By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. On the false binary of LMS vs. Open
D'Arcy Norman, D’Arcy Norman dot net, 2014/09/16
I'm happy to accept D'Arcy Norman's contention that "We have a responsibility to provide a high quality environment to every single instructor and student, and the LMS is still the best way to do that." But I think he goes overboard i8n his defense of it, and in particular, I think this is wrong. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. POSSE
Unattributed, Indie Web Camp, 2014/09/19

During my recent talk I discussed the POSSE model, which describes owned, bought and earned media (POSSE = produced, owned, seeded, social, earned). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Balance is an Illusion
Tim Klapdor, 2014/09/19
This isn't directly related to educational technology, but it's a point that lies at the foundations of how we thing, and it's important to address a misconception. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Dungeons and Dragons vs the art of business strategy
Simon Wardley, Bits or pieces?, 2014/09/15
I think I'm pretty good at business strategy - I certainly have managed thus far to organize some reasonably large projects. But I didn't learn my skills from business school (I doubt my ethics and policits would permit me to graduate from such a place). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Flipping Grade 4 and Flipping Bloom's Taxonomy Triangle
Maggie Hos-McGrane, Tech Transformation, 2014/09/15
I'm no fan of taxonomies but I'm a fan of the thinking behind this post. By 'flipping' Bloom's taxonomy, we get an approach to education that does not begin with remembering, it ends with remembering. And (I would add) the objective of such an education isn't remembering at all (and certainly not remembering some sort of core content); that's an outcome, but it isn't what we're striving for, necessarily. More...