What you get when Research and Community come together
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 about this post, I had this title in my head but decided it wasn't quite appropriate "You'd have to be an…
Read more →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. But as I was writing, much of the initial anger dissipated but I still like the title. So I…
Read more →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 →[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 →Educational theorist and provocateur Stephen Downes made really persuasive video on the difference between a Virtual Learning Environment and a Personal Learning Environment . This got me thinking about how this difference is relevant to the area of federated, open research. And I think the analogy is pretty much on the money. Researchers, of course…
Read more →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 feather in the cap of the cultural genius that is Joss Whedon. What do the different versions of un- mean? Traditionally the 'uneducated' were…
Read more →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 for Education and Lifelong Learning . While it is a very good overview (I particularly welcome the cautious and sober approach to the results warning against "neuro-myths" - something…
Read more →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 time you learned something interesting or helpful ? I'm willing to bet that it was one of these: 1. Somebody you know or trust told you…
Read more →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.ouseful.info/2010/07/28/project-pitching-jisc-elevator-concept/ ) is modeled on the Mozilla Drumbeat ( http://www.drumbeat.org ) - a Kickstarter-like project but with more varied sources of funding. With Kickstarter people have to back…
Read more →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, lets think about this together. If somebody likes these ideas and wants to do something about it, you're welcome to them! What…
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