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WordPress Hosted H5P Test

Posted on February 13, 2020 by geoffcain
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The Edu-Decade That Was: Unfounded Optimism?

Posted on January 18, 2020 by geoffcain

I have seen a number of end-of-the-year/decade posts that seem to be somewhat pessimistic. There are a LOT of reasons to be pessimistic: especially in the education technology sector: privitization of teaching and learning; Betsy DeVos; corporate enclosing of the … Continue reading →

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A New Open Textbook on Philosophy

Posted on September 22, 2019 by geoffcain

I got a notice of this last week. It looks like a good introduction to philosophy. I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the series: “Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind surveys both historical and contemporary theories and … Continue reading →

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Hypothes.is: The Web That Was Meant To Be

Posted on June 13, 2019 by geoffcain

This post is way over-due. I have been using the online collaborative annotation tool, Hypothesis, for a while now. I participated in the Annotating Engelbart Project which used Hypothes.is as the central tool/task for the project; I started using it … Continue reading →

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Open Pedagogy as an Exponential Accelerator in OER Creation

Posted on April 17, 2019 by geoffcain

Michael Dabrowski from Athabasca University presented on using open pedagogy to have students create assignments. This was a good workshop because he gave a lot of actual applications of open pedagogy from his classroom.  According to the schedule: Attendees will … Continue reading →

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Community as Infrastructure

Posted on April 17, 2019 by geoffcain

My first session at the Cascadia Open Education Summit was Zoe Wake Hyde’s Community as Infrastructure: Building a scalable, sustainable approach to open textbook publishing. I am very excited about this presentation because I have been following the Rebus Foundation … Continue reading →

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Engelbart: Language as a Tool

Posted on March 11, 2019 by geoffcain

I am still working on the Annotating Engelbart project. Gardner gave us a “syllabus,” in a way, that had a timeline and what we were going to read together, and in my usual fashion, I have taken off from there … Continue reading →

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Engelbart: Bootstrapping and Symbiosis

Posted on March 4, 2019 by geoffcain

Okay, for anyone reading these series of posts on Engelbart, here is where I begin to turn this huge ship towards pedagogy and ed tech. As I read through Engelbart’s Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework for the Annotating Engelbart project, I … Continue reading →

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Engelbart: On Teaching Programming

Posted on February 20, 2019 by geoffcain

This is my expanded response to the Jon Udell video that is part of the Annnotating Engelbart project. I appreciate the time Jon took to participate in this work. In Jon’s discussion with Gardner, he wonders if it is practical … Continue reading →

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Week 0.5 – eLearning 3.0

Posted on October 29, 2018 by geoffcain

I just finished watching Stephen Downes’ talk on Web3 technologies and their implications for learning. I am very interested in what Stephen had to say about technologies being used to build consensus and decision making. I think a shared, distributed … Continue reading →

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