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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 [...]
Also posted in 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 [...]
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
Brief Introduction to BadgePost Prototype
Also posted in Research, Technology Tagged BadgePost, badges, DML Competition, Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure, Video 5 Comments
Rank Teacher Ranking
There has been a little discussion on an informal email list at my university about the Op-Ed by Bill Gates in the New York Times that argues against public rankings of teachers. It’s a position that in some ways constrains the Gates Foundation’s seeming interest in quantifying teaching performance. It led to questions we have [...]
Badgepost Failures