CogBlogged from ‘December, 2010’

Here is my newest Amazing Story of Sharing of 2010 (not THE newest, because they are happening all the time). Last week I wrote of an unsolicited message from Michael Paskevicius of the University of Cape Town OER Project, eager to share the story of an open resource shared by Matumo Ramafikeng, a teacher at UCT, that had been discovered by editors of a journal in Spain who worked with the creator of the resource to turn it into a journal article. I could try and tell the story, but I asked MIchael if he could possibly get Matumo to record her story as a video. She did, and here it is And so one good share deserves another, so I’ve added Matumo’s story to the collection Excuse the repetition, but I stil find these stories to be ama—– Matumo makes a wonderful statement as a comment to the blog [...]

I’m tired and ought to be resting a throat that is rumbling soreness, but a hearth of nostalgia is welling up reading Mike Caulfied’s memories of his experience if Big Learning Objects Gone South– my title, his is The Coming Golden Age of Open Educational Simulations. Mike talks about his time of golden glory years (dot yum com) of the 2000s when he worked on high end million dollar computer based learning production at Columbia — that got left hanging on the gold vine. Mike cites both the lack of his “black box” simulations being open as well as butting up against David Wiley’s Reusability Paradox- which pitted the inverse relationships of context and reusability. It got me thinking about a favorite project I got to steer in the mid 1990s; it’s not quite the parallel of Mike’s story (heck I think it is in a different quadrant), but there [...]