge” school of Roger Schank, that ideally assessments fall into to the category of “Student X can build a fire, and we know that because he built a fire” (or Continue reading

  • First 35 claims of Blackboard’s patent ruled invalid

    Here. (h/t S. Downes) So my thought for the day: What are we doing to make sure this situation does not repeat itself with PLEs and PKMs? Continue reading

  • Panels

    I just got back from YearlyKos, where I was an “expert” on a panel on local blogging. It was the middle panel of a series of three on the issue (local blogging is THE hot topic right now). I thought our panel went pretty well. We got into interesting issues, we had an active audience, Continue reading

  • Prometheus Meets the Enterprise Management System

    Prometheus, holding a torch, enters a small office in a corporate IT department. At the desk is Fred, who looks up when he enters. Prometheus: Behold, I bring you fire! Fred: Great! We’ve heard about the fire market. Very exciting. So is that it? That flaming stick you’re holding? That’s the product? How many do 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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  • EPortaro demonstration today (any help?)

    I’m attending an EPortaro demonstration in about 50 minutes. If you read this blog at all, you can probably guess what I think about such eportfolio solutions. It’s 2000 all over again, with vendors coming in to save us from the big, bad internet. Still, my opinion is probably the minority one on my commitee, Continue reading

  • Where will the wave come from?

    I love talking the theory, but it’s even nicer to see practical notes from people implementing solutions. From a recent post over here, some WordPress MU as class-space experimentation… Teachers are finding WordPress MU easy to use and I’m very happy to see that. Currently, Teacher Assistants are recording students as they read their writings Continue reading

  • 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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