The Story of Stuff Project has produced some great videos on things we need to change to make our planet a better place and our lives more worth living. This one on the funding of political campaigns by corporations is perhaps a bit specific of the United States, but it’s easy to see how the […]
Category: S/R
Perpetuum Jazzile – Africa
The best thing I’ve seen shared in the last couple of weeks (via Ana Amélia Carvalho’s blog).Not so much for Toto’s song (see here for a pretty funny parody of the lyrics by Steve Almond), but for the extraordinary a cappella performance, especially the introductory part.
Is intrinsic motivation enough?
George Siemens asks, in a thoughtful post, “What’s wrong with (M)OOCs?“, where he expresses 3 main concerns: the high dropout rate (linked with a low level of participation on the part of the majority of participants), the high technical requirements and a (yet) insufficient support that helps people connect to other relevant people. I was […]
The Web is (not) dead…if you believe Scientific American, not Wired, by Mark Fischetti
Another worth read on why we should be aware of the current “assault” on the open web and the efforts to take back control from users and into the hands of communications, media and publishing corporations. Amplify’d from www.scientificamerican.com Too often, we don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. That could happen with the […]
ticEDUCA2010
I confess I am not a big fan of megaconferences. It’s just too much of too many things, which makes it difficult to keep focus and develop meaningful conversations, the thing I most appreciate in these events. That being said, ticEDUCA2010 had plenty of interesting moments and lots of opportunities for learning. The organization was […]
Tim Berners-Lee – Long live the web
I wish more influential people engaged in the fight against the “closing” and “controlling” of the web. Amplify’d from www.scientificamerican.com The Web as we know it, however, is being threatened in different ways. Some of its most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles. Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted […]
When online learning fails – Tony Bates
Tony Bates uses some strong words to comment on a study by Figlio, D., Rush, N. and Yin, L. (2010), but it’s more than justified. How many studies and “expert” opinions on online learning reflect the utmost ignorance of what it is or what it should be? Tony Bates has the authority to say this […]
On self-paced learning | Terry Anderson
In this post, Terry Anderson seems to move away from the “Community if Inquiry” model and from his earlier views on some advantages cohorts offer for formal education and praises the merits of self-paced learning in continuous enrollment settings, adopting a clear connectivist take on online learning.On self-paced learning – Virtual Canuck
PLE_BCN
Home back from Barcelona, where I ran a workshop with Paulo Simões titled “Twitter: the heart of your PLE?” at the PLE Conference 2010, hosted at Citilab in Cornellá. Here’s the presentation we used to support the workshop (we’ve got some nice feedback :-)). Workshop #PLE_BCN – Twitter, The Heart of your #PLE ? on […]
Armando Rocha Trindade Award
Yesterday I received the Armando Rocha Trindade Award for the best Master’s dissertation in the field of distance education for my work “Da Web 2.0 ao e-Learning 2.0: Aprender na Rede”. It felt good, of course, and I’m excited that the prize is the publication by Universidade Aberta. For an online version of the dissertation […]