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 [...]
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 opencontent, opensource, visualization, web2.0, wiki on Feb 17th, 2007
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p>My current understanding is that websites, instead of being “designed” and “coded” as in the days of old, are now becoming more like collections of one or more of the [...]
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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