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Nine Essential MOOC Links
George Siemens at TEDxNYED. (Wikipedia) A few of us from today’s NGLC presentation “MOOCs: open online courses as levers for change in higher education” by George Siemens on MOOCs were passing around a few URLs, and I thought it would … Continue reading
The Real Trouble With Online Education
E-learning ( London College of Fashion) An editorial piece in the New York Times on July 19th by Mark Edmundson attempts to tell us about “The Trouble with Online Education.” Despite the fact that the author does not appear to have … Continue reading
Why MOOCs Work
Jim Groom as Edupunk (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I have been reading articles lately written by educators who have not participated in MOOCs but nonetheless seem to have some pretty strong opinions about them such as the “What’s the Matter With MOOCs” … Continue reading
Posted in connectivism, ds106, Instructional Design, MOOC, pedagogy
Tagged Siva Vaidhyanathan, Stephen Downes
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Check Please! Crowdsourcing the Menu at the NYPL
NY Public Library (Photo:Austin_YeahBaby) The New York Public Library has a fascinating menu collection of over 45,000 menus dating from the 1840s to the present. It is one of the largest collections in the world and according to their website, … Continue reading
France: Minitel and the Internet
Minitel, France, 1982. Wikipedia I was just in Paris this month. How did I get to Paris? Fortunately for me, my car got stolen in October, and I decided to go to Paris instead of replacing it. We were a two … Continue reading
Wired Love: From Telegraph to Twitter
An illustration of Phelps’ Electro-motor Printing Telegraph, the last and most advanced telegraphy mechanism designed by George May Phelps. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)This is an article I wrote for the “Tech Beat” column for the Times-Standard: As one who works in … Continue reading
Twitter and the Greater Community
Tweeting bird, derived from the initial ‘t’ of Twitter Deutsch: Twitschervogel, entwickelt aus dem Anfangs-‘t’ von Twitter (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Over the last week, I went to a bookstore where an internationally known author was reading from her latest book. As … Continue reading
Posted in connectivism, Social media, Social network, social networks, twitter
Tagged Online Communities, Tweet
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Vaclev Havel and the 300-Baud Velvet Revolution
Image via WikipediaI was familiar with Václav Havel through his writings and only later came to understand his significance as a politician (I hate to use that word to describe people I like) as communism fell. Havel had to distribute … Continue reading
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Tagged Myanmar, Prague Spring, Václav Havel, Velvet Revolution
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Why #Occupy will succeed
George Siemens wrote an interesting post on the Occupy Movement earlier this month. I think he gets that leaderless, connected groups can succeed but he also writes “I saw a few #occupy members on Colbert Report yesterday. They may not … Continue reading
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Tagged Occupy Movement, Occupy Wallstreet, United States, Vietnam War, Wall Street
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Connectivism and Agile Software Development
Image by sjcockell via FlickrAs a director of distance education, I often have multiple projects going on: some with the in-house team or with others at a distance in grant projects. I have been researching how projects get done for … Continue reading
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Tagged Stephen Downes, Tacoma Community College
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