Over the weekend I had a conversation with a friend about online learning. It turns out he has taken several online courses over the past few years. He had an interesting statement that I think many in online education need to pay attention to: “I have gotten to where I don’t need to read the [...]
I’m pretty sure that if you care about actual learning, you have run in to the same problem I have: going to check out the latest award-winning course, program, idea, etc and then coming to the inevitable conclusion that it is pretty much junk. Some educational awards and accolades do go to great projects… but [...]
04 May, 2010
Will The Internet Start Looking More Like the World, or the World Like the Internet?Posted by: Matt Crosslin In: Pedagogy|Social Networking
I was pondering future trends last week while watching the evening weather forecast. Forecasting while watching a forecast? Anyways… We were in for a possible round of severe weather that week. The news anchor put up a map of “storm spotters” – a network of people that would call in from their homes and tell [...]
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