Author Archives: x28

‘Text’-book ?

Posted on October 17, 2017

What are the most urgent cases where OERs are most desirable? I think it is often graphics, not text.
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The trap of copyright

Posted on October 11, 2017

I liked Wiley’s description of the current copyright situation as a trap. Most authors seem to put up with the trap.
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OpenEdMOOC Test

Posted on October 1, 2017

Testing as recommended on this page: Course  > Week 1: Why Open Matters  > Getting Ready for the Course  > Course Activities Overview

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Small differences

Posted on September 16, 2017

Big improvements of think tools are often achieved through rather small differences, such as the “targeted zooming”, or now the “semantic text view” of iMapping.
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Mental flexors and extensors

Posted on September 7, 2017

In my view, McGilchrist’s “Master” and “Emissary” modes are the mind’s equivalent of what bending and stretching are for the body. So we need to understand the ‘flexors’ and ‘extensors’ of brain operation.
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Tools vs. practice

Posted on August 11, 2017

Jim McGee wrote a great piece on tools and practices. He argues that the ease of getting started with the first 5% is deceptive. I think it is important that we distinguish between “deep thought and collaborative work”. Tools for these two coincide only for roughly 5%.
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Polarization and Push or Pull

Posted on July 11, 2017

Why can’t media be like a conversation? What makes the internet a “polarization factory” of ‘us vs. them’? I think the problem is that is has turned too much towards ‘push’ media.

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Distinctively human?

Posted on June 22, 2017

What will prove as ‘distinctively human’ and will survive the cognitive automation? I think it is the personal, the individual, the subjective, and this convinced me of Downes’s ‘personal learning’.
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Seven habits of…

Posted on June 14, 2017

Seven habits make my workflow satisfying. In particular: pull over push, optimized for browse rather than search, and careless capturing but cultivating later. Continue reading →

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Week 1 of new cMOOC

Posted on January 30, 2017

Why do learners need interactivity? Because watching their peers recognizing helps their own recognizing more than consuming canned resources.
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