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- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
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BlogPost Progress Report: peer assessment
Over the last four semesters, beginning in the spring of 2011, I have been using a badge system that allows for peer review and the awarding of badges that can then be shared on the open badge infrastructure. As with many of my experiments with educational technologies, I figured the best way to learn what [...]
Posted in Teaching, Technology Tagged assessment, Badge, Chicago, David Wiley, Education reform, Educational psychology, educational technologies, Evaluation, Evaluation methods, Formative assessment, Grade, HTML, open badge infrastructure, Peer2Peer University, Philipp Schmidt, Rubric, Standards-based education Leave a comment
Buffet Evals
“Leon Rothberg, Ph.D., a 58-year-old professor of English Literature at Ohio State University, was shocked and saddened Monday after receiving a sub-par mid-semester evaluation from freshman student Chad Berner. The circles labeled 4 and 5 on the Scan-Tron form were predominantly filled in, placing Rothberg’s teaching skill in the ‘below average’ to ‘poor’ range.” So [...]
Review: Planned Obsolescence
It is rare that how a book is made is as important as its content. Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi stands on its own as an outstanding action film, yet it is a rare review that does not mention the tiny budget with which it was accomplished. And here it is difficult to resist the urge [...]
Posted in Research Tagged Academic Publishing, author, El Mariachi, Electronic publishing, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Library and information science, media forms, MediaCommons, New York, New York University, New York University Press, NYU Press, online journals, Open access, Peer review, Peer-to-peer, Planned obsolescence, review, Robert Rodriguez, Scholarly Communication, Scientific literature Leave a comment
What does the university offer?
The answer is obvious: courses. But you can get courses anywhere. I’ve written about this before (Dealing Out the Uni), but Jim Groom’s effort to get a new server for his course via Kickstarter has me thinking again. Earlier this week, in the context of discussing what the traditional university provided that crowdsourced and open [...]
Posted in Teaching Tagged Alternative education, badges, diploma, Donna Haraway, Edward Tufte, European Graduate School, faculty, Graduate School, Howard Rheingold, Jacques Derrida, Jim Groom, John Waters, MIT, open, open education, open educational resources, p2pu, Peter Greenaway, Philosophical skepticism, professor, Stanford, transcript, university 1 Comment
Super PACs hurt the economy
There have been any number of criticisms of the Citizens United case and the Super PACs that have emerged as a result: they allow corporations and the rich to shape public debate and they provide no accountability, allowing for influence peddling and potential foreign influence. But I wonder if anyone has looked closely at their [...]
Badgepost Failures