Jared Stein – Education, Technology, Culture, and the Internet

Those of you who know me personally probably know I’m into skateboarding. The following 4 minute video highlights some efforts to bring skateboarding into K-12 physical education, and even using skating as a gateway to learning about physics and construction. Au-then-tic!

• Watch Video: Skateboarding in Education

In my Web Essentials online course I facilitate a discussion on the future of internet technologies. One student focused on how education is, and, as you’ll see here, should be affected:

The internet is a rebel and a bully, threatening to destroy the established system of education that dictates how we learn. Shocked? Well, this is a good thing any way you look at it (more…)

The UVU campus is nearly uninhabited today as we swing into spring break. There’s no spring break at BYU, though, so I took advantage of my lightened workload to make it up to David Wiley‘s IPT 692r – Intro to Open Ed course early, motivated in part by the fact that Russ Carlson, President of Blackboard, would be joining us in a discussion of the future of the learning management system (LMS) with respect to open education (more…)

Ron Hammond sent me this interesting introductory interview with Shai Reshef, founder of University of the People. University of the People is a free, open-access online university that relies on social networking, self-directed learning, and self-forming online communities:

• ABC Interview: Shai Reshef, University of the People

These notes pertain to Brian Lamb‘s keynote on Feb 23, 2009 in Portland, Oregon at the ITC 2009 e-Learning conference. Resource/pres page: http://blogs.ubc.ca/open/open-up/ (more…)

This week I ventured to explore a number of OER projects and conduct a preliminary assessment of the reusability and remixability of the OER hosted in each. Based on earlier (albeit shallow) familiarity with some of these OER initiatives I am able to presume that the structure and technology of a selected sample OER from each is generally representative of all or most OER in the given project (more…)

Over the next ten weeks or so I’ll be looking at the viability and results of different methods and approaches to reusing and remixing OERs for David Wiley’s Intro to Open Ed course.

I would love to see examples of your reuses/remixes so I can highlight them in future posts, and gain new ideas and insights. Please comment, pingback, or e-mail me URLs or details!

I was dizzy with excitement and inspiration from today’s live class meeting of Intro to Open Ed course, and so with lots to mull over I chose to walk back the University Mall in Orem where my car was parked. The weather has begun to warm here in central Utah, and I had music (The National) and a book (Kaku’s Hyperspace) to ease the trip, but half-way there I wimped out and grabbed the next bus (more…)

The bitter cold and a late bus did not prevent me from attending David Wiley’s IPT692R course today. And though the class period was set aside to choosing “classes” for the rest of the course, several discussions bubbled up that were noteworthy (more…)

I’m certainly not the first to suggest that sustainability is an elephantine problem for current and future OER projects. But it’s a problem that may take several perspectives and ideas in order to condense workable solutions (more…)