In preparation for the upcoming semester at CUNY, we’re putting together a guide to popular web collaboration tools and identifying ways they might be used in the classroom. In house, we’ll offer blogs for student and classroom use from a WordPress 3.0 multisite instance. On the main website, we’ll have a customized version of BuddyPress [...]

David Eagleman, speaking on “Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization“: I talked a few steps ago about the retention of knowledge and the speed of spreading knowledge but what I’m really talking about here is the creation of knowledge. And I’d like to be able to come up with a better term [...]

The idea: an application that tracks how many words I’m reading a day, the semantic meaning of those words, and the quality and originality of the information I’m absorbing. Combined with a points system for quantifying my activity, I’d be able to track progress on my personal education. In a two-fold manner, this tool would [...]

If I had learned about TEDxNYED earlier than I did, I would’ve totally applied and made my way to New York to attend. Alas, I did not, and get to relive the experience through the posts and videos published online (hooray for the web). Jeff Jarvis ran through a number of things he’s identified as [...]

A lengthy piece in EDUCAUSE Review has many of the same memes that have been floating around, but breaks the reinvention idea this time into two core concepts: collaborative learning and collaborative knowledge production. Collaborative learning redefines the information presentation model from that of broadcast, or one-way transmission from transmitter to receiver, to that of [...]

Clay Shirky hosted an impromptu discussion section this evening on redesigning higher education. He’s put together a wiki page of the best responses, but I feel like I need to record a few too for posterity. The question was simple: If you were going to create a college from scratch, what would you do? AFG85: [...]