Tag Archives: pedagogy

Evolving Pedagogy from Crisis to Competency

Posted on March 25, 2020 by geoffcain

This post came out of a brainstorming sketch I did while trying to think of ways to help us adapt our way through this crisis and emerge with stronger courses, programs, and institutions. This isn’t how institutions typically behave: typically … 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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Some Thoughts on OER-Enabled Pedagogy

Posted on November 2, 2018 by geoffcain

“It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.”  ― Maurice Merleau-Ponty Definitions matter. In the September issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning vol. 19, no. 4, David Wiley and John Hilton published … 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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Week 0: Seimens and Downes on AI

Posted on October 25, 2018 by geoffcain

It was good to see Stephen Downes and George Siemens sitting down together and talking again for our Education 3.0 MOOC. It felt just like old times (CCK08, CCK11, etc.). I can’t really say what they do for one another … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Open Pedagogy v. OER-Enabled Pedagogy

Posted on November 1, 2017 by geoffcain

I think I understand David Wiley’s frustration with the semantics around “Open Education” – it is a very broad term. “Open” means many things to many people as does “education.” I am not sure if “OER-enabled Pedagogy” really addresses the … Continue reading →

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On Learning Objectives: A Response to Jeff Noonan

Posted on March 11, 2016 by geoffcain

Jeff Noonan wrote a great blog posing called “Ten Theses In Support of Teaching and Against Learning Outcomes.”I have called this a “response” but what it is really semi-random notes. This will be one of those postings that folks in … Continue reading →

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