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Economy and Internet Trends

Mary Meeker delivered a presentation to Web 2.0 conference recently looking at the state of the economy and the Internet (powerpoint/pdf slides). From slide 28, a quick look back over the last few years: 2004 – China Internet – Opportunity is Immense 2005 – Broadband – Becoming Pervasive, Driving Growth in Communications / UGC 2006 [...]

Rough week for higher education

General Motors is now the new standard insult to organizations that need to innovate, but don’t. Established institutions like higher education are increasingly targeted as bloated, inefficient, and “thoroughly corrupt”. Harsh. Ivory Tower: Crumbling from Within quotes a presentation by Jeff Sandefer (who is highly biased as the founder of an business school to counter [...]

e-portfolios

Of all the tools available for educators, e-portfolios have a pleasant mix of “great potential” and “very low adoption”. When combined with Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR), eportfolios can bridge the gap between formal learning and informal learning. The Wired Campus is more effusive: “If we truly want to advance from a focus on [...]

CCK08 Wrapup Recording

This afternoon, we held a wrapup conversation for CCK08…the recording is now available. We discussed a wide-range of topics, including lurking in online environments, lessons learned from CCK08, Stephen’s serialized course feeds, what we’ll do differently for the September ’09 offering of the course, etc. At about the 40 minute mark, we had an interesting [...]

On the value of assessment…

Marks are really rather arbitrary. I have this fear, when marking, that I’ll double mark a paper/project submitted by a student (i.e. I’ll mark it once with comments and a grade…and then, because I forgot I had already marked it, do the same again)…and provide completely different comments or even a different grade. A prof [...]

Education needs to be pulled into the 21st century

Short rant. Articles like – Education needs to be pulled into the 21st century – cause many educators to smile and nod in agreement. The report broadly splashes all the latest and coolest terms that cause sensible educators to viciously agree: “In an increasingly complex and competitive world, teachers must understand technology and connect coursework [...]

I’m sure I’m doing it wrong

Unconventional Marketing

Open, Connected, Social

The Form of Informal