- Politics of openness – I love it, but I hate it at the same time. It's not the politics, which are invigorating, but the ideology. Education is liberal. Get over it. – (open_learning opencourse mooc ou )
- “Plagiarism” vs. “ghostwriting” again – – (plagiarism fyc #a&e )
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bookmarks for July 30th, 2012
- [toread] “There’s no fixed course”: Rhizomatic learning communities – – (de complexity pedagogy )
- innovating pedagogy pdf – report from OU IET – (openeducation ou de pedagogy )
- Welcome to the all-you-can-burn buffet | Abject – – (DH )
- The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics – – (DH )
- iSpot | your place to share nature – Open University's crowdsourcing / informal learning site. When flickr goes to university. – (crowdsourcing ou e-learning socialnetworking citizen-science identification informal_learning )
- Mark Bernstein: The iPad is not what you think – – (Ple Ipad )
- The Millennial Muddle: How Stereotyping Students Became an Industry – Student Affairs – The Chronicle of Higher Education – A close and thorough look at three or four ways of analyzing and grouping students. Opens up a general critique of the method and those who base their assumptions and actions on the results. Valuable for FYC.
""There's this expectation that your No. 1 job is to pander to this exotic alien consumer," says Mr. Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. "At that point, you cease being a teacher and you are simply selling yourself to an audience that might not be interested in buying.""
says Mr. Vaidhyanathan. "Generational thinking is just a benign form of bigotry, in which you flatten out diversity. This is debilitating to the job of trying to work with young people."
"Some folks are using this as a template and a cookbook," Mr. Bonner says of Millennials descriptions. "It makes it very difficult to see and understand variations because people who don't fit the recipe may be viewed as outliers. That anesthetizes nuances." – (fyc socialpractices social_learning teaching students_as_customers )
- An absolutely riveting online course: Nine principles for excellence in web-based teaching – V good overview article, mainly because it mentions, if not develops, implications and human requirements for each of the principles. Beneath it all: Excellent DE courses depend on excellent teachers.
This article explores excellence in web-based teaching. Drawing on the views of experts in the field and the perspective of their own years of experience, the authors compiled a list of 9 principles to provide direction in the search for online excellence. The principles include: the online world is a medium unto itself; sense of community and social presence are essential to online excellence; in the online world, content is a verb; great online courses are defined by teaching, not technology. The list is not intended to be an exclusive set of principles or a comprehensive guide to online teaching. Rather it is a collection of important ideas and suggestions for teaching excellence in the online world. – (DE ple vle onlinelearning OU OpenUniversity )