So I’m sitting here in the annual Hewlett Foundation Open Education Grantees meeting thinking… what is the future of open education? Where is it going? I think there is only one answer: localization. Continue reading ‘Thoughts from the Hewlett Open Ed Grantees Meeting’
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
Hadn’t mentioned my new book project here yet, mostly because I didn’t want to be accused of talking up vaporware. However, the new learning objects book is well underway and it’s time to get more people involved than my students. The book is written as a series of conversations around a conference room table, and deals with the what I feel are the least understood / most important concepts in learning objects. Also, the book is being written on the OpenContent wiki, and I would encourage anyone interested to jump in and have a go and writing new dialogue - or if you’re seriously committed - writing in a new character. And now, the links:
A word of explanation: The Cast of Characters and How to Use This Book
Sample chapter: That’s Fitting, Somehow: Internal and External Context
Or see the full Table of Contents
Just a note to say that today I turned on some new functionality in oishii!, the tool I use to watch del.icio.us. oishii! displays the most recently added sites which 30 or more users have bookmarked, and now provides links to three similar sites (where similarity is based on tagging behavior in del.icio.us).
oishii! updates every 10 minutes. Check it out!
In Stephen’s notes on Wenger’s ALT-C talk, Etienne makes this absolutely wonderful comment:
It’s a shift, from learning being viewed as a (vertical) relation between a provider and a recipient, to a (horizontal) peer to peer relationship of negotiation of multual relevance.
Best definition of meaningful learning I’ve heard in ages. I’ve often thought that if a teacher can’t “convince” a student they need to learn a certain “required” subject (i.e., if they can’t demonstrate the relevance of material so supposedly important it was put into the core curriculum), they should not be allowed to teach it. Period. Of course, when the curriculum and assessments are set by the federal government, there is no mutual negotiation of anything. “Open wide,” says the omniscient panel of PhDs….
This one was just too funny not to repost. Enjoy this conversation between a Microsoft recruiter and Eric Raymond (Founder and Emeritus President of the Open Source Initiative) in which M$ mistakenly makes Eric a job offer.
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