Martin Weller wrote a piece for On the Horizon about a challenge higher education is facing: When learners have been accustomed to very facilitative, usable, personalisable and adaptive tools both for learning and socialising, why will they accept standardised, unintuitive, clumsy and out of date tools in formal education they are paying for? A good …
I was preparing to teach next week’s “Quizzing and Gradebook” workshops on our course managment system, Learn@UW. Being a law geek, I thought a short quiz on civics would be an easy way to show off all of the quiz question types–until I saw this: “Only one-third of Americans can name the three branches of …
“Edupunk” sounds kind of like the kind of term an instructor might come up with to make their job feel that-much-cooler, but recent stories show the “concept of Edupunk has totally caught wind, spreading through the blogosphere like wildfire.” If I am reading the (very little) information correctly, there’s an unresolved problem (beyond capitalist co-optation) …
Edit: Somehow the sync isn’t starting, so I’ll need to figure out what the trouble is and update this post. Any ideas? Edit 2: It would seem using rsync to back up is no longer covered under the terms of service for BlueHost users. I actually haven’t been doing my backups this way for some …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
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