Guidelines for online courses

I wrote this draft proposal for developing some criteria for online courses a few years back. Guidelines for Online Courses

New paradigm for the new year

My goal is to help Web 2.0 move away from tiny tweets to slow dialog. May we use our collective intelligence to engage in meaningful dialog about the complex issues we face. May we use collective IQ to: improve our capability to portray accurate pictures of our current paradigm to produce a result that is [...]

Engelbart quote of the week

As a result of issues of scale, it is imperative that human and tool systems must co-evolve.

My Favorite Bumper Sticker: “Honk the Fibonacci series if you like electronic music”

Dorai Thodla’s delightful blog made my day by destracting me from my mundain chores and leading me into the place where magic meets logic: the Fibonacci series. http://dorai.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/knowledge-spiral/ What if instead of measuring the value of our lives we measured the quality of our lives. Part of that measurement would have to be the amount [...]

Don’t believe everything you think

When you believe something all evidence points to the truth of your point of view. To get people to change their beliefs is very difficult. When we watch films we “suspend our disbelief.” We don’t sit in the dark theater watching a thriller, animation, or even romantic comedy saying, “That is not possible.” If the [...]