traditional “follower counts” are going to be meaningless – instead of “followers” people are going to start talking about “direct followers,” “indirect followers,” and “being listed.” It’s all changing, and I applaud Twitter for being willing to throw the old (flawed) assumptions about follower economics entirely out the window in favor of a new approach.
Resurrecting "Disconnectivism" - 4 views
The Technological Dimension of a Massive Open Online Course: The Case of the CCK08 Course T... - 4 views
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The Technological Dimension of a Massive Open Online Course: The Case of the CCK08 Course Tools
Problematic study of CCK08 -- sample size was way too small, would have been more interesting to examine ways in which instructor choices of tools influenced student tool use -- choices are exclusive, so can't put "confusing" and "overwhelming" at the same time.
EduGeek Journal » Blog Archive » New Vision LMS and Personal Learning Environments - 3 views
Education at the fork in the road - 5 views
Future of learning: LMS or SNS? - 7 views
Informational Networking | Rezzable - 4 views
Sharism: A Mind Revolution - Freesouls - 5 views
Amazing Stories of Openness (Open Ed Conference 2009) - 0 views
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Excellent presentation from the 2009 Open Education Conference by Alan Levine. Contains stories from dozens of educators regarding their Amazing Stories of Openness.
Videos can be viewed natively in the browser or using an additional piece of software known as Cooliris.
CCK09- Power and Authority - 3 views
Why Twitter "Lists" Change Everything - Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness - 0 views
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Going forward, the primary question will be which specific lists you appear on (influence of curator, quality, scarcity) and, secondarily, how many lists you appear on (reach, influence).
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Twitter is doing this thing, and whatever Twitter does in house trumps anything that a third party developer might do, period. So, stuff like WeFollow, etc, your brother’s cool thing he’s making, Twitter directories: they are done, people. Or these external things must at least accept the reality of Lists and what they mean to the ecosystem.
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via @craignewmark via @cheekygeeky from @davetroy
Connectivism - 4 views
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There is learning in the connections. There are connections in the learning. Wow, it seems to work both ways.
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What would learning look like if we developed it from the world view of connections?
academhack » Blog Archive » The University and the Future of Knowledge - 0 views
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My central claim is that the organization of the University is based on a factory/print broadcast, model of knowledge creation and dissemination, and thus is ill prepared (or perhaps cannot make the transition) into the new knowledge landscape.
The Transducer » Blog Archive » Brain Behavior and Behaving like Brains - 2 views
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boundaries are inserted where the brain experiences what Zacks calls “prediction error” — when things break a pattern of repetition and thus signal to the brain a boundary that is used to construct the temporal model for the event — its typical sequence.
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the response of the audience — comprised mainly of educational experts — and of Zacks himself is that one practical lesson from his research is that creators of narrative content, such as film, should make an effort to provide more obvious segmentation in their products. Clearly, if this is how the brain works, we should work this way too.
I think this is a major fallacy that pervades the reception of brain science research. People tend to assume that if the brain works a certain way, then so should we.
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the lesson is to get good at perceiving and creating event boundaries, which requires not pre-segmented media, but the opposite — hard to grasp art, stuff that violates expectations and rewards the perciever with a different perspective. In fact, giving students media with well defined boundaries may cause their capacity to construct boundaries to atrophy, much as caffeine causes our adrenal glands to shrink. (I know, it’s a good reason to stop drinking coffee.)
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