EduGeek Journal

I admit: I have grown bored with Google Wave. Oh, I still think it could have potential. My boredom stems not from how it works, but rather from who is not on there. Namely, pretty much anyone that I interact with on a daily basis. Oh, I sent out invites to my wife and some [...]

School and universities are going to go away, students are going to teach themselves, the planets will align, we’ll all sing a happy song, and peace on earth will reign. Or so I’m told. Or maybe a bunch of our so-called “educational leaders” will get finally get some counseling for their childhood conflicts they had [...]

For the few that haven’t heard yet – Blackboard and Desire2Learn have both reached an agreement to stop all legal activities against each other. And that is about all we know about it, because both sides are not revealing any reason or motive for this move. Many are happy to hear this and are proclaiming [...]

Digital Natives are better at multitasking than older generations? Please.  My generation (Gen X) practically perfected multi-tasking.  Let’s take a look back to the 80s for a second: Our multitasking was in the form of listening to a Walkman while sitting in front of the TV and doing homework – none of which were made for multitasking. So you [...]

The university I work for recently hosted a luncheon with Douglas Rushkoff, social media theorist and author of books such as Life, Inc.  If you haven't heard of Rushkoff, he has some pretty good ideas (some that are fully radical in nature) that are all good food for thought. He was asked to comment about [...]

Give me a second while I remove the palm from my forehead.  Okay, here we go again – yet another wanna-be futurist desperate for press is predicting the death of universities.  The Wired Campus has a short, great article on this silliness: Colleges Will Be ‘Torn Apart’ by Internet, Law Professor Predicts They appropriately shred [...]

Like many people, I read the New York Times story about the FaceBook Exodus last week.  I then laughed at how silly it was and moved on.  But then I started seeing this article linked to every where… from many people thinking it actually had a point.   It kind of shocked me how few people [...]

Finally… someone dared to speak out about some of the problems they have with open education.  And not just some old fuddy-duddy outsider that doesn’t get it, but an insider that is well versed in all angles. I’m no fuddy-duddy open education hater myself… but I have felt a little discomfort over several aspects surrounding [...]

The nets are ringing today with the shot heard ’round the LMS: a federal appeals court finally invalidated Blackboard’s silly 1999 patent.  I  have to admit, at one point I had lost hope that sanity would ever prevail in this case.  This is far from over, but at least someone out there in our court [...]

Are historical re-enactments lacking in online learning, or have I just missed all of them so far?  A few things were created in Second Life a while back, but they either flat out disappeared, or were ignored by much of the educational community.  NASA has launched a pretty cool re-enactment of the Apollo 11 Moon [...]