"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
I am still buzzing from all the ideas percolating from SLOAN International Conference on Online Learning, but today my buzz was from two totally unrelated (and yet totally related) blog posts from my PLN. At the conference, there were many of us who cautioned people to not fixate on the latest digital tools, because the… Read more Call Me Hammerhand
An interesting second and third day here at the 19th Annual SLOAN Consortium International Conference on Online Learning. The second day started early with an 8am keynote by Daphne Koller of Coursera, entitled “The Online Revolution: Learning without Limits.” Her abstract for this talk made the following points: “We are at the cusp of a… Read more Sloan Online Conference Days Two and Three
The 19th Annual SLOAN Consortium International Conference on Online Learning (did you notice…I said NINETEENTH) kicked off today. Our keynoter this afternoon brought our attention to the fact that SLOAN has been fostering a conversation about online learning for 19 years. With the Year of the MOOC last year notwithstanding, online learning was not discovered… Read more SLOAN Online Conference Day One
Tomorrow, I fly to Orlando for the 2013 SLOAN-C International Conference on Online Learning. With my colleague David McLeod of University of Oklahoma, I will be doing a presentation on “Liberating Students: Harnessing the Power of Open Student-Generated Content.” We will showcase our use of open processes such as WordPress, Protopage, and Google apps to… Read more Off to SLOAN
Harold Jarche had an interesting post today on “Leveraging Visualization” that included his LinkedIn Connections. His map shows lots of nodes amid his distributed connections. It got me thinking about what my map might look like, so I used LinkedIn Labs website to create my own map: What is apparent (to me) is that I… Read more A Piece of My Network
Emeril Lagasse is always suggesting that when cooking you need to “kick it up another notch!” The same could be said about online discussions. After a couple of weeks tied up in faculty search interviews and conferences, our Center for Teaching Excellence study group on Community of Inquiry got back together Thursday, and we had… Read more Kicking Discussions Up A Notch
My colleagues in the VCU Center for Teaching Excellence spent an hour this morning debriefing our experience at the first OpenVA Conference held October 14-15 at University of Mary Washington‘s Stafford Campus. Our Jeff Nugent was on the organizing committee for this conference, with strong input from our colleagues at UMW like Jim Groom and… Read more Group Reflections on OpenVA
This past weekend, I was in my old hometown of Atlanta for the first Teaching Professor Technology Conference. With only 650 people attending, the conference had an intimate feeling to it. This was one of the first conferences I have attended in which I knew very few people, but friends were quickly made…and I added… Read more Integrating Teaching and Technology
FastCompany magazine has a neat video about the “collaborative space that thrives on crazy…” – Google Garage. Think about the implications of this as a “learning space” at a university or college! I am gobsmacked! (…and I love all the Google Glasses that appear in this video) 🙂
A couple of years ago, Laura McLay had a post in her blog entitled “On Vampires and Stochastic Processes.” Nice bit of reflection on the statistical possibilities of vampires. What surprised her was the number of hits her blog had afterwards. It seems a good provocative title can draw in numbers of readers. Soooo…be interesting… Read more Serial Killers