Convergence of Abundant Content and Prior Learning Assessment
As I have been reading various blogs and participating on some discussion boards, some ideas about open learning and higher education credentialing have begun to come together. I see the promise in...
View Article"It Doesn’t Take a Whole Day to Recognise Sunshine"
The sky is not falling on to the ivory tower, but opportunities and responsibilities are filling the halls. Weller describes many of these in chapter 2 of his new book. How are you thinking about your...
View ArticleGnawing on the Bone: Recognizing and Accrediting Emergent Learning
I keep returning to to the connection between prior learning assessment methodologies and abundance of content. Abundant content is insufficient in creating the conditions for learning, but it does...
View ArticleRhizomatic Learning
I may be carrying the biological metaphor too far, but I am hoping to find a way to understand. I feel a little inadequate critiquing because I’m not sure I can offer something more useful, but I’ll...
View ArticleMore Dissonance: Reconciling Emergent Learning and Student Learning Outcomes...
I am, in part, responsible for implementing outcomes assessment at my institution and I am increasingly convinced that we in higher education should value and encourage emergent learning, that learning...
View ArticleDe-Googling
I have begun the process of removing Google from my life. While I don’t mind having digital foot print, it seems to be a bit much to have everything I do online aggregated, including the stupid...
View ArticleDigital Identities — Fashion
As I was reading the various bits around Bonnie Stewart’s MOOC post and running down some of her rabbit holes, two songs came to mind: David Bowie’s 1980 Fashion and Madonna’s 1990 Vogue. They make...
View ArticleStill Hope for Me and Open Education
I am now almost a month into my new role as acting dean of the School for Graduate Studies at SUNY Empire State College. I had hoped to slip in quietly after the faculty had gone off for their summer...
View ArticleA Tremor in the Force: Building an Open Education Culture
Open education and open initiatives require an all-encompassing cultural shift for most of higher education. Christopher Mackie’s chapter got my attention with this statement: “Every credible vision...
View ArticleUnwritten History Open Education
I read a post on All MOOCs, All the Time by the unnamed doctoral student asking if we were examining the open education history in a biased way. I guess it depends on the definition of open education,...
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