Tag Archives: moocs

What I’m reading 21 Jun 2015 through 24 Jun 2015

• 68% of Statistics Are Meaningless, D2L Edition – Told u so. the LMS has nothing to offer in analytics. Wake up, partner. "I can’t remember the last time I read one of D2L’s announcements without rolling my eyes." – (d2l edcrap )
• Challenging MOOCs – "Rather, I worry that MOOCs will increasingly deliver all studies in a similarly “lite” version, that MOOCs will be unlikely to provide much critical analysis or equip students to develop any, particularly on topics where there are passionate feelings or entrenched opinions." – (moocs )
• Richard Bartle on MUDs and British Snobbery – YouTube – Matt Chat 296 – How ideology – and not necessarily the dominant one – gets laced into design. Dr. Matt Barton, SCSU, interviews Dr. Richard Bartle, co-creator of MUD. The MUD as a place that cancels out accent: On the internet, no one knows you're a northerner, so you're free to become a wizard. – (DH design opensource semiotics )

What I’m reading 20 May 2015 through 22 May 2015

• RiTa Gallery – A set of generative prose and imagetexts written using RiTa, an open source procedural language generator. Two reasons to include here: to show how even good poetry can be hijacked in to formula (Exra bot), to suggest that YoU ToO can lEarn to pROGram, and because the collection includes a generative piss-take of Harry Potter at http://robclouth.com/harrypotter/ – (DH procedural_rhetoric generative_prose generative_poetry RITA Processing )
• Why Technology Will Never Fix Education – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Please, let this realign admins and IT departments pushing online ed to a reality. Please please please. – (de mooc lms online )
• In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification — Wordyard – Critique of Carr's assertion about links as distraction. "Links, like words, need to be used judiciously." First part of three posts on significance of links. Followed in 2015 by his Failed Promise of Deep Links. – (hypertext reading web links fedwiki linking )

What I’m reading 2 May 2015 through 5 May 2015

• The Conference Manifesto – NYTimes.com – Making the pre-conference season rounds in my neighborhood. – (conference rhetoric rhetorical_velocity )
• On Research and Academic Diversity – Well, not really. It's a defense of that mooc meta study released this week, and roundly critiqued by Stephen Downes. Tip: the exchange is more enlightening than the study itself. Maybe that's the meta. – (mooc cmooc research metastudy )
• Printing a wall-sized world map – Because you never know when it will come in handy. – (dh )

on pinboard for July 29th, 2014 through July 30th, 2014

• Tinderbox Tuesday: Agents – – (agents tinderbox tuesday attributes notes prototypes timeline tutorial )
• tinderbox Visualize – – (none)
• BSAG » Tinderbox daybook – – (technology )
• A Tinderbox Reference File – – (none)
• Tinderbox: Email and Twitter from Tinderbox – – (none)
• Tinderbox: A Task Assistant – – (none)
• Taking the Information Plunge With Tinderbox | Mac.AppStorm – – (app applescript business communication reviews finance games graphics hardware internet lifestyle music office os productivity security synchronization typography utilities video web dev roundups iphone photography how-to virtualization news appstories appstorm ask editor competitions interviews live coverage mactastik mactuts+ opinion screencasts sponsors weekly poll hot data information map outline tinderbox )
• Tips on Writing And How They’re Really Just Tips on Life — Hack / Make – – (notetaking writing dh academia2.0 blogging )
• Momiji – How Bookmarking Should Be (For Mac, iPad and iPhone) – – (none)
• What is an Artist’s Book – – (dh book books printing )
• [toread] Chopping down the trunk of education | xED Book – – (moocs oer )
• Op-Ed: Microsoft layoff e-mail typifies inhuman corporate insensitivity – – (rhetoric corporaterhetoric fyc )
• Another Argument Against The “Artist Must Get Paid” Nonsense | TorrentFreak – – (copyright dh )
• Selfie-Love – The Chronicle Review – – (fyc a&e selfies )
• Selfie-Love – The Chronicle Review – brief entry into the matter. is it narcism or a gesture of self-respect? – (fyc a&e selfies )

on pinboard for April 23rd, 2014 through April 24th, 2014

• Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: Education Data and Learning Analytics – Watters essays the politics of data collection and use inside and out of the cms. – (d2l learningenvironments learningoutcomes learninganalytics )
• Downes – Connectivism as Learning Theory – Downes is typically on the mark. – (de connectivism mooc )

on pinboard for March 13th, 2014

• Johnson-Eilola: Polymorphous Perversity and Texts – Index – – (dh digital_literacy digital_literature )
• The MOOC of One – S Downes reclaiming the MOOC with emphasis on PLE. Build this BSU. – (dh connectivism ple mooc cmooc )

bookmarks for December 10th, 2013

• Eco on lists – Eco on lists – (none)
• MOOCs Are Usefully Middlebrow – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education – it's been said before, but this time with an unabashed middle-class stamp on it. "Problems arise only when we think of MOOCs as university courses rather than as learning for the masses.". And don't overlook the mplicit whack at all men corporate as middle-brow, as personified by Gates. – (dh moocs xmooc )

bookmarks for November 16th, 2013 through November 19th, 2013

• New thoughts on Personal Learning Environments – – (ple dh )
• Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course | Fast Company | Business + Innovation – In the Udacity fallout, one mission-man stands alone. G'bye and thanks for nothin'. – (mooc xmooc udacity )

bookmarks for November 9th, 2013

• The Education Apocalypse #opened13 – Audrey's keynote demythologizing the current salvation myths. Why not community instead of markets? only resist. – (DE opened moocs )
• Best Practices for Non-Profits on Twitter | EchoDitto.com – – (en3177 twitter rhetorical_velocity erhetoric )

bookmarks for September 17th, 2013 through September 19th, 2013

• Faculty Governance in the New University | AAUP – – (none)
• MOOC Discussion Forums: barrier to engagement? – Long live distributed discussions. But consider that learning can be silent, too. "but that centralized discussion forums do not scale. For MOOCs to be more effective, we need to see different approaches to student engagement." – (cmooc mooc xmooc de discussions )