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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...

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"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...

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Gnawing 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...

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Rhizomatic 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...

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More 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...

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De-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...

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Digital 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...

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Still 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...

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A 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...

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Unwritten 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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