February 2012
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Learning online - a startup guide
I just wrote this email to a friend of mine, who is considering to educate himself online. As I have look at this topic for a while, I have created a list with references that might interest him. I think the list is pretty nice, so I share it here as well. For privacy reasons I have omitted some texts.
I think you should consider the Web design course, as it is quite comprehensive, and teaches...
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“…Understanding. Coherence. Sensemaking. Meaning. These elements are prominent in...”
– George Siemens - Connectivism (through Connectiv)
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What people remember - debunking an urban myth
I just came across this quite old (2006! :)) blog post that debunks the idea that people remember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they see, 30% of what they hear, etc.
That information, and similar pronouncements are fraudulent. Moreover, general statements on the effectiveness of learning methods are not credible—-learning results depend on too many variables to enable such...
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“Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals...”
– Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (1976)
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“I get frustrated when people talk about OpenCourseWare or the Khan Academy as...”
– Uncollege Newsletter
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Back to behaviorism? #LAK12
“… The students’ feelings and attitudes, which are hugely important to the educational process, cannot be measured by clicks at all.”
http://libraryanalytics.blogspot.com/2012/02/behaviorism.html
My reply:
Clicks, ok, but fortunately ‘social learners’ do more than clicking: they write, comment, repost, blog, etc. There are many different methods and...
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“The relationship of one course’s content to another’s goes unexplored—there is...”
– The Accidental Learner (Wonderful Brain)
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Sense, Essence, and Existence: Knowledge question... →
s33:
Knowledge: How do you perceive knowledge, is it an object that need to be preserved or process that need to be managed? I perceive that the word ‘knowledge’ has several connotations. To know something can be contingent upon a memory of an experience of having learned something. This kind of…
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“We are teaching our children in a curriculum style that isn’t vastly different...”
– Ben Betts… is stoatly different (BLOG)
January 2012
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MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency →
Meanwhile, it will be fascinating to watch MITx mint a brand-new form of academic currency. What happens when it enters circulation? Will other universities accept it as transfer credit, or employers as proof of skills? How will those credentials affect the fast-growing market for online credits and degrees, much of which is driven by the expensive for-profit sector?
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Innovation and analytics in farming
Very interesting recording from yesterday’s session on data and analytics in agriculture is now available. Chris Perry - a potato farmer - detailed how they use analytics to transform their farming operation, moving to “biomimicry” (following the natural biological process) and reducing the impact of chemicals on farming.
From the Learning Analytics Course 2012...
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“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
December 2011
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Louie vindt het grappig.
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“Design: the marriage of aesthetics and functionality”
– Keith Hampson
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Winners of the Open Badge contest #dmlbadges →
The winners of the Open Badge contest have been announced. Very cool competition to support innovative projects that aim to develop tools and methods for open assessment and recognition of skills through an Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI). The OBI is developed by the Mozilla Foundation (with funds from the MacArthur foundation) in collaboration with P2PU.org (Peer2Peer University). It is a very...
September 2011
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August 2011
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Strategy in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma games
Stumbled upon this on Wikipedia article on game theory.
The iterated prisoner’s dilemma game is fundamental to certain theories of human cooperation and trust. On the assumption that the game can model transactions between two people requiring trust, cooperative behaviour in populations may be modelled by a multi-player, iterated, version of the game. [..]
If the game is played exactly...
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July 2011
5 posts
Fwd: Eindland
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June 2011
6 posts
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Everyone knows the example of people estimating...
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“Praise and reward can be just as serious a block as punishment. Take the Desmond...”
– F. David Peat
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Google Search social features
I just found out that Google adds some social information to my search results. Nice feature.
May 2011
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“At a conference last year Michel Serres, a philosopher, exposed his belief that...”
– Michael Serres (via Quora)
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Marx on alienation and creativity;
Workers are...
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“If men define situations as real, they arereal in their consequences.”
– Thomas (?)
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“To be whole, let yourself break.
To be straight, let yourself bend.
To be...”
– TAO (via TED.com)
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Scenes uit een huwelijk
deze maand 26-29 mei - met Hylco Hennis als Johan!
March 2011
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