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Senior Fellow for Open Education

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I’m humbled and very excited to announce that, as of today, I am the Senior Fellow for Open Education at the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies, also known as Digital Promise. I’ll post more detail on exactly what this means later this week. FAQ: No, I’m not leaving BYU; I’ll … Read more

Changing How We Think About Self-Organization

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Long-time readers of this blog will remember that I have a long standing interest in self-organization in informal online learning communities (e.g., the 2002 paper on Online Self-Organizing Social Systems, the 2003 paper OSOSS – Crisis / Response, the 2004 paper Sociability and Scalability in Online Learning Environments, etc.). This is an area which I … Read more

Yes, Virginia, There Is Knowledge Transfer

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Because I have pointed out what I believe to be some limitations of MOOCs, some seem to have leapt to the conclusion that I strongly dislike the idea. Not at all. However, some of the Chronicle discussion seemed to be setting up the format as the salvation of higher education – which clearly MOOCs are … Read more