eclectic, pragmatic, enthusiastic
A student of mine, now DOCTOR Sean Duncan (congrats again!) has posted his excellent dissertation studying reuse of OERs online under a CC-BY license. This was one of the most enjoyable dissertations I have ever chaired. I’ll cover highlights below, but I encourage you to check out the full text of Patterns of Learning Object … Read more
There’s an excellent article over on Wired right now with interesting implications for our field. The End of Theory reads in part: “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories … Read more
When a former PhD student goes on to do absolutely amazing things, your initial instinct can be to try to take some of the credit for their success… đŸ™‚ However, not even I have a big enough ego to think I deserve any nods for Andy Van Schaack‘s amazing new company, LiveScribe. Absolutely insane things … Read more