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  • Is OCW a “shovel-ready infrastructure project”?

    More on this later, but I wanted to throw this out to see if anyone had any thoughts on it. You’ve probably heard that to stave off the next Great Depression, the government will intervene in the form of a massive stimulus package, focused on infrastructure. What gets interesting is not that the government may Continue reading

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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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  • OCW, Pandora Radio, and the Myth of Web 4.0

    Just as people I know have finally come round to using Pandora Radio I’ve grown sick of it. I can’t remember when I started using Pandora, and as you will see in a minute, that’s part of my problem with it. The first song I bookmarked was in March of 2006, but I think I Continue reading

  • If a Columnist Calls a Tail a Leg…

    There was yet another Andrew Keen inspired article last week bemoaning the age of “wikiality” — an age of supposed gullibility of us internet sorts. It begins with shocking news — people are getting quotes wrong, and Web 2.0 is at fault: Truth: Can You Handle It? Better Yet: Do You Know It When You Continue reading

  • The Meaningless Homepage

    [Cross-posted in part at the Online Communications Blog] Good article today forwarded to me by Jenny Darrow asking whether sites like keene.edu are becoming increasingly irrelevant as marketing tools. The answer is obvious to anyone that’s ever looked at their Google Analytics: yes, absolutely. You can see this clearly in the statistics — students come 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

  • There is no “tech”. Get over it.

    Via SmartMobs, regarding our millenials: “Young people don’t see “tech” as a separate entity – it’s an organic part of their lives,” said Andrew Davidson, vice president of MTV’s VBS International Insight unit. “Talking to them about the role of technology in their lifestyle would be like talking to kids in the 1980s about the 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

  • 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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  • 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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