CCReflect

"Can we stop thinking about the civil rights era, or any era, as a saga of a few lionized male leaders, and conceive of it instead as the story of thousands of everyday people going about their unsensational lives until, when necessity calls, they show up, line up, shout out and do without, individually and together, for the good of all, even for a good that they are aware they may never personally experience?"

See comments as well, not all positive.

"This is a mapping chart which describes, briefly, each cluster and each of the critical factors for learning and design. These factors map out the dynamic relationships between emergence and prescription within emergent learning, installations, events, and even emergent curricula .."

Compare this site from Harvard Medical School with recent NPR report, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=250656113

The comments are especially interesting -- strong views expressed but lots of room for scrutinizing the assumptions, evidence, reasoning of the writers.

"Thrun seems to have 'discovered' that open-access, distance-education students struggle to complete," wrote Martin Weller, a professor of educational technology at the Open University, in Britain. "I don't want to sound churlish here, but hey, the OU has known this for 40 years."

What does this say about online learning platforms and courses? (Do they ever come with red, yellow and green lights that administrators see when they sign contracts for $$millions without knowing the educational effects of the online systems?) Note other skeptical views expressed in the comments section.