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opencontent A question Shawn asked in writing about social objects last week made me wonder… What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)? Imagine if every fifteen weeks Facebook: shut down all the groups you belonged to, deleted all your forum posts, removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had … Read more
You know those “deleted scenes” offered on DVDs? Well, I’ve pulled together a collection of deleted scenes for my chapter 2005 – 2012: The OpenCourseWars in the new book Opening Up Education from MIT Press. Apparently I wrote more material for the chapter than they needed. In the words of Billy Joel’s The Entertainer: Ah, … Read more
Lots more great discussion on the open education accreditation front! Including posts from Steve Carson (Borderlines) about the interface between the various functioning pieces of higher ed, Antonio writing about why we shouldn’t view the homemade certificate as a “sacrilegious contamination between two worlds, formal and informal” education, and Tannis wondering about how a few … Read more