My Experience with Social Networking in Online Courses

I was reading a recent article in Innovate about using Facebook in the classroom. I really like this idea because Facebook is popular with students and might make it easier for them to interact with each other in a familiar and meaningful way. Instead of, for example, interacting in a forum where their responses for [...]

Bringing Down Walled Gardens

The Economist has an article in the March 19th issue that discusses how open standards will, as they put it, ‘trump “walled gardens” on the internet’. The article is referring to closed systems on the internet such as Facebook and Second Life, which, much like the earliest subscription-based online services such as AOL, CompuServe, and [...]