http://youtu.be/wgNrVnjvjKo Yesterday, in From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education, NPR highlighted the free-online class offerings of Coursera. If the purpose of Coursera was solely "to bring more classes from elite universities to students around the world for free online," then an ESN Facebook wall recommendation to check-out Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World (and other offerings) would have been plenty. Why? In an idealistic way I agree with Daphne Koller (Stanford), "By … [Read more...] about Free On-line Classes: Fantasy and Science Fiction?
Technology in Higher Ed
Poll on Twitter Studies
How public are you about your private life in tweets, Facebook, blogs, wikis, email, phone, snail mail, articles, books, presentations, interviews? Very few of us will have our life and vocation examined by Congress, but none-the-less have you considered ... What your wider circle of acquaintances (or even the larger public) know about your daily life? How they came to know what they know? Note: maybe you've chosen to avoid social media, post anonymously, or post under a pseudonym. Whether the … [Read more...] about Poll on Twitter Studies
Anonymity as the Way?
Do you agree with the below quotes from News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments (Richard Perez-Pena. NY Times. 4/11/2010)? “Anonymity is just the way things are done. It's an accepted part of the Internet, but there's no question that people hide behind anonymity to make vile or controversial comments,” said Arianna Huffington, a founder of The Huffington Post. “I feel that this is almost like an education process. As the rules of the road are changing and the Internet is growing up, the trend is away … [Read more...] about Anonymity as the Way?
Query: Social Media, Community Development, Campus Ministry
What tips/ideas do you have for InterVarsity's National Graduate & Faculty Ministry Staff Team Members in Using Social Media Appropriately and Effectively to Grow Communities? Now's your opportunity to give input. I'm leading a seminar on the topic at our April Team Meetings. Here's some material I'm seeking to address: How do we use social media appropriately to build community? Note: How does social media influence our/your definition of community or the various forms of community in which we … [Read more...] about Query: Social Media, Community Development, Campus Ministry
40 Years of Sesame Street as an Educator?
In How We Got to Sesame Street; Art on Screen (The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 16, 2009), Evan R. Goldstein treats us to some of the history of Sesame Street, which celebrated 40 years on November 10. In 1966 a group of friends gathered for a dinner party in Manhattan. As the evening was winding down, one of the guests, Lloyd N. Morrisett, a vice president at the Carnegie Corporation, turned to his host, a television executive named Joan Ganz Cooney, and asked a seemingly innocuous question: Can … [Read more...] about 40 Years of Sesame Street as an Educator?