Some Notes on Connectivism and Peer Review
A social network diagram (Wikipedia) I have been looking at social constructivism and the social generation of knowledge over the last week. I am interested in this line of thought because I feel that...
View ArticleeLearning 101: An Open Class for New Online Learners
Humboldt State University (Wikipedia) Our new class is slowly taking shape. The course will be based on our old DE 101 (Distance Ed 101) which in turn was based on HIM 100 (a Health Information...
View ArticleDET/CHE: The Art & Science of Education
Town plan of Imola (Wikipedia) I am at the Directors of Education Technology and California Higher Education conference in San Jose this week (DET/CHE). This is my first time here and I am presenting...
View ArticleDET/CHE: Education Nation: 6 Leading Edges of Innovation
Cover via Amazon From the program: "Milton Chen, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation. San Francisco Bay Area. milton.chen@edutopia.org Education...
View ArticleDET/CHE: What Students Really Want
California State Student Association (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Anthony Gibson, Chief of Staff, California State Student Association, CSU Sacramento James Harrison, Technology Affairs Senator, Santa...
View ArticleDET/CHE: Teaching in the Digital Age
Azusa Pacific University (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Mike Truong, Founding Executive Director, Office of Innovative Teaching and Technology, Azusa Pacific University The demands faculty teaching in...
View ArticleDET/CHE: Cognition, Learning Theory, Backward Design: The importance of...
Hierarchy of Instructional Design (Photo credit: jrhode) Jim Monaghan, AVP Academic Technologies/Associate Professor, Educational Technology, CSUSB Instructional designers take on many roles at...
View ArticleeLearning 101: Presentation from DET/CHE
I went to the DET/CHE conference in November and I had a presentation that I was going to give. What happened at the conference was interesting. After listening to other presentations and listening to...
View ArticleSocial Networks and The Good Way to Do History
Biblioteque Nationale There is a fascinating article by Harvard librarian Robert Darnton in this month's New York Review of Books called "The Good Way to Do History." It is a review of Arlette Farge's...
View Article#Rhizome14: Community as Curriculum
This is my introductory post. I am participating in a MOOC facilitated by Dave Cormier called "Rhizomatic Learning - The Community is the Curriculum." Dave's 2008 article "Rhizomatic Education:...
View ArticleUsing a Blog-Based Environment to Support a Community of Learners
Presentation notes for: "Using a Blog-Based Environment to Support a Community of Learners" Institute for Student Success, Humboldt State University Presenters: Daniel Fiore, Riley Quarles, Claire...
View Article#Rhizo14: "Cheating" as Learning Modality
I have had to address "cheating" in education is a very real way here at Humboldt State. I have instructors who are new to online learning and that is one of the first things they asked - how do we...
View ArticleHumboldt State's Moodle Office is Makes the News!
Humboldt State University (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Our own inimitable Bill Bateman's video tutorials for Moodle 2.5 are featured at the Moodle News Website as were four of his videos for 2.3. Bill is...
View ArticleOpen Textbooks and Student Success
Cable Green (Photo: Jeffrey Beall) The tirelessly brilliant and ubiquitous Cable Green sent out today's announcement from Creative Commons about the U.S. PIRG Education Fund report called, “Fixing the...
View ArticleWhen is a MOOC not a MOOC?
Statue of John Harvard Wikipedia The Comical of Higher Ed has a headline that says "Harvard U. Will Offer Exclusive MOOCs to Alumni." After reading the article, the reader learns that what they are...
View ArticleReports on the Death of the Book are Greatly Exaggerated
William Shakespeare I was at a poetry reading at the library a while back and one of the poets had a poem about how lost in cyberspace everyone is and the implication was that he was seeing the end of...
View ArticleConnectivism, Neuroscience, and Education
I have never been comfortable with proclamations by educators or scientists (and yes, there is a difference) about how the brain works. The logical fallacy goes something like this: "we have isolated...
View ArticleScientific Discovery and the Creative Commons
Tim Spuck's students discuss their search for T Tauri stars with renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson at the American Astronomical Society conference in January 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)...
View ArticleConnectivism - The First 2000 Years
I would like to highly recommend a book I am currently reading to educators interested in Connectivism. It is called Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2000 Thousand Years by Tom Standage,...
View ArticleWhy Connectivism is a Learning Theory
Domains of major fields of physics (Photo credit: Wikipedia) David Wiley recently made a comment on his blog, in response to a very succinct posting by Stephen Downes, that the learning theory...
View ArticleDeath of the Book Redux
Wittgenstein (from Wikipedia) I don't know if this is related to climate change or the polar vortex, but the yearly declaration that the book is dead or dying is early this year. Naomi S. Baron, in...
View ArticleOpen Textbooks at Humboldt State University
The Jolly Giant Commons (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I presented the other day at Humboldt State University's conference "Institute for Student Success." I was really pleased that the organizers seem to...
View ArticleTime Saving Tips for Online Teaching (2014)
A clock made in Revolutionary France, showing the 10-hour metric clock. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We often hear that online learning takes a lot of time for instructors. I have found that it can, but...
View ArticlemLearning Initiatives at Humboldt State University
This just in from Morgan Barker, an instructional designer at Humboldt State: Hello Staff & Faculty, I would like to personally invite you to campus sessions centered around the topic of mobile...
View ArticleTaking the Red Pill and Reclaiming Hosting
This blog has moved to http://geoffcain.com Numerous metaphors seem apt here. I have been toying with the idea that Tim Owens and Jim Groom have been promoting for some time now: A Domain of One's...
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