The Audience Experience
There’s a debate running around a few posts recently on the question of whether to reuse old presentations or offer new ones. Martin Weller writes about it in The New…
Stephen Downes
The People’s Manifesto
Our society exists to provide the means and opportunity for each of us to fulfill our maximum potential and reach our highest aspirations, whatever we perceive them to be, while…
The People’s Manifesto
Our society exists to provide the means and opportunity for each of us to fulfill our maximum potential and reach our highest aspirations, whatever we perceive them to be, while…
Personalizing 21st Century Education
Notes from:Personalizing 21st Century Education: A Framework for Student SuccessDan Domenech, Morton Sherman, John L. BrownJossey-Bass, a Wiley Brand. 2016Personalizing Learning - the vision- reviewing notes at home- in school…
Personalizing 21st Century Education
Notes from:Personalizing 21st Century Education: A Framework for Student SuccessDan Domenech, Morton Sherman, John L. BrownJossey-Bass, a Wiley Brand. 2016Personalizing Learning - the vision- reviewing notes at home- in school…
Types and Tokens
Look at this picture:Did you see a cat? Or did you see my cat Alex? This is a question of some significance, since one of them exists and the other…
Types and Tokens
Look at this picture:Did you see a cat? Or did you see my cat Alex? This is a question of some significance, since one of them exists and the other…
Emergence / Recognition
EmergenceAlan Levine writes, "I am looking for a metaphor or a real example of something maybe complex or just larger/valuable that does not arise solely from adding up many small…
Emergence / Recognition
EmergenceAlan Levine writes, "I am looking for a metaphor or a real example of something maybe complex or just larger/valuable that does not arise solely from adding up many small…
The 2016 Look at the Future of Online Learning
When I wrote The Future of Online Learning in 1998, I took into account three major sets of factors. The first was the obvious basis in technology. Internet and digital…
The 2016 Look at the Future of Online Learning
When I wrote The Future of Online Learning in 1998, I took into account three major sets of factors. The first was the obvious basis in technology. Internet and digital…
Personal Learning MOOC
Instructor: Stephen DownesThis course explores the topic of learning in three ways: first, through an examination of research and development issues related to the topic; second, through interaction with a…
Personal Learning MOOC
Instructor: Stephen DownesThis course explores the topic of learning in three ways: first, through an examination of research and development issues related to the topic; second, through interaction with a…
The Green Solution
Canada's PostMedia, concerned as always about meeting Canada's climate change targets, has published an article in the Toronto Sun arguing that Trudeau's emissions reduction targets are (and I quote) "impossible".…
The Green Solution
Canada's PostMedia, concerned as always about meeting Canada's climate change targets, has published an article in the Toronto Sun arguing that Trudeau's emissions reduction targets are (and I quote) "impossible".…
What I Learned Using Paypal
Doug Belshaw wrote an item this week called 3 things I’ve learned from 200 weeks of sending out an email newsletter which made me smile and think "newbie" to myself.…
What I Learned Using Paypal
Doug Belshaw wrote an item this week called 3 things I’ve learned from 200 weeks of sending out an email newsletter which made me smile and think "newbie" to myself.…
Organizing
Quoted at length from Self-organization of complex, intelligent systems: an action ontology for transdisciplinary integration, Francis Heylighen, Integral Review:A mobilization system would combat this confused and unproductive way of acting…
Organizing
Quoted at length from Self-organization of complex, intelligent systems: an action ontology for transdisciplinary integration, Francis Heylighen, Integral Review:A mobilization system would combat this confused and unproductive way of acting…
The Banality of Death
Late last fall my cat Bart died, then Jay Cross died, and finally 130 people in Paris died, all within a few weeks of each other.Bart's death was not felt…