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This is a new topic (as of December 2009) which explores the issue of the re-negotiation of authority which will be required as part of the transformation in education which is currently underway.

Cases increasing, campuses closing; the prospect of a far worse pandemic coming this fall. For many higher education institutions, online learning could be the answer.

A recent op-ed by David Brooks, "What Life Asks of Us", offers the opportunity to ask the related question, what does education ask of us?

Press releases today announcing the University of the People, which promises to provide universal access to college studies.

Recently, the question was posed in the "What are you learning on Facebook" group: what is your big "aha?" I'm not sure I've had one big 'aha', but rather a series of small ones -- about immediacy o

Today I read a paper which ends with the authors' stated plan to move their courses to Second Life. I thought, please don't do this! Required SL in online courses: usually a bad idea.

The Social Media Map for Social Media Marketing from Overdrive Interactive graphically depicts one of my recent mantras for online educ

Yesterday, Marcia Conner asked her Facebook friends to "ponder with me the real (vs.

This blog entry starts a new topic category here, which I've labeled "Adventures in Social Networking, 2008-10." Since I've (belatedly relative to many pioneers in this area) started exploring social

A creation of Google, Knols are touted as "authoritative articles," each of which is a "unit of knowledge." Based on the first few dozen or so I've perused, a be