Hapgood

Now sure, with a title like this I coud probably have this post fire randomly throughout the year and nine out of ten times it would be true. But the discussion Dan has been facilitating over the past several months about what “real world” education means (and why “fake” assignments can be better than “real Continue reading

Short follow-up to yesterday’s post. As many people do, I referred to the cycle of elite online learning iniatives as “Groundhog Day“. And from our perspective that’s probably apt. But it occurs to me that from their perspective it’s Memento. MASSIVE spoiler alert here, but the premise of Memento is that the memory-damaged Leonard Shelby Continue reading

From the Chronicle: Beginning in March, HarvardX for Alumni will offer versions of seven Harvard MOOCs exclusively to graduates of the university. The courses will not be full-length MOOCs but “segments” that include some new material developed specially for graduates, according to Michael Rutter, a spokesman. Some professors might even travel to talk about the Continue reading

Hey, I’ve invented a new initialism: pd;dr. For “Pando Daily; Don’t Read”. It’s necessitated by me quoting a Pando story, but not wanting you to follow the link there and have your faith in humanity whittled down to a stump by the articles that will be in your peripheral vision.  In any case, there’s an Continue reading

The theme for #FutureEd this week was expressed in a Toffler quote (which turns out to not quite be a Toffler quote): The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. I find this quote a bit frustrating. For one, I Continue reading

This post is going to be a bit geeky, and a tad technical. So there’s your warning. I’ve been thinking a lot about the forkable Domain of One’s Own wiki, with its GitHub underpinning. And I’ve been watching a lot of Ward Cunningham’s videos on the concept of federated wikis. And the thing I’ve come Continue reading

UPDATE: Cathy Davidson replies in the comments. It looks like moving the the timeline out of the Coursera platfrom has been planned but not yet implemented; they will be taking a similar approach to the Rap Genius approach they are taking with the Constitution. Thanks for the reply, Cathy! I still encourage you to read Continue reading

For as long as I have been involved in the Open Education Resources community there’s always been that moment in a conversation where someone comes up with the “brilliant” idea of building a central OER repository to solve the OER “findability problem”. I usually bite my tongue until it bleeds at that point and do Continue reading

So I’m sure you know this — supporting 50 individual WordPress blog sites is draining and expensive. But if you have that sort of scale, you can get WordPress Multiuser instead, and put em all on that, and its rather cheap to maintain.  Likewise, as efforts around a technology expand, support per person goes down Continue reading