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dwedaman commented on the post, Immunity to Change Introductory Session, on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

interesting question! . . . this particular method (Immunity to Change) starts with identifying an improvement goal (an area you want to change but are having trouble) . . . you could conceivable set as your […]

dwedaman wrote a new post, The Having of Wonderful Ideas , on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

Eleanor Duckworth’s essay “The Having of Wonderful Ideas” (The Having of Wonderful Ideas and Other Essays, Teacher’s College Press, 1987) proposes a radical way to support learning and intellectual […]

dwedaman wrote a new post, Immunity to Change Introductory Session, on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

Immunity to Change is a self-improvement method used to help you do things you want to do but don’t. It comes from decades of research by Bob Keegan and Lisa Lahey of Harvard, most recently encapsulated in the […]

dwedaman wrote a new post, DH dating service, on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

There’s a DH person or two at every school, kinda isolated, sad.

They need to collaborate with other DH people at other schools. For lots of reasons.

Let’s make a platonic DH dating service. You put your […]

dwedaman wrote a new post, the all-DH major, on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

What if you had a major or a track or a school that was ALL-DH? How would you build that and what courses would be in it and what would people do with the degree during and after?

Let’s imagine it!

The […]

dwedaman wrote a new post, learning about learning, on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

The trend of shifting from teacher-centric to learner-centric education is moving towards making the skill of learning itself part of the point of every class.

Some might but most schools don’t have a course on […]

dwedaman wrote a new post, course communication dump & analysis, on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

I think we’re at the point that we can capture just about all communication in a course. Via email, yes, and via any journals and via and submitted papers (as in Word, etc.). But also (!) by recording things […]

dwedaman wrote a new post, syllabus analysis machine, on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

Greg Crane had this idea to gather all syllabi, encode them, mark them up a bit, and then analyze them as a data set that could show learning “tracks” or assumptions or ways of thinking about learning or […]

dwedaman wrote a new post, imagine a commoditized university, on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

The threat of the Khan Academy is looming over higher ed. Of course this is the idea of wholesale, direct-to-consumer, commodification of learning “chunks,” that the individual might subscribe to at a distance at […]

dwedaman wrote a new post, Learning Organization Academy, on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

NERCOMP is helping sponsor an interesting new professional development opportunity that might appeal to DHers trying to instantiate their work into an academy that doesn’t yet know how important DH is. It’s […]

dwedaman wrote a new post, Discussion of Learning Analytics Project Development Workshop, on the site THATCamp New England 2011 right now

New Media Consortium and the NorthEast Regional Learning Analytics group are organizing a collaborative let’s-think-about-possible-learning-analytics-projects opportunity Halloween week. Teams from 5 organizations […]