Informational Cascades in Online Learning
On TRDev the other day, after there occurred a brief discussion of 'groupthink', I posted a note about cascades. My post was not well written, I guess, because it had utterly no influence on the discussion. More...
20 novembre 2018
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Competencies for Teachers
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Competencies for Teachers
Very nice list of links to ICT competencies for teachers, including material from various Australian education councils, National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (U.S.), Education Network Ontario, SOEID Scotland, and more. More...
Digital Technologies Can Be The Key Building Blocks To A New Economic Future
Digital Technologies Can Be The Key Building Blocks To A New Economic Future
Robin Good's take on an interview with Howard Rheingold on MSNBC. I have always enjoyed Rheingold - he's one of those with a good finger on the pulse of the internet. More...
Advertisers Reward Bloggers For Doing What They Do Best
Advertisers Reward Bloggers For Doing What They Do Best
Following on the heels of the Google announcement covered here this week is this item in Roben Good describing a program by a company called Blogversations whereby a company contracts some bloggers in their field to review and discuss their products. More...
Change Your Mind?
Change Your Mind?
Dave Pollard looks at the implications of a site called Change This. The idea of Change This is to produce glossy PDF 'manifestos' which are supposed to be passed, meme-link, but without comment (how can you comment on a PDF?), through the web. The manifesto, argues Pollard, is exactly the wrong way to go about changing minds. More...
Poorer Students Sought
Poorer Students Sought
According to this article, colleges and universities are courting poorer students in order to be more accessible. But with statistics like these - "More than 80 percent of students from families earning more than $88,675 annually go to college, compared with less than 60 percent of those whose families earn less than $35,066, according to the College Board" - it's hard to believe. More...
A Little Knowledge is A Dangerous Thing
A Little Knowledge is A Dangerous Thing
Carol Twigg tears into Bill Massy's and Bob Zemsky's recent Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to e-learning and Why, which concluded that e-learning was, overall, a failure. She doesn't like the methodology, she doesn't like the sample, she doesn't like the definitions. These criticisms are valid, but what Twigg doesn't do, unfortunately, is address the authors' conclusion. More...
Doubts about OKI and Sakai
Doubts about OKI and Sakai
Michael Feldstein shares my concerns. "In our quest for technical standards of inter-operability, are we losing sight of loose coupling? Are we trying to over-engineer something that perhaps would work best through organic growth?" How many more stories like this are there out there. More...
Informational Cascades in Online Learning
Educational Blogging
Educational Blogging
The September EDUCAUSE Review is out and features my article on the topic (as the title suggests) educational blogging. This is a longer article, looking at the nature and history of blogging, educational applications, tools and technologies, trends, and early experiences in educational blogging. More...
E-Learning Queen
E-Learning Queen
Started five days ago, E-Learning Queen is a new blog, with three posts to its name. The first, a look at the ethics of video game-based simulation, is well worth a read. More...
