Category Archives: mozopened

Let’s make badges not stink

Posted on March 7, 2012 by P

There is a lot of noise about badges at the moment with opinions ranging from “we don’t need no stinkin’ badges” to “badges will lead to global peace.” I have been one of the original instigators (PDF) of the badges for learning movement (is it really a movement?), but my favorite session at the recent DML [...] Continue reading →

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How to know you’re doing something right

Posted on February 22, 2012 by P

Worth checking out Matthew Ladner’s guest post on Jay Greene’s blog in which he argues that we need to create more space within the education system for market forces to bring down cost and increase quality. It lists some of the pro-business (e.g. more private & less public, let the market solve our problems) arguments and those [...] Continue reading →

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A question of core values (comment in Times Higher Ed)

Posted on February 7, 2012 by P

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on Apple’s move into the textbook world. It got quite a lot of attention and I wrote a slightly longer version for publication in the Times Higher Ed. I managed to add a little context from other initiatives in the field, including MITx. The full THE [...] Continue reading →

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Eureka. It’s a lab – not (just) a platform.

Posted on October 19, 2011 by P

This announcement about Harvard receiving a US$ 40M gift to support teaching and learning innovation made me think more about the platform conversation we’ve been having (here and on the mailing list). Besides giving an elite university a lot of cash, how can we foster more innovation in learning and teaching in ways that will affect [...] Continue reading →

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DML Ignite – Badges (Funny 4)

Posted on February 7, 2011 by philipp

Erin and I are doing a whole range of things at the upcoming Digital Media and Learning conference. Including, maybe, what they call an ignite talk. Here is our proposal (which I can’t take credit for – besides a short conversation in the back of a NY Cab). I look forward to creating some “vivid [...] Continue reading →

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Sustainability Smarthistory Kickstarter

Posted on January 22, 2011 by philipp

I am at the P2PU NY Camp organized by John Britton, and in one of today’s session Alan Webb led a brainstorm to identify additional ideas for long-term P2PU sustainability (see this page for our notes). And 5 minutes later this email from Beth Harris at Smarthistory (the amazing multi-media web book about art and [...] Continue reading →

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