Over 60,000 in one course. This will change everything! Except for the part about needing the same effective class size in order to support the handful of students that actually pass the course… Nice reorganization of the marketing hype published by Coursera.
So in the end, we have 107 students who got the more personalized attention (doing a project, getting feedback, being part of the Google hangout presentations).
This class had one professor and 3 TA, about a 1 : 27 teacher/student ratio.
That is pretty much the size of a normal section of a class, it is the size of one of our ds106 sections at UMW.
via Owning Your Massive Numbers – CogDogBlog.
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alan risking life and limb for a photo of rusty shit on the high level bridge
Alan gave a great opening keynote at CeLC2010, making the case for [quiet revolution](http://secretrevolution.us) (or at least innovation and change) within existing institutions. Time to turn up the heat…
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brian and alan work on their drawings, amid the energy and movement during the session.
I got an email from Alan last night mentioning that his blog was actually knocked offline by the overzealous actions of spammers. They were hammering his site so hard that his host had to kill the site. He had been running the CogDogBlog on some graciously donated webspace, so it’s understandable that they weren’t thrilled about the load that spammers can add to a server.
Unfortunately, Alan’s got a Day Job™ which is currently in conference management mode (i.e., traveling and busy) so he’ll be trying to get things back up and running in the few spare milliseconds he can eke out in the next little while.
Yet another reason why Google needs to step up and show some serious corporate responsibility in helping to actually solve the spam problem created by Adsense. Come ON, Google, what’s it going to take? How many billions of spamments need to be inflicted on blogs, wikis, and other open web spaces before you’ll act?
I’ve outlined some potential ways to solve the problem, but curiously never heard from Larry or Sergey.
I got an email from Alan last night mentioning that his blog was actually knocked offline by the overzealous actions of spammers. They were hammering his site so hard that his host had to kill the site. He had been running the CogDogBlog on some graciously donated webspace, so it’s understandable that they weren’t thrilled about the load that spammers can add to a server.
Unfortunately, Alan’s got a Day Job™ which is currently in conference management mode (i.e., traveling and busy) so he’ll be trying to get things back up and running in the few spare milliseconds he can eke out in the next little while.
Yet another reason why Google needs to step up and show some serious corporate responsibility in helping to actually solve the spam problem created by Adsense. Come ON, Google, what’s it going to take? How many billions of spamments need to be inflicted on blogs, wikis, and other open web spaces before you’ll act?
I’ve outlined some potential ways to solve the problem, but curiously never heard from Larry or Sergey.
I think everyone that will be “presenting” to a group should have to be familiar with Levine’s Law before they take the podium.
Start with the demo
– Alan Levine, 2006
I tuned into what promised to be an excellent session on flexible, organic, dynamic ePortfolios using social software, only to find myself holding back from screaming “Levine’s law! For the love of God, Levine’s Law!!!” as bullet point after bullet point was dutifully addressed.
The session wasn’t bad, and the back channel discussion in the Elluminate chat room provided some interesting opinions, but a demo (or two) would have brought everyone onto the same page in under a minute, leaving time to discuss implementations, issues, and practical details rather than hashing over bullet points. I would have been much happier to see screenshots (or live demos) of these social-software-driven ePortfolios.
I may be co-presenting a session at Interface 2006, on our ePortfolio project being used by our Faculty of Education, but if the session is accepted, I plan on using exactly 0 bullet points. Probably no PowerPoint either. If I do wind up using a PPT, it will be in the modified-Lessigian style, with no bullets and lots and lots of images to support what I’m saying (rather than just providing a script for me to follow).
Start with the demo. Stay with the demo. Think on your feet. To borrow a quote from D.M. Shaftoe in The Cryptonomicon: “Show some damned adaptability.”
I think everyone that will be “presenting” to a group should have to be familiar with Levine’s Law before they take the podium.
Start with the demo
– Alan Levine, 2006
I tuned into what promised to be an excellent session on flexible, organic, dynamic ePortfolios using social software, only to find myself holding back from screaming “Levine’s law! For the love of God, Levine’s Law!!!” as bullet point after bullet point was dutifully addressed.
The session wasn’t bad, and the back channel discussion in the Elluminate chat room provided some interesting opinions, but a demo (or two) would have brought everyone onto the same page in under a minute, leaving time to discuss implementations, issues, and practical details rather than hashing over bullet points. I would have been much happier to see screenshots (or live demos) of these social-software-driven ePortfolios.
I may be co-presenting a session at Interface 2006, on our ePortfolio project being used by our Faculty of Education, but if the session is accepted, I plan on using exactly 0 bullet points. Probably no PowerPoint either. If I do wind up using a PPT, it will be in the modified-Lessigian style, with no bullets and lots and lots of images to support what I’m saying (rather than just providing a script for me to follow).
Start with the demo. Stay with the demo. Think on your feet. To borrow a quote from D.M. Shaftoe in The Cryptonomicon: “Show some damned adaptability.”