What does “Good Enough” OER look like?
It looks like Sal Khan.
I just saw his stuff via Jon Udell, and it blew me away. Technically, it’s not under an open license, but every single person involved in OER should look at the site. Right now.
Forget the “lecture capture” vendors. Don’t worry about editing out false [...]
Feb
4
2010
4
2010
Stop capturing classes, and start capturing explanations.
Feb
2
2010
2
2010
Is Facebook Doppleganger Week the Largest Scale Copyright Infringement in History?
Most of you have heard of Facebook Celebrity Doppleganger week by now. Because viruses spread unequally I think it’s actually in week three.
The way it works is simple. You change your profile picture to that of a celebrity that someone once told you you look like.
Here’s what I find interesting — it looks to [...]
Jan
29
2010
29
2010
The iPad and the Timex/Sinclair 1000
When I first saw the tweets flowing about the iPad presentation I was skipping, I half-jokingly said what I’d rather have is a Timex/Sinclair 1000.
But it was a weird moment, because I then went and go a link to an image of the TS-1000 and it all came flooding back. It was a huge [...]
Jan
27
2010
27
2010
Belated Realization About the Romance of Mobile Learning
I just realized that everything I said below about the Apple Tablet and newspapers applies almost directly to Higher Education and mobile learning.
I think it’s quite likely the reason that mobile learning is consistently overhyped, despite its obvious defects, is that implicit in the image of a student watching a lecture on his phone in [...]
Jan
27
2010
27
2010
The Real Reason That Newspapers Think the Apple iPad Will Save Them
It’s really amusing to watch newspapers and magazines talk about how the Apple Tablet will save them. Here’s an fun example:
Should Steve Jobs introduce Apple’s tablet (the iPad, iSlate, iTablet, or perhaps iBook) at the company’s press event on Wednesday, the device will likely contain a number of features: users will be able to play [...]
Jan
22
2010
22
2010
The Internet is a Human Rights Issue Except When It's Not
Hillary Clinton, yesterday:
In a sweeping, pointed address that dealt with the Internet as a force for both liberation and repression, Mrs. Clinton said: “Those who disrupt the free flow of information in our society or any other pose a threat to our economy, our government and our civil society. Countries or individuals that engage in [...]
Jan
13
2010
13
2010
Artificial Scarcities
A good friend of mine asked me what I thought of the Lanier article in the NYT. Well, first reaction is that I’m sick of this media narrative:
“Person X was once part of the Digerati. Now they have have turned against it! The fact that they were for it before and are now against it [...]
Jan
8
2010
8
2010
Stealing Whuffie
Just a short thought from the car-ride to work today.
If we are moving to a reputation based economy, where one’s ability to make a living is based on their network reputation, stealing attribution is a far greater crime than stealing intellectual property. The newspaper reporter who does not link to the blog that actually broke [...]
Jan
4
2010
4
2010
OER and Pragmatism through the Overton Window
Was going to write a screed here on ideology and pragmatism when I realized I was looking at the recent Siemens piece all wrong.
I can’t get into the debate about whether it’s appropriate to advance open education by using tools from Google. It’s a debate without a bottom (and one I’d argue ignores the different [...]
Dec
17
2009
17
2009
A Department-Based Twitter Aggregator in Google App Engine
We have a department twitter account here at CELT. The idea of that account is it’s a place to share edtech and ed design info without forcing faculty members to sort through my political rants, Jenny’s comments about beer and biking, etc.
But obviously it’s makes very little sense for us to log into that account [...]