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

Twitter posts for the week (more…)

Boone Gorges asked a great question about openness that has been itching at my mind ever since I drove out of Vancouver from Open Ed 2009: Is there a tension between individual vs communal voice (i.e. creation)? (more…)

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…)

Today’s session of BYU’s IPT 692R was a collaborative workshop day. The following are merely my contributions to the Google Doc, posted as per Dr. Wiley’s request (more…)

At the start of today’s class session of Dr. David Wiley’s IPT 692R at BYU, Aaron offered thanks for tithe payer contributions to BYU. In response David shoots, “Let’s figure out a way to give the tithe payer a little something back.” (more…)

For David Wiley’s Intro to Open Ed course I had settled on the “artisan” character class, helping to round out the on-campus “guild”. Though the artisan had clear value and balance with the other classes, I was not satisfied with it for a couple of reasons (more…)

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…)

I’ve suggested that “open education” should not be seen as synonymous with various related efforts. Just as there are only approximations at a manifesto for the open education movement, there is no single definition of what efforts constitute or contribute to open education, and open education can not be fairly defined by more granular efforts for the production of open educational resources, opencourseware, etc. That is as much due to conflicting definitions of “open” as it is to organizational motivations (more…)