Brandon Muramatsu

muraPOI: November 14, 2011

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  • The Best of Startup School: Best of Stanford’s recent startup school, in 23 tweets as collected by Bill Gross.

    (by way of Esther Wojcicki, Google+, October 31, 2011)

  • Syllabus Institute: Not surprisngly, there’s a group focused on course syllabi. I think there can be great value for a university-wide syllabus service. In some ways, OpenCourseWare does this, but not in a way that manages the syllabus information as data. It can also be especially useful for engineering departments because of accreditation requirements.

    (by way of Faculty Focus, Report Uncovers the Hidden Costs of Managing Syllabi, November 3, 2011)

  • The Latest From Betaworks: Findings. A New Way To Share Book Passages And Web Marginalia: Erick Schonfeld writes about Findings, a tool to let you share, via the social media channel of your choosing, interesting passages from books/readings as you come upon them. As I work at OEIT, I find myself more and more interested in Web 2.0-style tools to augment the teaching and learning process.

    (Techcrunch, October 28, 2011)

  • Charted: Android Fragmentation: Robin Wauters provides a chart of OS and hardware. Android might have a much larger installed base than iOS and iPhones, but boy is it confusing what/how you can/can’t upgrade a device to a new version of the OS. In this view, it actually seems crazier than the multitude of PCs and their hardware options. At least many PCs would run new versions of the operating system, typically MS-DOS or Windows. Sheesh.

    (Techcrunch, October 27, 2011)

  • How to hire an idiot: A cautionary tale. And I wonder if we’ve done something like this sometimes…

    (StartupDigest Reading List, October 28, 2011)

  • A History of MIT’s OpenCourseWare & What It Can Do for Higher Education [Infographic]: Lauren Landry comments on an infographic designed by Online College Courses that examines OER/OCW and the rising costs of tuition at universities. The infographic itself is interesting, if not necessarily an accurate comparison of non-course resources in OER/OCW and matriculated students in colleges and universities.

    (Boston Innovation by way of Google Alerts, October 26, 2011)

  • Combating the Facebook Index: Hemi Gandhi has dubbed the “inattention” students exhibit in class, the “Facebook Index”. He argues that:

    “The Facebook phenomenon is part of a much larger knowledge and cultural paradigm shift that Harvard must proactively respond to if it wants the educational experience to remain a central part of students’ lives. Faculty need to realize that they are in constant competition for students’ time and attention and their quest for personally relevant knowledge.”

    Lots of folks recoil at the idea that professors are performers, but I’ve ready elsewhere recently that perhaps more need to rethink that knee-jerk reaction.

    (The Harvard Crimson by way of Google Alerts, October 24, 2011)

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