# undefined > undefined ## Key resources - [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt): Full text of every post and page. - [RSS feed](/rss.xml): Chronological feed, full text of the 10 most recent posts. - [Sitemap](/sitemap-index.xml): All URLs on the site for machine consumption. ## Pages - [About](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/about/) ## Posts (34 total, newest first) - [Three abstracts for OER15: Licensing talking points, Models of OER production, and OERs and Accessibility](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2014/12/01/three-abstracts-for-oer15-licensing-talking-points-models-of-oer-production-and-oers-and-accessibility/): I just submitted three abstracts for the OER15 Conference 14 – 15th April 2015 . It started as one but I realized that there are really three distinct pieces of work that could … - [Announcing Research Zoo - A Habitat for Guerrilla Research](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2014/03/23/announcing-research-zoo-a-habitat-for-guerrilla-research/): Last week, I attended an ELESIG workshop at the OU run by Martin Weller and Tony Hirst . Here are some summaries of what was discussed. However, it struck me that many people wo… - [MOOC-induced educational blindness: Demotivation and confusion as intrinsic properties of schooling](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/11/18/mooc-induced-educational-blindness/): [toc] Why on earth am I writing about MOOCs again? I'm not sure why I have this instinct to defend MOOCs. I am generally the last person to be instinctively bullish on purely te… - [The "Profit Motive" delusion and open education #edstartup #opencontent #edchat](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/10/14/the-profit-motive-delusion-and-open-education/): Note: This is an expanded version of a comment on this post on EdSurge . Other people have also commented here , here and here . [toc] Note 2: When I first started thinking abou… - [I don't want to be an education entrepreneur and neither should you: Exploring the limits of metaphors in #EdStartUp](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/09/16/i-dont-want-to-be-an-education-entrepreneur-and-neither-should-you-exploring-the-limits-of-metaphors-in-edstartup/): [caption id="" align="alignright" width="214"] Title page to Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Warning: This post ended up being a l… - [The Great MOOC Slander? Realities and Narratives of Education and Learning [UPDATED]](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/09/15/the-great-mooc-slander-realities-and-narratives-of-education-and-learning/): education online (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) Note on the title: I was pretty miffed when I started writing this post. And the title was the first thing that came to my mind. B… - [Introducing myself to #EdStartUp - How can we find sustainable business/funding models for open education? [update]](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/27/how-can-we-find-sustainable-business-models-for-open-education/): This is my introduction to the other participants on the #EdStartUp MOOC . My main interest in taking the course is to explore ways of squaring up the demands of a sustainable b… - [Massive open education mindspace: MOOC hows and whys](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/24/massive-open-education-mindspace-mooc-hows-and-whys/): Mind map Inspired by a Tweet and related to my post on What is and what is not a MOOC , I decided to make a little concept map to put a few things in context of each other. Down… - [MOOC motivations and magnitudes: Reflections on the MOOC experience vs the MOOC drop out #moocmooc](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/18/mooc-motivations-and-magnitudes/): This is a long post. What can I say? The MOOC made me do it! When 90% drop-out rate is less than a 10% drop-out rate English: A diagram of the geological time scale (Photo credi… - [How to MOOCify your course and why you should do it: Reasons, skills and tools #moocmooc [update]](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/17/how-to-moocify-your-course/): This post is part of the MOOC MOOC course of work. It outlines my journey (now lasting over a year) towards adopting elements of a MOOC in the Inclusive Technologies for Reading… - [Zero pedagogy: A hyperbolic case for curation and creation over education in the age of the MOOC (#moocmooc)](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/15/zero-pedagogy-a-hyperbolic-case-for-curation-and-creation-over-education/): The crazy argument for Zero pedagogy [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Pedagogy does not matter. It ha… - [Space, The Final Frontier of Online Education or Flipping the School Year #MOOCMOOC](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/14/space-the-final-frontier-of-online-education-or-flipping-the-school-year/): My contribution on the subject of Space to the 2012 MOOC MOOC . - [What is and what is not a MOOC: A picture of family resemblance (working undefinition) #moocmooc](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/14/what-is-and-what-is-not-a-mooc-a-picture-of-family-resemblance-working-undefinition-moocmooc/): [toc] Introduction Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs for short, have been getting a lot of attention recently. There have been several high profile posts (see here for a sum… - [Debating the MOOC Backlash: Notes from A Primitive Screwhead](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/07/29/debating-the-mooc-backlash-notes-from-a-primitive-screwhead/): [caption id="" align="alignright" width="200"] Advertisement for Hermods (distance learning school) in Sweden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Recently, one of my favorite ti… - [Do researchers need Personal Learning Networks? Yes!](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/07/21/do-researchers-need-personal-learning-networks-yes/): Educational theorist and provocateur Stephen Downes made really persuasive video on the difference between a Virtual Learning Environment and a Personal Learning Environment . T… - [Kickstarting research on development: Right on involvement, wrong on