The good folks at Utah State University have a faculty opening in their Instructional Technology Department. In a typically "open" fashion, David Wiley mentions the opening in his blog. The job description is also online. Based on my experience last fall, you would be joining an awesome group!
Some people believe that open educational resources “fix” many of the problems experienced by those who work with learning objects. Why do you think they would say this? Do you agree? Why or why not? I don’t have a lot of personal history with learning objects, so I am not coming at this answer from…
I don't care if you call it web 2.0 or a banana split, there are some cool Internet based tools out there! I've been having fun with slideshare (see my "Drupal as a PLE" slide show post). It takes a couple of steps to set up a free account that (for now) requires the added…
Rhizomatic, schrmizomatic . . . all kidding aside, I had a fun time chatting with Dave C. yesterday during the Worldbridges Webcastathon – yes, on the Worldbridges network … the home of EdTechTalk.com! Dave has posted some interesting thoughts on his blog that dance around some loosely joined thoughts I've been hearing and reading about…
As was predicted, Google announced it’s entrant to the “coversational AI” party with a tool named Bard. I asked ChatGPT, “What does bard mean?” and this is what I got:
I’m reading The Purpose Economy by Aaron Hurst. His book Powered by Pro Bono from his days at Taproot Foundation was an inspiration during the founding of Designers for Learning. In Purpose Economy (p. 23), Hurst notes three core categories of purpose desired by professionals who applied to volunteer with Taproot: Personal purpose Social purpose Societal purpose…
We frame the work we do at Designers for Learning around service learning. I’ve been working on several conference proposals where I’ve pulled (ok … self-plagiarized) a definition of service-learning from the same tired citations I’ve relied on for years: “Service learning is an educational approach that combines community service, academic coursework, and work-based experience (Bringle…