Comments on: Pedagogy Highlights (and Lowlights) http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2006/pedagogy-highlights-and-lowlights/ Thoughts on Emerging Media and Higher Education Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:17:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: This Digital Life http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2006/pedagogy-highlights-and-lowlights/comment-page-1/#comment-242 This Digital Life Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:19:06 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=52#comment-242 <strong>academhack » Blog Archive » Pedagogy Highlights (and Lowlights)...</strong> academhack has a few updates on important news including learner centered classroom pedagogy, Blackboard's patent claims, and the “corporate sell out of education.Link: academhack » Blog Archive » Pedagogy Highlights (and Lowlights). In a similar ... academhack » Blog Archive » Pedagogy Highlights (and Lowlights)…

academhack has a few updates on important news including learner centered classroom pedagogy, Blackboard’s patent claims, and the “corporate sell out of education.Link: academhack » Blog Archive » Pedagogy Highlights (and Lowlights). In a similar …

]]> By: Michael http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2006/pedagogy-highlights-and-lowlights/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Michael Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:14:05 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=52#comment-241 This latest news is truly disturbing. I've been listening to a few education technology podcasts lately (I'll post a list over on my blog soon) and they've been discussing the use of third party sites, especially wiki-based offerings, to support teachers' in-class activities. Although I can understand to a very limited extent the privacy and security concerns, these do not overshadow the reality that part of the reason faculty are choosing to use third party sites, and in turn, asking their students to contribute to these (e.g., wikipedia) is that everything else out there faculty and students find (much of it freely available) is just so much better. For both commercial and free sites, their focus is on user-friendliness, simplicity, and access. The sites that do these best -- paid or free -- are the ones that flourish. Alternately, closed, content-management sites like BB operate much like Microsoft: They don't have to worry too much about the competition and thus, don't have to truly innovate. Case in point, it takes me 10 seconds to upload and link to a file on my blog. the same task takes about 3 minutes per file on WebCT. It shouldn't be like that. Unfortunately, unless policies change, things won't get any easier. This latest news is truly disturbing. I’ve been listening to a few education technology podcasts lately (I’ll post a list over on my blog soon) and they’ve been discussing the use of third party sites, especially wiki-based offerings, to support teachers’ in-class activities. Although I can understand to a very limited extent the privacy and security concerns, these do not overshadow the reality that part of the reason faculty are choosing to use third party sites, and in turn, asking their students to contribute to these (e.g., wikipedia) is that everything else out there faculty and students find (much of it freely available) is just so much better. For both commercial and free sites, their focus is on user-friendliness, simplicity, and access. The sites that do these best — paid or free — are the ones that flourish. Alternately, closed, content-management sites like BB operate much like Microsoft: They don’t have to worry too much about the competition and thus, don’t have to truly innovate. Case in point, it takes me 10 seconds to upload and link to a file on my blog. the same task takes about 3 minutes per file on WebCT. It shouldn’t be like that. Unfortunately, unless policies change, things won’t get any easier.

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