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Comment on The Future of Education Doesn’t Get Announced. It Just Happens. by Matt Crosslin

Matt Crosslin — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:20:10 +0000

That’s true – a lot of people predict that “mobile-only” technologies like Instagram will not have a real web site. They still store the photos on a web site, but someday we might see the web used more as a storage place, while the end user is interacting with apps on a mobile device.

Comment on The Future of Education Doesn’t Get Announced. It Just Happens. by Sunny

Sunny — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:25:50 +0000

Just have a thought about Web3.0….. Today I just heard someone said there will be no Web 3.0 – why? Because there may not have “web” for the next “big” time :).

Comment on Make Your Brain Happy by Learning Something Online by Matt Crosslin

Matt Crosslin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:16:34 +0000

Hey Sunny – great to hear from you! Thanks for reading. I don’t know if you heard, but the CDE actually moved back on campus. No more free parking :)

I agree that there is still a long way between ideal and reality. I have to do the same thing with so many classes. I will give the whole speech on active, engaged learning, and then get a bunch of text back for class “activities”. Hopefully we are getting there soon :)

Comment on Make Your Brain Happy by Learning Something Online by Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:45:51 +0000

Great point, Matt. Can’t agree with you more on this. I’m not a “sit and stare” person either. I guess that’t the fun part — how we can make the learners engaged in the learning content. Unfortunately, my daily work is still a lot of long ppt. Pice over and long captured videos…… I guess there is still long distance between the ideal online learning and the reality….
Really enjoy reading the journals here.

Comment on Blackboard’s New Message: “We Can’t Stop You From Leaving, So We’ll Buy Where Ever You Go. Resistance is Futile.” by Matt Crosslin

Matt Crosslin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:33:50 +0000

Well you know I am just jealous of all that dough :) Don’t know if I have ever heard of any class get over funded… so cool.

Looking at the big picture, I think that a good aggregation space is the first and most important tool to create for the future of learning. Once you have an out-of-the-box solution for this that works well for people, it would be pretty easy to plug a grade book and quiz tool into that. And of course some kind of API or whatever that would connect to a school’s record keeping software (automatically enroll for credit students, send back grades/completion to the school). WordPress already has some plugins that makes this connection happen in some ways. So all the pieces are almost there… so who knows where this will go.

Comment on Blackboard’s New Message: “We Can’t Stop You From Leaving, So We’ll Buy Where Ever You Go. Resistance is Futile.” by Jim

Jim — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 03:47:21 +0000

I have to say, I like the idea of ds106-in-a-box as an good aggregation space, though it won't replace the idea and desperate need of community. That said, it will provide an interesting space of sorts—I would love to see something certain folks can use get picked up.

However, not sure this space will ever meet the need for tests, quizzes, and the like is very hard to imagine in a space like the ds106 architecture. I would just love to see the entire LMS space disaggregated more so we can use the grade book and guiz apps we need, and have fun with the community and learning part.

I think this is the first time anyone has referred to me as Mr. Money Bags ;) I think I want EDUPUNK back too now!

Comment on Is the Problem With Traditional Education the Lecture or the Lecturer? by Doing What Works in the Classroom | TCU eLearning

Doing What Works in the Classroom | TCU eLearning — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:23:41 +0000

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Comment on For the One Millionth Time, This is NOT Online Learning… by Matt Crosslin

Matt Crosslin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:41:57 +0000

Hello Paula – I do teach online through a University (just one course as an adjunct). All of the other contributors work in the online learning field, mostly at universities as course designers or instructors.

Comment on For the One Millionth Time, This is NOT Online Learning… by Paula King

Paula King — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:55:12 +0000

He Matt,

Of course! So, do you teach online? Just discovered the EdugeekJournal and am interested in knowing more about you and your contributors.

Comment on Social Learning Environment Manifesto by LMS, PLE und SLE

LMS, PLE und SLE — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:39:25 +0000

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