by gary575 | May 19, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
This Brain Pickings article on “independent” learning is cast as a review of a new book, “Don’t Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything” by Kio Stark. The article, however raises a number of interesting points beyond the...
by gary575 | May 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Julie Parra published a presentation on Slideshare, the PPT version of which is available for download on a NMSU PBWiki here. The Wiki also contains other related content that may be of interest. The PPT cites numerous of references and resources, not all of which...
by gary575 | May 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
From Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish: Jeffrey Selingo, author of the new book, College (Un)bound, addresses wealth disparity when it comes to college degrees: [College] was always seen as the great leveler in this country, especially after World War II. One of the...
by gary575 | May 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
The attached published paper offers some interesting observations, valid or not, on learning in general and MOOCs in specific. Two that hit me: 1) “…the evidence suggests that there is no reason to believe that MOOCs are any less effective a learning...
by gary575 | May 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Speedtest data for New Mexico is available here. Data for Las Cruces is interesting: 1) LC is #9 in the state for average Download speed (below Farmington and Silver City as well as Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Los Alamos). LC is #5 in upload. 2) LC has the most expensive...
