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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Tag Archives: OpenEd
Open Architecture: Our Course Could be Your Life
With the recently peaked interest in open online learning, the conversation seems to have moved immediately towards the shock and awe of scaling an architecture for 30 thousand to 1 million students. I signed up for a Coursera course more … Continue reading
Opening Up Virginia or, Faith in a System of People
Funny that I should find myself as excited as I’ve been in a long while writing a post about a state-level higher education council committee meeting I attended. Who gets excited about committee work?! Well, today I did. Because I … Continue reading
Open Educational Essence
You would need to scan to the 18 minute mark, or just click link below, or just watch it all! https://video.bccampus.ca/media/ETUG+-+What+is+the+value+of+openness/0_wy0s8ymw/37261#t=18:00 This was a video I did in response to the question “What is the value of openness?” for the … Continue reading
A Communiquè from the University of Utopia
I just found the following email in my inbox: May we offer you this communiqué: Anti-Curricula. A Course of Action http://www.universityofutopia.org/ in which we attempt a brief critique of ‘sharing’ in Higher Education and issue a statement on ‘Common Sense, … Continue reading
UMW Blogs: Traffic over last 9 months
The tale of the tape, 1.6 million page views over the last nine moths, with over 600,000 visitors and 400,000 unique visits. I still don’t know how to parse this data effectively, but I agree with David Wiley that making … Continue reading
Zombies and Pirates: Let’s begin
Gratuitous audio: Download Sell My Soul When I started talking about the Zombies and Pirates course I was thinking along the lines of a syllabus, a series of texts, a schedule, and a unifying theme. In some ways a traditional … Continue reading
Now that’s a fucking program!
Image credit: TheFunkyman’s Photostream “Fuck Your Money Bitch” Man, does the Open Education Conference lineup of presentations ever look good! And while some fragile souls might be find Dave Cormier’s session off-putting, I find it absolutely refreshing. And from what … Continue reading
Vancouver, OpenEd City
Well, because the “Crossing the Chasm” theme for this year’s Open Education Conference was a bit too hippie for my liking (especially the image), I decided to offer up an alternative theme/movie trailer for this event based on Roberto Rossellini’s … Continue reading
“Open is always outward facing”
Last Wednesday I had a discussion with Philipp Schmidt, Ahrash Bissell, and Dave Humphrey for the second seminar of the Mozilla Open Education course. This discussion was designed to focus on four different case studies, but unfortunately Wayne Macintosh and … Continue reading
WordCampEd: Permanent Revolution
Image Credit: WordPress Revolution by Tom Woodward Note: All images not otherwise noted come from Gowtham’s stream from WordCampEd The inaugural WordCampEd in DC has come and gone, and it was a total blast to be a part of this … Continue reading