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An Odd Feeling About Print

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Elaine and I spent some time this weekend looking at pictures taken by a friend who served an LDS mission in Japan (where Elaine and I both served) back in the early 90s. As we carefully passed the photos around, I realized that my feeling about print media has changed subtlety over the years. It … Read more

On Friction and Sharing

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There’s a deeply insightful post on O’Reilly Radar today by Mike Loukides called “The end of social.” It’s primarily a piece about friction, and the social signaling value of acts undertaken when a friction cost is incurred (I like that term – “friction cost” – I think that’s a keeper): To many people, Facebook’s “frictionless” … Read more

Replacing Textbooks with OER

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Congrats to the UMass for their pilot OER program which is saving students over 7x the university’s investment in the very first year. Eight faculty members were awarded a total of 10 grants, $1,000 per course, to adopt a new curricular resource strategy using easily identified digital resources. Under the program, faculty developed a variety … Read more