By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. EDUPUNK: It was pure in my heart!
Jim Groom, bavatuesdays, 2015/12/14
I'm not sure how seriously you should take this mockumentary, but it's worth thinking back to a time not even a decade ago when Facebook was young, when Twitter was a startup, and when anything beyond staid learning objects and management systems was punk. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Relating the Learning Ecosystem to other Ecosystems
Wendy Wickham, In the Middle of the Curve, 2015/12/11
This is just a snapshot, some thoughts in the process of being thought, illustrating the sort of thinking people should be thinking in today's learning environment. More...
By Matt Reed. Stephen Pearlstein’s piece this weekend in the Washington Post, “Four Tough Things Universities Should Do To Rein In Costs,” reminded me of an old line about football announcers. When a play goes bad, or a team has a rough season, announcers will frequently say that the team lacks “discipline.” It conveys a certain gravitas to the speaker, without requiring the speaker to have any actual knowledge. More...
By Matt Reed. The next several weeks are some of the most stressful ones of the year for lower-income students.
That’s because two demands on their time are increasing simultaneously: seasonally increased hours at many retail and customer service jobs, and the late-semester ramp-up to final projects, papers, and exams. More...
By Matt Reed. (“The Prereq Temptation” was a rejected John LeCarre title. A lot of people don’t know that…)
In my imagined, more perfect world, there would be exactly one reason for a prerequisite to attach to a class: the students would need to know material from the prior class to be successful in the second one. More...
By Rob Zinkan. If you accounted for the types of activities that fill each workday, what would be the breakdown of substance versus trivia? In The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership, USC president emeritus Steve Sample provides a dose of reality with his 70/30 formula. More...By Kristine Maloney. Earlier this fall a headline in The Atlantic caught my eye. “The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing,” it said. Promising enough on its own, but there was also a subhead: “A new movement strives for simplicity.” It was like Christmas had come early. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
