October 2010
“College freshmen are more likely to make friends with peers they share a dorm room or major with than they are to befriend those from similar racial backgrounds…”
I barely remember my roommate from living in the dorm freshman year. He was as much a stranger to me as the person you routinely run into at the store. I felt trapped living on campus when I wanted to be a few miles away in my own bed....
The Xplana Learning Curve | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
USG replaces CE/Vista about 1 year before PLEs and social learning replace the LMS (2014). If so, then do we even need to bother replacing the LMS?
Understanding User-Agent Strings
Lists the various Windows Platforms. NT 5.1 = XP; NT 6.0 = Vista
The solution to the upcoming fall of higher education is openness of content and sell the services beyond the content. Lower the cost by sharing. Will be interesting to see whether higher education would actually go in this direction.
Instead what I have seen is colleges trying to figure out how much of a premium to charge completely online classes over the normal tuition. The boundaries were...
A friend of mine who I used to work with once remarked (2007-ish) the University System of Georgia does not really work like a system so much as a loose confederation fighting over money. Given I have no access to budgets, I would not know. GeorgiaVIEW works remarkably well given there are only a few people running the system and hoards of people administrating it for their campus. There is a...
Associating minorities with crime is irrational, unjust, and completely normal. - By Shankar Vedantam - Slate Magazine
Found the Educational Technology Trends 2010 quite interesting. Especially the part which predicts yet again (still?) the death of the LMS.
Both learning and learning content are moving away from traditional centripetal models, in which everything happens at set locations and is controlled at the institutional/publisher level (top-down), and moving toward centrifugal models that are...
Educational Technology Trends 2010 « The Xplanation
“Both learning and learning content are moving away from traditional centripetal models, in which everything happens at set locations and is controlled at the institutional/publisher level (top-down), and moving toward centrifugal models that are learner-focused (bottom-up) and in which learning happens wherever a student happens to...
Haunted Page 1
I really enjoyed the Haunted comic authored by my friends Steve(n).
He’s always been fascinated by Halloween: both the movies and holiday. So creepiness is right up his alley. So this makes for perfect October reading. Related posts
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QotD: My Favorite Holiday...
The science of falling in love →
mothernaturenetwork:
How long does it take to fall in love? According to this new study, 1/5 of a second. Have you experienced love at first blink?
Psychology History
Vygotsky is best known for being an educational psychologist with a sociocultural theory. This theory suggests that social interaction leads to continuous step-by-step changes in children’s thought and behavior that can vary greatly from culture to culture(Woolfolk, 1998). Basically Vygotsky’s theory suggests that development depends on interaction with people and...
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What video game have you played the most?
This is easy: Perfect Dark. I would create a bunch of bots to kill in a humans vs bots with just handguns and set the win criterion for the max and go until I won. Played this all through college.
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Given good light, I could spend all day photographing flowers. I don’t even know the names of them, but that is what botany friends do, right? :)
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Some of you may have noticed me posting on Twitter using the #usgre10 hashtag. This was the recommended tag to use when posting about the conference.
In talking to a director at a university in the University System of Georgia, he said something interesting which had been said to my CIO, “More good for the USG will be accomplished here at Rock Eagle in these two days then the rest of the year.”...
News: The Thinking LMS - Inside Higher Ed
“Unlike analog forms of student profiling — such as surveys, which are only as effective as the students’ ability to diagnose their own learning needs — Phoenix’s Learning Genome Project will be designed to infer details about students from how they behave in the online classroom, McQuaig said. If students grasp content more quickly when they...
