The Value of a College Degree in the Networked World
Working in San Francisco with the Red Rover programming team, so this will be quick. mycreditunion kristian welch consume Schools used to base their value on ownership of the books and the information. Now many are sharing what they know for free. As a group, schools are beginning to value sharing over hoarding. The old […]
Podcast on Technology and the Future of Higher Education
In a podcast with Paul Miller of Project Xiphos, Kevin talked about technology and the future of higher education. The podcast runs 38 minutes, but if your time is short, here are some key quotes from Kevin I pulled while listening. – Education needs technology to stay relevant – Apathy is oil in the ground […]
What A Lovely Walled Garden It Is
To write this post, I’m currently “hacked” into the wifi system of a small community college on the east coast. For fear of my safety and those involved, I’ve hidden the identity of individuals in the story below. My mission started out simple enough; spend 1 hour online to check my email and catch up […]
The New Quick Filter: Feature Review
We’ve launched a new feature to make the Red Rover directory even more useful! One point of clarification – every school has its own network, so when I’m showing users who are matched, that means I am matching with everyone at the school. If I want to filter by the small groups of Major, Year, […]
Web 2.0 to Take Down Blackboard
In the Chronicle this afternoon there was a choice quote: Weller says new Web tools (such as wikis and video-capture technology) put power in the hands of students, but traditional learning-management systems (such as Moodle and Blackboard) emphasize central control by the learning institutions, so he predicts that “monolithic LMSs will be deserted, digital tumbleweed […]
What’s the Responsibility of the Digital Consumer
Most of the conversations I’ve read about the importance of digital identities (here and here) put the responsibility on the producers of the information to be more aware of what they are posting online. Like teaching students about their digital identity so next time the student will pause to think about what they post online […]
Why Students and Faculty Sometimes Miss Each Other
The current crop of adults grew up in a world of physical identity where behavior was modulated according to where someone was. The audience was clear. One could swear in front of friends – Not at school. The current generation of students grew up in a world largely influenced by digital identity were the reality, […]
Please Stop Buying and Building Walled Gardens For Higher Ed
There was an article a few days ago in the Chronicle with the headline “Colleges Create Facebook-Style Social Networks to Reach Alumni.” The first paragraph claims “hundreds of college alumni associations have begun to offer their own online social networks . . ” To me, this seems like a very sad waste of time and […]
Teaching The Google Effect and Digital Identities
Have you ever Googled yourself? What did you find? What didn’t you find? This morning Will Richardson wrote about several conversations he’s had with principals and administrations regarding if and how they use Google when hiring new employees: “When you have some applicants lined up for a teaching vacancy, do you “Google” them? Seems a […]
Blown Mind
I just watched a Google presentation that seemingly took place in the woods but was streaming live from Scobleizer’s cell phone. I, and 20k other people on Twitter, were invited by Scobleizer to watch the presentation live. While it happened I chatted online with a couple hundred folks about the future of the software codes, Ruby on Rails vs. Python, as seen by Google.
Google wants to host Python based applications for free. This is exciting as hosting is not cheap and we budgeted a pile of cash for hosting Red Rover. The problem is we didn’t use Python to build Red Rover. It was all done on Ruby, so we are crossing our fingers that Google will work with Ruby next.
I’m done watching for now, but it looks like it’s going to go on for a bit more. Everything about the last 10 minutes in front of my lap top is mind blowing.