E-Learning 3.0

Keith Hamon

Dec 19, 2018

This works well for me.

Laura Ritchie

Dec 21, 2018

Me too!

1 reply

Roland Legrand

Sep 26, 2018

It seems great. I'm currently mainly experimenting with The Beaker Browser and dat-files, but I'd love to go further and try out the technologies suggested here (IPFS, virtualization). However, I'm a bit concerned about security issues.

Wiebke Wetzel

Oct 9, 2018

Hi,
will you offer the course at a later time again? I am quite sure, I won't have enough time to participate in October/ November, even though I would love to.

Stephen Downes

Oct 9, 2018

If there's enough demand, probably.

Joshua Watson

Dec 21, 2018

This is an expression of the demand for myself and three of my colleagues. Excellent work on this by the way.

Stephen Downes

Dec 21, 2018

Thanks. I've decided to offer a second offering of the course some time in 2019.

3 replies

Geoffrey Gevalt

Sep 18, 2018

This is an enormous topic and gets to the heart of online education -- who decides, and using what criteria, that the student has gained knowledge/expertise/proficiencies? And, of course, what part does the student/participant play in determining her/his own gains from the experience. ... On the high school level, this conundrum is exactly that and is complicated by teacher's unions wishing to protect jobs and by school districts seeking to maintain long-held "standards" and ways of doing things.

Joshua Watson

Sep 23, 2018

I recently asked my district what it would take to pilot a mastery based system in mathematics (which leads toward a credential-based education system). The answer was, of course, that this would be impossible in the current system. The conclusion - when seat time in a course determines funding, changing the formula would mean losing money. Sad.

1 reply

Pete Forsyth

Oct 15, 2018

Wikipedia's working definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus More comprehensive Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making Mansbridge, "Beyond Adversary Democracy": https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo3618381.html

Jenny Mackness

Sep 14, 2018

Simon Blackburn will be speaking about 'truth' on BBC radio 4 next week - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bkh7mj/broadcasts/upcoming - not sure if you can get this, but thought I would mention it.

Mark Corbett Wilson

Sep 15, 2018

I followed the link and found a weeklong series. "Five essays on the timely theme of "Truth" and current challenges to it." I'm in the US and the BBC4 player is working.

1 reply

Pete Forsyth

Oct 15, 2018

Replace: “9” with “8”

Mark Corbett Wilson

Sep 15, 2018

As a self-directed adult learner, I'm interested in the affordances of open heutagogy. http://markcorbettwilson.com/wp/my-college-degree-as-an-open-digital-humanities-project/

Jenny Mackness

Sep 14, 2018

Will this also include philosophy? Have just been reading around edusemiotics and wondered if this is relevant.

Pete Forsyth

Oct 15, 2018

Add: “Approach each topic above as follows:”

Laura Ritchie

Dec 21, 2018

At some point you had spelled out (in a chat) the different types of content and how you intended to pitch them - that would be useful to include- Paraphrasing... it was something like - the videos were accessible, the summaries/intros/typed posts were more probing, and the resources were for those who wanted to take it further and engage more... it would be useful to have that sort of thing here. You said it far more elegantly whenever it was, I can't place it now. (sorry)

Nigel Robertson (Easegill)

Sep 19, 2018

East Canadian noon?

Stephen Downes

Sep 19, 2018

Yes. That's the best time for an international audience.

1 reply

Jim Stauffer

Sep 17, 2018

looks a bit more complicated to install our own instance of gRSShopper on a basic Bluehost or GoDaddy account
https://grsshopper.downes.ca/installation.htm

Stephen Downes

Sep 17, 2018

I know. I've been working to make it as easy as possible. It's much easier on a site like Reclaim Hosting. I will have a look at Bluehost and GoDaddy to see what I can do.

David Wiley

Sep 20, 2018

Or a Docker option?

Stephen Downes

Sep 20, 2018

Working on the Docker option, should be ready before the start

Joshua Watson

Sep 23, 2018

Would the community version of Docker allow one to host their own gRSShopper instance locally? This would allow most participants to use this tool without paying for hosting. https://store.docker.com/search?type=edition&offering=community

4 replies