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Steve Wheeler recognizes that the word 'tribe' "can be a contentious term" but in this series of posts he goes ahead and uses it anyway. He could just as easily have used the terms 'culture' and 'family' and his arguments and evidence could be the same. There is certainly...

I enjoyed this article as it grapples with the question of how to close the discussion of political or controversial topics in a classroom. Two major schools of thought are presented: the idea of deliberative democracy, which aims to use rational debate to reach a...

I'm passing this along because it's interesting to see what Henry Jenkins is up to these days, but not without warning of platitudes and flatitudes in the content overall. The post is a summary of the highlights of the...

This study offers a useful and important counterweight to studies focused on U.S.-based MOOCs. "The most well-known for-profit MOOC providers are used for widening participation," writes Sarah Lambert, "but they are certainly not the whole picture." From the abstract...