muraPOI: September 2, 2011

Ok, I seem to be pretty inconsistent in publishing my posts of the week, ahem weekly. So I’m gonna rename this my Posts of Interest, muraPOI, and publish them when I have the chance. :)

• Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course: Stanford’s announcement of a M-SWO-OC (Massively SomeWhatOpen Online Course) has gotten lots of folks in the circles I travel talking. From the blogosphere at large, to the open education community, to folks at MIT I’ve been working with in the Council on Educational Technology. It’s worth reading a post by Michael Atkinsson because it Compar[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][es] MOOCs, MIT’s OpenCourseWare, and Stanford’s Massive AI Course (even if it gets a bit religious about a definition for a MOOC).

  (StartupDigest EdTech, August 19, 2011)

• Handing comments over to Facebook is a double-edged sword: Mathew Ingram writes about the pros and cons of sites using Facebook comments in place of their own. I agree–I’m all for civility and reasoned discussion that a “real name” login like Facebook promotes, I’m clearly crazy (or old-fashioned in the 1990s sense) to think a site’s community norms could encourage this without being as heavy-handed as using something like Facebook comments. Having read any number of hateful (and inflammatory) comments on news websites, I’m all for reigning that obnoxious behavior in. For me, the big deal is that to do so means that “Facebook ultimately owns one of the most important elements of your interaction with your readers.” That just seems even more stupid in the long run than dealing with the repercussions of bad community norms.

  (StartupDigest Social, August 19, 2011)

• Ten Rules for Web Startups: Written by Evan Williams (of Twitter) on November 27, 2005. It’s still relevant 6 years later. I think these “rules” are also relevant to the work I do in OEIT–but that we don’t follow often enough.

  (StartupDigest, August 19, 2011)

• Why I don’t want to start a startup: Daniel Higginbotham provides a perspective from the other side.

  (StartupDigest, August 19, 2011)

• The Common Sense of the Fair-Use Doctrine: Patricia Aufderheide shills for her new book, but it’s a topic relevant to my work in open education and I probably should read the book. (/me tries to figure out when I’ll have time to read a book, if I am challenged to read and annotate sites for these muraPOIs…)

  (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 21, 2011)

• 31 days of Canvas tutorials: Seb Lee-Delisle’s listing of Keith Peters’ tutorials is interesting…David are you doing these? :)

  (O’Reilly’s Radar, Four short links: August 25, 2011)

• Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries at the Wall Street Journal compiled a list of Steve Jobs’ best quotes. (Though you think her editor would have told her to use the correct grammar to use with the possessive with Jobs’ last name.)

  (O’Reilly’s Radar, Four short links: August 25, 2011)

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