Tag Archives: Jim Groom

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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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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Rhiz-o-Matic: Scaling the MOOC

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Michael Feldstein

And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin’ a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out? They may think it’s an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said … Continue reading →

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Can Enlightenment Scale?

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Michael Feldstein

I had the pleasure of listening to Jim Groom give a keynote speech at the Open Education conference this morning. I generally find listening to Jim equal parts inspiring and frustrating. Inspiring because he has a direct tap into the … Continue reading →

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Jim Groom Unbound

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Michael Feldstein

There is a lot of good buzz in the edublogosphere about Jim Groom’s newly open course called “Digital Storytelling.” I’m not going to have time to participate this time around, so I really hope that he offers it again. But … Continue reading →

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