Category Archives: Build This, Please

What Is Machine Learning Good For?

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

A few weeks ago, Audrey Watters wrote a great piece on her concerns about robo-grading of essays. (I tend to take a lot of inspiration from the things that annoy Audrey, in part because they usually annoy me too.) Here’s … Continue reading →

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Instructure Steps Up for Open Education

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

Friday evening, I wrote in a blog post: If you are a large for-profit education company—say, an LMS vendor or a textbook company—give $5,000 to the DS106 Kickstarter project. At that level of contribution, in addition to all the benefits of … Continue reading →

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When It Comes to Content, Say “Yes” to Wrappers But “No” to Containers

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

Scott Leslie has a good post up ruminating on the moving target of open textbooks which reminded me that I have long intended to write a follow-up to an exchange that he, I, and Rob Abel had in the comments … Continue reading →

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Four Key Questions for the Apple Education Announcement

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Phil Hill

There is growing buzz online about Apple’s planned media event on January 19th in New York City. Most speculation is focused on Apple distributing textbooks through iTunesU, as described in a New York Times blog. The basis for most speculation … Continue reading →

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The Zone of Proximal Curiosity

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

Gardner Campbell has a great piece at Campus Technology that asks the following question: What if we took another tack, specifying that students should not only remember information but also demonstrate increased curiosity? I have enormous sympathy for this line of inquiry. … Continue reading →

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