Walking the Virtuous Middle Way

Stephen writes: “You can help people find their way around a city, or you can tell them where to go – and if you don’t appreciate the difference between those, then you won’t appreciate the difference between what we’re doing and what Wiley wants us to think we’re doing.” I think everyone understands the difference … Read more

The Virtuous Middle Way

I really appreciated Karen’s recent post Trying to grok the lack of structure in peer learning. I’m reading A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. I’m particularly interested in the part on peer learning and learning collectives. This passage struck me: … Read more

On OER – Beyond Definitions

I’ve yet to publish anything from my time spent in the UK as an OLNet Fellow. The following bit of writing is one of the outputs from that period, and is informed significantly by conversations with the brilliant and welcome folks at the OU, as well as past online exchanges with many of you. On … Read more