What you get when Research and Community come together
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 has always been a discipline aimed at making people learn something they don't particularly want to learn. If we can truly provide open access to all the resources necessary for learning, then it…
Read more →[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 summary ) complaining about the lack of clarity about what constitutes a MOOC (and I think this resulted in a more generalized MOOC backlash ). This…
Read more →[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200"] Advertisement for Hermods (distance learning school) in Sweden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Recently, one of my favorite titles of a blog post has been " Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads " - I like when righteous indignation is given a full-throated expression. And that is despite the fact that, at least up…
Read more →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 some of this. Parts of it are based on a draft of a proposal for development project. Why community-based research? There are many…
Read more →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 go together. Sure I've trained others in researching the web, using social networking and bibliographic management with Zotero. And I've advised academics…
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