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Written by: Steve Song

Posted in: africa, Fellows Blogs, Halifax, Learning, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Personal, relocation, Steve Song

Cape Town to Lunenburg
Yesterday I touched down with my family in Halifax, Canada, our new home for the next few years.  Well, actually near there, a small town south of Halifax called Lunenburg.  When you have a foot in... Read more – ‘Cape Town to Lunenburg’.

Written by: Philipp Schmidt

Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Learning, Mozilla Webmakers, mozopened, open education, open-gov, opencourseware, opened, p2pu, Philipp Schmidt

Let’s make badges not stink
There is a lot of noise about badges at the moment with opinions ranging from “we don’t need no stinkin’ badges” to “badges will lead to global peace.” I have been... Read more – ‘Let’s make badges not stink’.

Written by: Philipp Schmidt

Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Learning, mozopened, open education, opencourseware, opened, p2pu, Philipp Schmidt

How to know you’re doing something right
Worth checking out Matthew Ladner’s guest post on Jay Greene’s blog in which he argues that we need to create more space within the education system for market forces to bring down cost... Read more – ‘How to know you’re doing something right’.

Written by: Philipp Schmidt

Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Learning, mozopened, open education, opencourseware, opened, p2pu, p2pu-webcraft, Philipp Schmidt

Eureka. It’s a lab – not (just) a platform.
This announcement about Harvard receiving a US$ 40M gift to support teaching and learning innovation made me think more about the platform conversation we’ve been having (here and on the... Read more – ‘Eureka. It’s a lab – not (just) a platform.’.

Written by: Steve Song

Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Innovation, Learning, Steve Song, tinkering

Sympathy for the Tinkerer
Tinkering gets a bad rap and I am making it my personal mission to rehabilitate the term. I keep an eye out for articles about tinkering and it is dismaying to see tinkerers getting the same raw deal... Read more – ‘Sympathy for the Tinkerer’.

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