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Failing Coursera

Every time one of these new "MOOCish" sites pops up I do my best to play around with the tool before being too hypercritical. Last year when AI Class was all the rage I signed up and managed to make it an entire week I think. The problem

The coming 3D printing disruption

This is a patent awarded to Lego for the design of the standard modular brick sets in 1961. It is now expired. This is a printable Lego designed exactly to those same specifications (click to view model on Thingiverse) This is a Lego to Tinkertoy adapter, part of the Free

Where did the O in MOOC go?

Another day, another MOOC fires up its engines and fills my Twitterstream. And Moocmooc is about as meta as it gets: a one week MOOC that will analyze the form itself. And interestingly they're using Instructure Canvas as the delivery platform, which is the LMS that UMW adopted

Kaltura and Media Publishing at UMW

Update: I gave up on Kaltura. Despite the warm and fuzzy outlook that follows I later found the information available for supporting it extremely poor. I wrote about that here if you'd like to read it. When I came to UMW last year there were few options available

DangerCon Maker Meetup in Fredericksburg

This past Saturday I had the opportunity to attend DangerCon, a collaborative meetup of the Fredhack group and NovaLabs in Reston, VA. I reached out to the Fredhack group earlier this past month to start forming connections and get ideas about UMW's own Makerspace that I'm

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