Posted in education, opencontent on Jun 24th, 2008
No quizzes, no exams
I don’t do quizzes anymore, or exams. Most of the assignments are of the kind “interact with these materials, summarize, analyze, and assess”. There are questions, but also simple reductions and “what is the most important”, “turn that into a set of guidelines”, and basic behavior changes (such as writing better, following [...]
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Posted in education, visualization on May 19th, 2007
Posted in education, opencontent, opensource, secondlife, simulation, video, visualization, web2.0, wiki on Apr 15th, 2007
A student asked me some questions about distance education and virtual worlds, and I provided the following basic impressions (light on links, lets just get this posted for now). I think that research into the actual stats and studies would be of more help. Check out AERA and Horizon Report, and other distance ed stuff [...]
Posted in education, entrepreneurship, video on Feb 22nd, 2007
The Barefoot College began in 1972 with the conviction that solutions to rural problems lie within the community.
The College addresses problems of drinking water, girl education, health & sanitation, rural unemployment, income generation, electricity and power, as well as social awareness and the conservation of ecological systems in rural communities.
The College benefits the poorest of [...]
Posted in education on Jan 2nd, 2007
In Sean Silverthorne’s July 17, 2006 HBS Working Knowledge article (http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5445.html), David Yoffie suggests four distinct features of High Tech companies:
Why tech businesses are different In fact, says Yoffie, technology company managers must deal with a number of factors that many other industry executives don’t, including: The tech company’s most valuable assets in [...]
Posted in education on Nov 10th, 2006
As reported in the Inside Higher Ed blog, a recent report on Online Higher Education in the US indicates:
Nearly 3.2 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2005 term, a substantial increase over the 2.3 million reported the previous year. The more than 800,000 additional online students is more than twice [...]
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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