outputs](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/04/09/kickstarting-research-on-development-right-on-involvement-wrong-on-outputs/): What it is I've written a lot on this site about the idea of using crowdsourced funding to support research efforts. Here's the first example of that sort of thing that I've com… - [Peer review should be more like Hypothes.is than Hypothes.is should be like peer review!](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/11/01/peer-review-should-be-more-like-hypothes-is-than-hypothes-is-should-be-like-peer-review/): I didn’t even have to watch the whole video about Hypothes.is to know I want to give them some money on Kickstarter. It hits all the right buttons: distributed, open, platform i… - [Towards a system of uncredentials for uneducation](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/04/28/towards-a-system-of-uncredentials-for-uneducation/): I wonder if it's the increased popularity of Vampires and their undead natures that has contributed to the spread of the un- prefix in education. If so, then it's yet another fe… - [Is OpenIDEO a good model for a research community?](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/03/31/is-openideo-a-good-model-for-a-research-community/): It looks like just at about the same time I started this blog , Haiyan Zhang, who blogs at the awesomely named and beautifully designed site: http://blog.failedrobot.com , was p… - [Community research and "knowledge exchange network" for neuroscience](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/03/02/community-research-and-knowledge-exchange-network-for-neuroscience/): The Royal Society just released a second report on Neuroscience in the Brain Waves policy series this one focusing on its relationship with education: Neuroscience: Implications… - [Sharing without community is just piling stuff up](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/02/21/sharing-without-community-is-just-piling-stuff-up/): This is a post about knowledge, community, online repositories, OERs, and the ethnography of the teacher staffroom inspired by a recent experience with JORUM . What was the last… - [Get the Data: Community for Quantitative research](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/02/15/get-the-data-community-for-quantitative-research/): The Get The Data service seems to be getting some traction. There are interesting questions and answers being posted but even more interesting is the quantitative approach to re… - [Toward Community-based Research for Education](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/02/11/towards-community-based-research-for-education/): It is no secret that there is a huge gap between research and practice in education (and many other areas of social practice). Here's a suggestion of a model that might remedy s… - [Anthologize: 5 lessons for microfunding of research and development projects](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/08/04/anthologize-5-lessons-for-microfunding-of-research-and-development-projects-anthologize/): Anthologize is that great new tool designed during the One Week, One Tool project. It seems to have taken the world by storm partly thanks to the #oneweek Twitter frenzy and as … - [JISC Elevator might bring more responsiveness to research funding](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/08/02/jisc-elevator-might-bring-more-responsiveness-to-research-funding/): Finally, JISC is turning some of the innovation and creativity it has poured into technology into the process of funding itself. The idea of JISC Elevator (see http://blog.ousef… - [Harvard leads the way on building institutional academic communities](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/29/harvard-leads-the-way-on-building-institutional-academic-communities/): Recently, Harvard University’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science released OpenScholar built on Drupal using popular modules such as Organic Groups and getting help from t… - [URL Storytelling in the Age of the Semantic Web](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/18/url-storytelling-in-the-age-of-the-semantic-web/): This is a great example of the interface between the machine readable and human readable. It took me a while to figure it out, but I got there eventually. - [How researchers use Web 2.0](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/14/how-researchers-use-web-2-0/): A report just came out from RIN.ac.uk that is relevant to the aims of this website (more details on the project website ). I will tweet out some of the more interesting factoids… - [Friend or FOAF: The Building Blocks of Content and Identity Federation](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/12/friend-or-foaf-the-building-blocks-of-content-and-identity-federation/): I started this whole thought experiment as someone who knows quite a lot about research and quite a lot about technology and the social web. But not all that much about how they… - [Toward a Federated Academic Identity](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/08/federated-academic-identity/): One of the thoughts that kept coming up in my head as I was hearing about all these great digital humanities projects at THATCamp London was: this is amazing but it's yet anothe… - [Notes from session at THATCamp London - 6 July 2010](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/06/notes-from-session-at-thatcamp-london-6-july-2010/): Join in the editing process on http://bit.ly/socialtoolsforresearch - [Twitter Posts from THATCamp 2010 discussion group](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/06/twitter-posts-from-thatcamp-2010-discussion-group/): A summary of Twitter discussions during the session. - [Research Swarm - An Interesting Metaphor](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/05/research-swarm-an-interesting-metaphor/): Came across this presentation that has some interesting metaphors and examples of practice: - [Researchity: An Idea for a Research Community](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/05/researchity/): I have been thinking about this for a while but the below happened as a proposal for THATCamp London . If somebody already had this idea, great. If somebody had a similar idea, …