It is high time for instructional technologists to get serious about extending free, high quality educational opportunities to everyone. Literally. This modest manifesto lays out a context, rationale, and initial roadmap from here to there. ...
Disgusted. Disappointed. Deflated. Dangling on demoralized. And, most unfortunately, unsurprised. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Eldred vs. Ashcroft shows that Congress in the pocket of the Content Cartel can not (for the next 20 years, anyway) be regulated by the Supreme Court where matters of copyright term are concerned. Here’s to 20 more years of somehow incenting a dead man to produce creative works by allowing him to control a mouse longer. If you haven’t yet seen the interview with Mickey Mouse in which he discusses the decision, you should check it out. ...
AAGH! Trying to get through the last week of school. Even though I’m not teaching this term, I still have grading to do(?), dissertations to read, etc. As noted below, many big announcements on the work front coming soon. I’ll be blogging again once we actually get into the winter break and things settle down some.
Wrapping up the AECT Blogging Well! Let’s hear it for the wireless internet connection at AECT this year! When I first heard it, I thought it was to good to be true: and of course, it was. They had a cloud of coverage on each floor of the hotel - with each floor running through it’s own dedicated ISDN line! W00t! 120 people sharing 128k connection! Guess what kind of speed I was getting the last few days, once people figured out how to connect? You guessed it. So it is only now, a week later, that I’m posting the “end” of my AECT Log. Hopefully next year (in Anaheim) we’ll get a hotel with high-speed connections in the guest rooms and in the conference area. I would have settled for either this year… But enough complaining! IT was great, I had a blast, and things are moving forward. ...
Blogging along today from the Renaissance Hotel in Dallas - AECT conference headquarters! The lobby is still quite busy; folks are queued up trying to check in, visiting in the comfy chairs, etc. Attended an excellent session by Reigeluth and John Keller (the grad student at Indiana, not the ARCS pioneer) about trying to reach terminological agreement in the field of Instructional Technology. They have a fairly comprehensive list of terms associated with instructional theory (though it was missing anything like affective, intentional, conative, etc.), and initial definitions for each term. Apparently this will be the second chapter of Green Book Three. ...