The Incompleteness of Connectivism

Stephen has written a terrific post on connectivism as a learning theory. This is one of the briefest – and consequently, best – statements I’ve read on the subject. Let me begin by saying that I’m a fan of connectivism. Personally, I’m inclined to be persuaded by the connectivist account as Stephen, George, and others … Read more

Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor

Back in December Michael Feldstein wrote a terrific post about Pearson’s new initiative around “efficacy.” There has been a great thread of comments attached to his (as always) excellent piece of writing. I’ve been wanting to add my thoughts on the topic for a while. I’m finally getting around to it. The Conversation Can’t Be … Read more

Rewiki Makes Me Remember…

Watching Mike’s screencast of the rewiki prototype lead me down memory lane to a tool we built back in the day called Send2Wiki. Here’s a summary from the extensions page at Mediawiki: Provides a bookmarklet that makes it easy to send web pages to a wiki. Converts web page HTML to wiki format (using html2wiki … Read more