Free Education Content and Stratification, RPG Review 21 and Social Life

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Had a slight case of gastroenteritis last night and part of today, and surprisingly I suspect from lactose which is a first for myself. Sensibly took the day off work and finish my major research project for EDU 4441: Tertiary and Adult Education; specifically I have written on the The Provision of Free and Open Source Tertiary Education Content, which basically suggests putting as much content online that can be automated and distributed, and redirect resources to the labour-rich content (guided tuition, research, etc). Was highly inspired by a Wednesday night meeting of the Victorian branch of Australian Science Communicators who were discussing the effect and implementation of MOOCs. All this follows from the LMS discussion that I led a couple of weeks back on stratification which generated an excellent discussion, part of which I've saved for prosperity, especially important given the ridiculous "league leaders" approach that elite institutions have and the interest of the new education minister in quality rather than quantity of graduates.

Last touches of RPG Review issue 21 are being put together; had hopes for an interview with the people behind PCGen, but alas it seems that this will not be the case. As a follow-up to last week's article on The Representation of Computers in Roleplaying Games, this week's offerings include the kin article The Representation of Roleplaying in Computer Games. Like mana from heaven David Staples has provided the absolutely brilliant crossover of systems administration and eldritch horror with Code of Cthulhu. All this follows from an excellent session of Space 1889 on Sunday (leading me to read Guy Boothby's Dr. Nikola's Experiment. Ran Pendragon on Thursday which involved tracking down the demon Voso who has ended up on the Isle of Man (using a modified version of the Paulag Cat scenario from Savage Mountains (a good campaign pack if you can find it). Insofar that I have a social life outside of politics, gaming, education, work & etc., at all I must mention catching up with James Von Sutekh (FB), whom I hadn't seen for at least a decade; excellent conversation and very interested in his rather cutting-edge research into hep C transmission in the prison system. Also, whilst being virtual friends for several years, met uke quite by accident last week; will be visiting for a longer discussion soon.

Comments

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

Strine really IS a different language from English-or am I just too ignorant to understand it?
Your versión is highly intellectualised...
:D

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

'Stine is indeed a very strong dialect, plus, yes I do write like someone who has spent twenty-five years at university. Because I have!

Which part of my post would you like me to translate into human English? :)

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

I doubt that I'd understand the explanation!

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

http://nb9.stumbleupon.netdna-cdn.com/MaGNz6xEw6srHgWlSFDoUg

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

A complex character; he hated anti-intellectualism and bigotry, and was also opposed to democracy.

[pollyanna-n.livejournal.com]

Gastro could well be viral, it's in Adelaide, melbourne and Sydney. Apparently October is the month.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Could be, and if so a very mild virus - I was over it fairly quickly, thank goodness.