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 [...]
Nov
13
2008
13
2008
UVU and the OCWC
Jul
24
2008
24
2008
My new job with the OpenCourseWare Consortium
I’m excited beyond words to annouce that starting August 25th I will be working for the OpenCourseWare Consortium as their first Director of Community Outreach. Or at least we think that’s the title of the position. This is the job that appeared in OLDaily some time ago as a marketing job.
For me, there’s a great [...]
Jul
21
2008
21
2008
Practical Art and Stallman, revisited
I started to type this as a response to the gracious comment Ismael left me on the Stallman post, but it quickly got big, so I am putting it here:
Ismael writes:
The rationale behind my quote of his about art (not actually a literal quote, but actually faithful to what he said) was that:
- if we’re [...]
Aug
31
2007
31
2007
This is your Italian course. This is your Italian course on WordPress.
Some day I’ll get tired of admitting how far ahead of the pack UMW is.
Today is not that day.
So to paraphrase that guy with the egg…
This is your Italian course:
And this is your Italian course on WordPress:
Click the above image to check out a module a UMW Italian professor put together on the Vespa [...]
Aug
29
2007
29
2007
The Parable of the Thingamajig
We are reaching the end of our evaluation process here on my eportfolio committee. So in a month of impassioned pleas, I hope y’all forgive me one more. This is the last push.
But I want to do it this time by telling a story.
I want us to pretend it is 1985, and we are considering [...]
Aug
8
2007
8
2007
Progress on loosely coupled assessment
So we watched a presentation yesterday by True Outcomes, and of course I had to hold my nose a bit. I come from the “merit badge” school of Roger Schank, that ideally assessments fall into to the category of “Student X can build a fire, and we know that because he built a fire” (or [...]
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
25
2007
25
2007
In Which I Meet Our (Other) Allies
So, I’ve just stumbled into a gold mine. Via an inbound link from Stephen Downes, I’ve discovered that much of what I’ve been calling an inverted LMS has been called elsewhere a PLE (personal learning environment):
Helen Barrett receives an email from Mike Caulfield describing an Inverted LMS, which turns out to be the PLE, [...]
Jun
21
2007
21
2007
WordPress MU and eportfolio reporting requirements
I had the good luck this week to stumble into a very helpful blogswarm. And since it’s best to make use of their expertise while they are still checking back here, let’s cut to the chase.
Here is the new thought, re: eportfolios and other WP projects needing data aggregation.
Append an optional process at the end [...]
Jun
17
2007
17
2007
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 we [...]