A debate between Doug Hoffman and James back about testing “schools” during CAST 2011 in Seattle WA.
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Are there other videos from CAST or other conferences? I enjoyed seeing this one. I was giving a talk at the same time in another room and couldn’t make the debate myself.
I have some, not sure how many will make it to the site. BTW this one only took 4 hours to upload.
[...] may be some negative conotations with schools other than the context-driven one. Have a watch of this video for more [...]