Use of blogs in higher education
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Use of blogs in higher education
Use of blogs in higher education
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Through Downes’, I found this great paper on Exploring the user of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector. Looks like a great paper: This paper explores the potential of blogs as learning spaces for students in the higher education sector. It refers to the nascent literature on…
The Edu-Blogger: ITI: Stephen Downes keynote
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The Edu-Blogger: ITI: Stephen Downes keynote
eLearning live!
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A few years ago, I remember hearing the word eLearning for the first time. I had accepted a job with NRC circa 2001. I knew there was an eLearning team in Moncton. I remember thinking they were lucky because Moncton is a relatively cool city. I vaguely remember meeting Stephen Downes for the first…
The Edu-Blogger: ITI: Stephen Downes keynote
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From the wish-I-was-there Department, here’s a review of Stephen Downes’ keynote at ITI. There are few people that can be called “visionary”. I’ve met very few. Very few can pass my tests over and over because often, you discover they had one idea and the rest is just fluff or posturing.…
Not succeeeding any better
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Not succeeeding any better
Not succeeeding any better
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Here’s a quote from a post by James Robertson: If you make sure that you do exactly what the other guys do, you have made a risk averse decision – you won’t fail any worse than they do, but you also won’t succeed any better.
Marketing will never be the same
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Marketing will never be the same
Marketing will never be the same
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Cringely points out that Apple is slowly making the normal retail and marketing process obselete. This is the end of the RIAA and the big recording industry. Apple in the last year has signed deals with more than 300 independent record labels, most of them not big enough to do much promotion. But…
Chronic lack of time in academia
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Yes, I know, everybody runs out of time. All employees in the world have too much work… But academia is kind of special because you have one of the most complex job description you can imagine. You are a teacher, a researcher, sometimes an engineer, sometimes a manager, sometimes a public…
Chronic lack of time in academia
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Chronic lack of time in academia
PlanetMath a free/better alternative to Mathworld?
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Mathworld is a mathematical encyclopedia on the Web. Up until now, I thought it was the only one. I was a bit annoyed at having to use Mathworld because it is owned by the Mathematica people and so, you never know when they won’t pull a Microsoft on you. Didier (who I wrongly assumed to be from…
Transparent aliminium: at last
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Transparent aliminium: at last
How Google is just plain better
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What is one of the most visited page on all of my sites? It is “Jolie, petite coquine”, the Web page of our cat. The page was originally designed by my wife back when she had a Web site of her own. The page ranks high on Voila for some sex bound keyword searches and people arrive at my cat’s…
Transparent aliminium: at last
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Last night, I got my wife to watch Star Trek IV again with me. I got all excited when I found out that 3M researchers had invented what seems to me to be transparent aliminium. Of course, as everyone knows, transparent aluminium was passed on to us by Scotty, the famous spaceship engineer, when the…
Living with the fear of failure
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Before you start wondering: no I did not fail at anything today. In fact, my life is rather smooth going and while you routinely get bad and good and not so good and not so bad reviews from time to time, all my projects are proceeding forward better than I had a right to expect. But like so many…
If you attend all classes, you pass…
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If you attend all classes, you pass…
If you attend all classes, you pass…
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Two profs allegedly got fired because they refused to grade students based on “effort” instead of results. Not that I think that recognizing effort in the grading is such an evil thing… and maybe the policy was even acceptable… Saying that students attending all lectures will pass the…
Most amazing Cringely article ever…
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Most amazing Cringely article ever…
Most amazing Cringely article ever…
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Cringely published an amazing paper on crime in the USA. Turns out that in 1982, a study was paid-for by the American Department of Justice. Three people were involved: Michael Block, Fred Nold, and Sandy Lerner. Cringely believes their study showed that the current sentencing guidelines would lead…