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Re: Design principles

yish — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 06:43:17 -0000

Are these principles useful? Do you understand the approach, and appreciate its value? would you group them differently? did we miss something?

Re: Feedback

yish — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 08:58:19 -0000

when creating a new activity, it would be helpful if the start time would default to the end time of the previous activity (first activity - default to start of course)

Re: Feedback

yish — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 08:57:03 -0000

for short courses / workshops, which take less then a day, we need to set the start and end hour

Re: MOOCs: Here to stay - panel session at Online Educa Berlin 2015 | Moocs & Co

yish — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:07:56 -0000

thanks!

Re: MOOCs: Here to stay - panel session at Online Educa Berlin 2015 | Moocs & Co

yish — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 05:42:30 -0000

Thanks, @Stephen Downes! I wish I could invite you to join us on the stage. Is there anything you would like me to ask the panelists?

Re: MOOCs: Here to stay - panel session at Online Educa Berlin 2015 | Moocs & Co

yish — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:23:18 -0000

I've seen this diagram before, where is it from?

Re: MOOCs: Here to stay - panel session at Online Educa Berlin 2015 | Moocs & Co

yish — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:23:54 -0000

Where are we going? Can you draw a future timeline for MOOCs?

Re: MOOCs: Here to stay - panel session at Online Educa Berlin 2015 | Moocs & Co

yish — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:18:53 -0000

What is the quality model for MOOCs? Are completions the right measure? What an we learn from Analytics and end-of-course surveys?

Re: MOOCs: Here to stay - panel session at Online Educa Berlin 2015 | Moocs & Co

yish — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:17:51 -0000

Show me the money? What are the sustainable business models for MOOCs? Will MOOCs survive, or will we eventually go back to the variety of online and blended courses we had before the MOOC fad?

Re: MOOCs: Here to stay - panel session at Online Educa Berlin 2015 | Moocs & Co

yish — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:16:18 -0000

What’s the MOOCs ROI? €100k for 300 students applying for certificate (example) = €330 per student. Maybe better to fly them to a seminar?

Re: MOOCs: Here to stay - panel session at Online Educa Berlin 2015 | Moocs & Co

yish — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:15:54 -0000

Do MOOCs deliver? Do we have evidence of learning? What can you learn in 3 hours x 3 weeks? What are the relevant metrics of success?

Re: MOOCs: Here to stay - panel session at Online Educa Berlin 2015 | Moocs & Co

yish — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:15:30 -0000

If MOOCs are the solution, what is the problem? What unmet needs to MOOCs address?

Re: MOOCs: Here to stay - panel session at Online Educa Berlin 2015 | Moocs & Co

yish — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:15:03 -0000

MOOCs - not what we imagined? The MOOC phenomena is seven years old - what have we learnt? What were your biggest mistakes and surprises regarding MOOCs?

Re: Why My MOOC is Not Built on Video

yish — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:57:41 -0000

Very well argued, but for someone who comes from an educational design background, this is hardly any news. However, it does offer a vivid illustration of a phenomena Daina Laurillard and Tony Bates have warned about: how MOOCs risk driving pedagogy backwards. It's not that you can't do meaningful learning in a MOOC, its that too many people are designing MOOCs as edutainment media rather than as educational experiences.

Mike Sharples recently gave talk, where he used data from FutureLearn to show that a MOOC of over 10 minutes will make students leave the MOOC - not just the video. This was the trigger for our "six minute video" design pattern (http://ilde.upf.edu/moocs/v..., from http://www.moocdesign.cde.l....

But, there's ample evidence that passive learning is much less effective than active learning. See for example:
Freeman, S.; Eddy, S. L.; McDonough, M.; Smith, M. K.; Okoroafor, N.; Jordt, H. & Wenderoth, M. P. (2014), 'Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences111 (23) , 8410–8415. http://www.pnas.org/content...

And for a more entertaining perspective:
http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2...

Re: Blabla: La la la

yish — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:24:05 -0000

Goo boo

Re: Here’s How to Unleash the Great Minds of Tomorrow

yish — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 05:41:39 -0000

Radical new?
See: Dewey (1938), Experience And Education
http://www.schoolofeducator...

Re: Preparing a massive open online course on mLearning, balancing old and new thinking

yish — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:56:55 -0000

Great initiative!
Niall (@nwin) is running a mobile learning course, and is posting his stuff online: http://www.lkl.ac.uk/niall/...
I'm teaching a course in two weeks, which will be very design oriented.
So I'm happy to collaborate, and will also direct my students here.
Have you thought about a "meeting place"?
Perhaps you / we can use
http://en.wikiversity.org/w...
or
http://wikieducator.org/Mob...

Re: Preparing a massive open online course on mLearning, balancing old and new thinking

yish — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:53:07 -0000

Hi Inga!

Great idea. Niall is teaching a mobile learning course, and is putting his materials on-line: http://www.lkl.ac.uk/niall/...
I'm starting to teach a course in a couple of weeks, and have been collating resources: http://www.bibsonomy.org/us...

So I'de be happy to collaborate on developing this course, and will direct my students to it. Have you thought of a "meeting place"? We (or you) can use
http://en.wikiversity.org/w...
or
http://wikieducator.org/Mob...

Re: Why I was tempted to discriminate against women

yish — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:34:37 -0000

Its bad for mothers, and its bad for fathers (denying their right to be active parents)

Re: Why I was tempted to discriminate against women

yish — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:33:17 -0000

A three year maternity leave law is sexist. It assumes that a good mum is a stay-at-home mum. It is also very backwards in terms of educational philosophy, assuming the best place for a child is at home.
Maternity rights in general are not the problem. Discriminations is rooted in the asymmetry in parental rights and duties. If the law would provide for a package of rights to be shared by both parents as they see fit, they there would be no grounds for discrimination. Of course, there is a degree of asymmetry dictated by biology, but that only holds for the fist 3-4 weeks after birth. From there on, a dad can provide as good a care as a mum.
As for the overall length, when they reach the age of 1, children already have sufficiently developed social skills to benefit from spending as much time possible in a peer group. Send them to a nice nursery and go to work.

Re: collision detection: Why Gay Talese does his reporting on "laundry board"

yish — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:51:37 -0000

My dad changes an ironed shirt every day. He always has a huge stack of shirt cardboards & the kids love them. Using them for reporting is ingenious: remember the exam scene in MIB?
cardboard allows you to take quick notes on the move.

Paper is a wonderful medium. You can read it in near-dark. It never runs out of battery. The ultimate mobile knowledge technology. The only problem? Replication is slow and expensive. Which is what brought us (planet project) to the idea of paper2.0
http://patternlanguagenetwo...

Re: collision detection: Cows align themselves with magnetic north

yish — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:54:28 -0000

hey - why leave it as an hypothesis? this should be just as easy - or easier - to research on google earth / google maps. And barn orientation is independent of time of day.

Re: collision detection: African drummer helps develop whale-avoidance system

yish — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:46:12 -0000

I wonder what that says about the whales personality? http://web.sls.hw.ac.uk/psy... (http://web.sls.hw.ac.uk/Nor...

Re: collision detection: Teenagers unwittingly use the scientific method to beat video games: My latest Wired News column

yish — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:09:00 -0000

Diane Carr (from the london knowledge lab) has also been doing a lot of work on learning in WoW and SL:

http://playhouse.wordpress....

Re: collision detection: Teenagers unwittingly use the scientific method to beat video games: My latest Wired News column

yish — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:05:39 -0000

Science, it works - even on undead bitches.