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Degreed Beta

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For several months now I’ve been working with a great group of people on Degreed. Today we launched the public beta at the HASTAC/MacArthur grantees meeting (the Mozilla open badges functionality in Degreed is supported by a DML grant). So what does it do? Degreed eliminates the distinction between formal and informal learning by jailbreaking … Read more

Slip Sliding Away: The Open in MOOC

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Looking through Stephen Downes’ list of MOOCs today, I saw that there’s a MOOC using almost exactly the same name as the open online course I began teaching this past winter. Compare my Introduction to Openness in Education from Winter 2012, which will be offered again in Winter 2013 and every winter term for the … Read more

To Would-be Education Reformers

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I really, really want to encourage you to take this suggestion. Reading what you have written all over the internet, and listening to you at public hearings, it appears that you have a crystal clear idea of what should happen in schools to make them places that best support student learning and growth. In all … Read more