eclectic, pragmatic, enthusiastic
opencontent We’ve had a functional prototype of the first Educommons “educational content viewer” (strategy object) for a few months; now I’ve “improved the prototype interface”:http://educommons.org/content/electricity/ecv001.swf based on a logo and other design ideas by “Corrine Ellsworth”:http://www.mindfog.com/. The current prototype (designed to teach facts) functions like an automated flashcard system, presenting and quizzing on information in external … Read more
“An Introduction to Open Source Communities”:http://www.blueoxen.org/research/00007/ describes: * What are the demographics of those who participate in these communities? Why do they join, and how long do they stay? How do they interact with each other? * How do open source communities work? What are the patterns of collaboration within successful open source communities? Spotted … Read more
Could it happen? “Could the Media Lab really be in trouble?”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/mitlab.html Lots of interesting information here, especially for a certain Instructional Technology department who just finished getting administrative permissions to run a Board of Regents approved learning technologies research lab… [Pointed out by “Seb”:http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2003/04/10.html#a885]