Category: Open

MOOCs, Motivation, and the Mass Movement toward Open Education

Curtis Bonk led a session about MOOCs at Learning 2012. His slides are available at TrainingShare (this is the direct link). His presentation must have been one of the most insanely paced sessions I have ever been to. That is a compliment by the way. What is a MOOC? Start here: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc] Curtis' presentation consisted … Continue reading MOOCs, Motivation, and the Mass Movement toward Open Education →

Sensing Place/Placing Sense 2: Accountability Technologies

I am attending Ars Electronica: The Big Picture in Linz, Austria. This is a festival for Art, Technology and Society. If you are interested to know a bit more about the festival, then don't watch this useless trailer: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfRaIbNX5PU] Look at the program instead or check out their newly launched and fabulous archive. One of … Continue reading Sensing Place/Placing Sense 2: Accountability Technologies →

LiquidFeedback: Interactive Democracy and Non-Moderated Proposition Development

A few weeks ago I attended a workshop about LiquidFeedback organised by Netwerk Democratie and Waag Society. LiquidFeedback is a piece of open source (MIT-licensed) software that is used by the Pirate Party in Germany to help them in their decision making process. The tool aims to deliver the following: Pure and representative democracy Non … Continue reading LiquidFeedback: Interactive Democracy and Non-Moderated Proposition Development →