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OER & ILOs

Posted on April 21, 2023 by phb256

At my institution, we have six institutional learning outcomes for general education:  Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Racial and Social Justice Critical Thinking Communication Scientific Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning Information Literacy   each with 2-4 specifications, so it’s really 20 outcomes under 6 … Continue reading →

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OE, OP, & OEREP

Posted on April 19, 2023 by phb256

Much was written on the subject of Open Education in the early 70s. This declined to a trickle by 1980 and has only started to pick up in the past decade. There are a variety of reasons for the drop … Continue reading →

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Open and shut

Posted on April 3, 2023 by phb256

When we talk about open in terms of OER, we usually define it by the 5 Rs. That works well enough, but I think there are nuances of open that are worth considering. I tend to use a door metaphor, … Continue reading →

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Free-for-all

Posted on March 27, 2023 by phb256

The word free came up in a couple links in this week’s COPALI module, and I’d like to think through it a little bit. One is in the Open educational resources competency framework OER from UNESCO: D1.3.1 Identify the “5 … Continue reading →

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That Toddling TDC

Posted on February 20, 2023 by phb256

For today’s Daily Create, I pushed play and got Chicago (That Toddling Town) It has quite a history for a song I never even heard of. There’s even a James Brown version: which sounds entirely different. I also located sheet … Continue reading →

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Walk the Nightmare Alley Blues

Posted on January 15, 2023 by phb256

I watched the 2021 version of Nightmare Alley the other day, and decided it needed the Walk of Life treatment: I think it works, but really only if you know the context. There’s a level of psychological horror here, as … Continue reading →

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Get into the car | We’ll be the passenger

Posted on November 17, 2022 by phb256

I had planned to try to blog these elements together, but instead made this audio mashup. I’m guessing it’s even less comprehensible than if I tried to connect the ideas in text, but on the bright side it has Iggy … Continue reading →

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Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’

Posted on November 10, 2022 by phb256

Who’s trolling who? I was reading more of The Passenger this morning, and on page 195 one of the hallucinatory ‘horts spouted the classic line from Airplane. So you know what I had to do. The face swap doesn’t quite … Continue reading →

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Firefly, can you see me? || Shine on, glowing, brief and brightly

Posted on November 9, 2022 by phb256

I’m not sure where I’m going with any of this. Maybe nowhere. Maybe this is a relevant quote: “To the seasoned traveler a destination is at best a rumor.” (p. 56) Continuing my musings on McCarthy’s latest novel, I’m wondering … Continue reading →

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“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now”

Posted on November 6, 2022 by phb256

I thought of this song when I was reading The Kekulé Problem the other day. In it, McCarthy recalls, I suggested once in conversation at the Santa Fe Institute that language had acted very much like a parasitic invasion and … Continue reading →

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