To Mooc or Not to Mooc: How Can Online Learning Help to Build the Future of Higher Education? by Sarah Porter My rating: 2 of 5 stars I've gone back and forth deciding whether to give this book 2 stars or 1 star. The book wasn't awful, but it was really not all that great. It is a very high level view of MOOCs, written partly as use-cases, and the audience tends to be university

Part II of the Splinter Cell fan film was released this past week with 20 minutes more of the prequel story. It was an interesting video to watch (and now I'm waiting for Part III which I assume wraps up the story), but some of the dialogue seemed to be a little odd for the character of Sam Fisher and it sounded a little more like a generic action hero. Perhaps we can write it off as this being

Star Trek: TNG: Mirror Broken #5 by Scott Tipton My rating: 5 of 5 stars The six comic arc for this story was quite an interesting "pilot episode" for a Next Generation Mirror Universe crew. Picard starts from the Stargaze and...ummm...earns (?) his way onto commanding the I.S.S. Enterprise. This was an interesting glimpse into the Terran Empire at the time of the Next Generation,

Did Kirk go bald? I honestly don't remember :-) (original archive here)

From last week's gamercat (I think the author is taking a break).  As for me... not so much...full steam ahead for dissertation proposal.  The literature review is half way done. I've completed writing the MOOC part and I am moving onto the Collaboration part.  The MOOC part still needs editing, and it would make any APA aficionado weep, but the core is there.

Last semester I began to play Far Cry 2 on my xbox 360 on my free time (free time, LOL - I suppose that's why it took this long to complete the game :p)  I got the game as part of a far cry pack a few winters ago, and with the pile of 360 games becoming smaller and smaller, this series was next on my list.  Far Cry (the original) wasn't available at the time, and it seems that the stories

Στο λύκειο στην Αμερική υπάρχουν αρκετές εξωσχολικές δραστηριότητες. Συνήθως οι αθλητικές δραστηριότητες (αμερικανικό ποδόσφαιρο, field hockey, hockey, στίβος, κ.α.), η μουσική, διάφορες λέσχες όπως λέσχες όπως άτομα πωρωμένα

Hmmm... wonder if Vash comes back in post-nemesis novels... I wonder if she ever ascends (if the Q are sort of like the ancients in Stargate) (original archive here)

Seems like people are having fun with Trump in a variety of ways.  Here is a comic that puts Trump in a Calvinesque (Calvin & Hobbes, not the other Calvin ;-) ) role.  This would be much more fun if it weren't so serious.  Stable Genius indeed...

Found video from Now This on Facebook.  Along with a rebranding of the Nor'Easter to "Bomb Cyclone" we got some serious flooding. I haven't seen this type of flooding in the area in the years I've lived here.