Fabulous talk by Clay Shirky about where people find the time to work on things like Wikipedia; highly recommended.
About the Author
To learn more about David Wiley, visit http://davidwiley.org/. David also leads the Access to Knowledge Initiative in Brigham Young University's David O. McKay School of Education.
Recent Publications
- Overcoming the Limitations of Learning Objects
- Using Weblogs in Scholarship and Teaching
- The Four R?s of Openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for Open Educational Resources
- Psychologism and American Instructional Technology
- The Open High School of Utah: Openness, Disaggregation, and the Future of Schools
- Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education
- Open Source, Openness, and Higher Education
- Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education
- Open for Learning: The CMS and the Open Learning Network
- Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way
- The Creation and Use of Open Educational Resources in Christian Higher Education
- A Unified Design Framework for Learning Objects and Educational Discourse
Last week I taught my assessment students a little classical test theory and, of course, reliability. I had created a spreadsheet for the students to enter quiz results, and then get a KR-20 coefficient. The point of the exercise was for them to play around with the numbers and find which patters resulted in various levels of reliability.
One of the students asked where I found that “program” (he meant “spreadsheet”). When I told him I had written it he asked, “Do you *ever* get bored?”
That question has been with me for six days now, and I realize, “No. I don’t get board.” As Shirky would put it, I have found ways to spend my cognitive surplus online or in the real world. AND, when all else fails, there are books I haven’t read yet.
(should have proofread before posting, eh? “Patterns,” not “patters,” “bored” not “board.”