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 need to [...]
Dec
8
2008
8
2008
Is OCW a "shovel-ready infrastructure project"?
Nov
13
2008
13
2008
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 liberal [...]
Oct
27
2008
27
2008
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 may [...]
May
7
2008
7
2008
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 See It?
By [...]
Apr
21
2008
21
2008
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 in and [...]
Oct
15
2007
15
2007
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 new [...]
Aug
10
2007
10
2007
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 role the [...]
Aug
3
2007
3
2007
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 we need?
Prometheus: [...]
Jul
31
2007
31
2007
Loosely coupled assessment
Here’s the thing — it’s 2000 all over. 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 told us it [...]
Jul
27
2007
27
2007
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 [...]