This is a departure from my normal open content talk, so feel free to pass this post by if you’re not interested in music. Continue reading ‘Transcendental Generative Music’
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
When a former PhD student goes on to do absolutely amazing things, your initial instinct can be to try to take some of the credit for their success… 
However, not even I have a big enough ego to think I deserve any nods for Andy Van Schaack’s amazing new company, LiveScribe. Absolutely insane things are coming from these folks… Be sure to check out the sneak peeks at what their technology can do.
Congratulations, Andy!
No, this isn’t another tired post complaining that we should think of all “consumers” as also being “producers.” Of course we should.
This is a post about a much more subtle problem with the way we’re thinking, that I am increasingly convinced is putting the field of open educational resources (OER) at risk. Continue reading ‘OERs, Producers, Consumers, and Reuse’
Lately I’ve been talking a lot with Bekir Gur (one of my absolutely excellent PhD students) about open education in the context of his dissertation writing. For his dissertation he’s taking a critical view of the field of instructional technology and, in the context of several reviews that range from the dominance of psychologism in the field to the the field’s obsession with objectification (remember the IEEE LOM documents saying people are learning objects?), he is arriving at an interesting conclusion: open education, thoughtfully practiced, is one solution to many of the ills currently plaguing the field of instructional technology. Reading his drafts and talking with him has prompted a few interesting thoughts… Continue reading ‘Thoughts Prompted by Bekir’
