Monthly Archives: August 2004

Preparing Professors for Online Teaching: How Long Does It Take?

By Michael Feldstein | August 25, 2004

I recently had some conversations with a small university that is starting up a new distance learning program. The university president is convinced that the two-hour intro course provided by eCollege would be enough for professors to get up to speed on designing and teaching online. This sounded pretty far out-of-whack to me, so I [...]

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Common Craft - What Are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs?

By Michael Feldstein |

Via elearningpost, here’s a decent, unbiased, and hype-free comparison of weblogs to discussion boards. Different tools for different tasks.
Right on.

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MemeStreams Update

By Michael Feldstein | August 24, 2004

Tom Cross of MemeStreams contacted me to let me know that an API is in the works (though it may take them a while to get it done due to workload and bandwidth issues). If you have any use cases that might help the MeamStream folks think through their design, you might want to drop [...]

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The Chronicle: 8/13/2004: Professors Seek Compensation for Online Courses

By Michael Feldstein | August 22, 2004

According to this article in the Chronicle, it looks like an increasing number of institutions are putting the screws to their faculty to do more online learning work for less money. The story starts with an anecdote about a county college in California pressuring faculty to use sabbatical time for online course development. It continues [...]

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Is Johnson’s “Clustering Emergence” Really Small-world Network Formation?

By Michael Feldstein | August 20, 2004

I was thinking some more last night about Stephen Johnson’s new position that there are separate types of clustering and adaptive emergence as I was reading Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s book Linked (which I am enjoying immensely, by the way; more on that in a later post). I suddenly had a flash of intuition that what Johnson [...]

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