Grading has slowed my writing and reading, but I couldn’t help noticing a few posts, the first one from Audrey Watters about The Battle for “Open”. As I had just written about open systems, I was curious to compare her idea of openness with my own.…
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Educational Complexity and Open Systems
The fourth property of complexity that both Taborga and Lawrimore discuss within the context of modern organizations is openness or, as Lawrimore terms it, adaptability. This is, I think, a particularly critical property of complexity and most relevant to my current conversations about education, especially the conversation about MOOCs.…