First Monday - November

November 1, 2001 at 11 am · Filed under Learning/Social Computing

New First Monday is out (wait - it’s not the first Monday of the month yet!). Two articles on education that both look interesting, including an article that looks at MIT’s Open CourseWare Initiative.

Before I became such a user-experience dork, and after I was a biology and music dork, I had a brief career as an education dork. I worked doing instructional design at a startup, and one of the courses I developed (a high school study skills course) is now being used by something like 50,000 kids. There’s obviously a lot of crap out there in the world of computer-mediated education, but I remain certain that it’ll be one of the few things that pushes any real reform into our hobbled little educational system that exists today.

There - now you know a bit more about me. The mythical redesign is progressing slowly, and I hope to begin some production in the next week, so these tidbits will have to tide you over until I get BCF 2.0 released.

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