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Undo It Yourself (U.i.Y.)

By alex | Published: 3/15/2013

There is a TV show called (in the US) Junkyard Wars. The premise of the show is simple enough: two teams meet in a junkyard and are assigned to build something: a trebuchet, a crane, or some other device. I think we can assume that the collection of stuff is, let us say, “semi-random.” I […]

Posted in Policy & Politics, Teaching, Technology | Also tagged Chicago, Chris Hoadley, Computing, Designer, Electronics, Ethan Zuckerman, Facebook, Hacker, hacking, Hip hop, Ingrid Erickson, Lego, media literacies, physical infrastructure, Rafi Santo, Temporary Autonomous Government, twitter | Leave a comment

Do online classes suck?

By alex | Published: 12/8/2012

Before arriving at my current posting, I would have thought the idea that online classes compared poorly to their offline counterparts was one that was slowly and inevitably fading away. But a recent suggestion by a colleague that we might tell incoming freshmen that real students take traditional meatspace courses and those just interested in […]

Posted in Teaching | Also tagged Adaptive learning, adjunct instructor, assessment, Blended learning, brain surgeon, Distance education, E-learning, education, Educational psychology, Educational Technology, FTE, good teacher, Instructional design, instructional designer, Learning, Learning platform, Massive open online course, online classes, online course, online courses, online degree, online education, online fishbowl, online instructors, online program, Online Teaching, Pedagogy, Phoenix, Teacher, University of Phoenix | 7 Comments

The Coming Gaming Machine, 1975-1985

By alex | Published: 7/13/2012

Was going through old backups in the hope of finding some stuff I’ve lost and I ran into this, a draft I was working on around the turn of the millennium. Never went anywhere, and was never published. I was just pressing delete, when I realized it might actually be of interest to someone. It […]

Posted in Research | Also tagged A. Richard Immel, Andrew Pollack, Arcade games, Atari, BASIC, Broderbund, Business Partnership, communication device, computer software, computer technology, Computing, console systems, Creative Computing, Donald A. Thomas, Douglas Carlston, Douglas Englebart, Douglas G. Carlston, eBay, educational products, Electronic Games, Electronics, game designer, Gaming computer, Home computer, home computing, home-based laserdisc systems, Information Society, Jack M. Nilles, Ken Uston, large-scale on-line gaming, large-scale scientific computing, laserdisc technology, Lucasfilm, machinery, Magnavox, Martin Campbell-Kelly, McGraw-Hill, media appliances, Microsoft, MIT, Mitchell C. Lynch, Movie Release, multiplayer on-line role playing, Multiplayer video game, networked computing, New York, New York Times, Nolan Bushnell, Odyssey, Odyssey system, Otto Friedrich, PDA, persistent on-line worlds, Personal computer game, personal computing, Playstation 2, Pong, portable gaming technologies, Prentice-Hall, Ralph Baer, Ralph Lombreglia, RAM, Seattle, Sim City, single gaming author, software industry, Stanford, Steve Russel, telephone distribution, telephone networks, television gaming devices, The Last Starfighter, Toronto Star, Tron, University of California at Irvine, Video game, Video game conversion, Wadsworth Publishing, Wall Street Journal, WarGames, Warner Communications, Washington Post, William Aspray, William Higinbotham, Xerox | 2 Comments

Mind the MOOC?

By alex | Published: 7/6/2012

Siva Vaidhyanathan has a new post up on the Chronicle blog that takes on the hype cycle around MOOCs. Which is a good thing. Experimenting with new ways learning online and off, particularly in higher ed, is more than a worthwhile venture. I think it probably does have a lot to do with the future […]

Posted in Teaching | Also tagged Board of Visitors, Distance education, Education in the United States, Khan Academy, MIT, mooc, online instruction, online open course, president, Siva Vaidhyanathan, SOOC, SUNY, University of Virginia, University of Virginia Rector Helen Dragas, Visitors, wrong tool | 5 Comments

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