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Category Archives: Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science
Xplana.com: Is This a PLE?
The title of this post is slightly tongue-in-cheek because I have my doubts about whether there is such a thing as PLEs that are distinct from existing software product categories. If there were, then after years of people talking about … Continue reading
Posted in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Educational Pattern Languages, Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science, Higher Education, LMOS, Notable Posts, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!)
Tagged Clayton Christensen, DIY U, Education reform, edunomics, Learning Management, PLE, Textbook, Xplana.com
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Reminder: Abstracts Are Due Soon
For any of you who were thinking about submitting an article for the On the Horizon issue I’m editing on breaking up the monolithic LMS, please remember that abstracts are due by April 1st. (Details are in the original post … Continue reading
Posted in Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science, Higher Education, LMOS
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Teaching Faculty About Wikipedia (and Social Software in General)
I just discovered Jon Udell’s wonderfully archeological screencast about the evolution of a wikipedia page. In eight and a half minutes, he beautifully demonstrates how a community negotiates knowledge construction when nobody is the boss, anybody can edit, and there … Continue reading
Posted in Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science, Instructional Design, Notable Posts, Openness
Tagged Jon-Udell, screencasts, Wikipedia
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The Intractable Problem of Informational Cascades
Stephen Downes’ new column on e-Learn does a great job of showing that solving the informational cascade problem is more challenging than I had presented it to be in my own article on the topic. In fact, his own analysis … Continue reading
Homeland Security, Networks, and Accountability
Social networks guru Valdis Krebs has written an analysis which purports to show that creating a single intelligence czar is less efficient in terms of getting intelligence to the President than leaving the stove pipes but adding connections among them. … Continue reading
