"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