social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
Traveling without moving by FredArmitage
I have largely suppressed my memories of being UBC’s ‘learning objects project coordinator’ 5 or 6 years back. But I do vividly recall the drive to develop a robust form of “federated search” that would allow users to search across a range of locally-hosted learning resource collections. Were such a thing [...]
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Nifty post from Laura J. Murray (via Michael Geist) on the implications of Bill C-61 for Canadian online educators:
It says kindly that an electronically transmitted lesson will indeed count as a lesson in the eyes of the law. But it wants this lesson to behave just like a classroom lesson: when it’s over, it’s gone. [...]
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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, originally uploaded by glynnish.
I don’t know about you, but for me it’s a fairly tried and true structure for a collaborative hands-on exercise. Get a bunch of people to contribute little bits, then try to make it come together into some kind of cool sharable artifact in the end. When [...]
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I just saw on Twitter that Martin Weller (whose post on the gap between Web 2.0 and higher education is a must read) is submitting a proposal to this year’s Open Education Conference, hosted by Utah State University’s Center for Open and Sustainable Learning on September 24-26. Which reminded me that I haven’t plugged the [...]
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UBC Farm – Kids’ Garden, originally uploaded by amandamandapants.
2008 has been marked by disturbing revelations about the global food market, as we learn that the heavy energy dependence of large-scale commodity farming can have shocking [...]
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Disney Institute — Steamboat Willie Says Take Risks, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.
Another week, yet another round of copyright news that moves from simply absurd into the realm of the truly frightening.
Canada has seen the re-launch [...]
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I write this sitting in a mostly-empty auditorium, the technical checks for David Wiley’s virtual keynote completed, hoping things go smoothly, as I’m the putative moderator on this end. I’m looking forward to hearing what David has to say for a number of reasons, not least of which is that I have been reusing a [...]
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I had resolved to give the Edupunk thing a rest, lest I uncork a rant on the differences between “a metaphor” and “a movement” or offer up patronizing tips on how to tell if someone is having a bit of fun.
But Martin Weller’s response to Tony Hirst’s video is too funny for me to ignore. [...]
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In addition to being the living embodiment of data literacy in learning, Tony Hirst has done some mad stuff in the past, be it an epic manifesto concerning RSS and learning, or this hilarious diplomatic missive to Tom and Jim’s People’s Republic of Non-Programmistan. But I daresay he’s outdone himself with ‘changing user expectations: finding [...]
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…so I got a real kick when Rick Schwier invoked Abbie Hoffman in his edupunk post. Which reminded me of this riff from Steal This Book:
Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it. If there is stuff that you want to learn though, there [...]
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