jared stein
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UVU and the OCWC
Jared Stein writes on his blog that UVU has decided to go open, using a very simple mechanism: Now UVU is not just a vocational/trade school (though I daresay there is more than one administrator who would like to de-emphasize that fact now that we are a university); most of our programs are in the Continue reading
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Enterprise Learning Systems Considered Harmful to Learning
Not a new thought, but one I’m newly fired up about after talking to Jon Udell last night. We don’t make enterprise purchases for students when it comes to spiral bound notebooks, pencils, or binders. So why do we move so quickly to consider e-learning questions “enterprise” questions? When looking at e-portfolio possibilities, why wouldn’t Continue reading
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Seth Godin: Blow up your Home Page
The general 30,000 foot view from Seth Godin: The problem with home page thinking is that it’s a crutch. There’s nothing wrong with an index, nothing wrong with a page for newbies, nothing wrong with a place that makes a first impression when you get the chance to control that encounter. But it’s not your Continue reading
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Systemantics Thought for the Day: Loose Systems Less Hostile to Human Life
From John Gall’s Systemantics: Since most of modern life is lived in the interstices of large systems, it is of practical importance to note that: LOOSE SYSTEMS HAVE LARGER INTERSTICES and are therefore generally somewhat less hostile to human life forms than tighter systems. As an example of a System attunned to the principles of Continue reading
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