By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Revisiting Vernor Vinge’s “predictions” for 2025
Vernor Vinge, 2015/09/04

Of all the predictions outline here, this is the one that seems most interetsing: "people can send silent messages without talking or (openly) typing. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Welcome Videos For New Students
Ashley Budd, Higher Ed Live, 2015/09/04

This is a selection of some of their favourite welcome videos (I confess I did not survey the field and so cannot comment on whether they are actually the best). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. This Robot Tutor Will Make Personalizing Education Easy
Issie Lapowsk, Wired, 2015/09/04

Wired is still on the Knewton bandwagon. Personalizing a lesson means creating even more work than already time-strapped, under-resourced teachers can handle. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Best of August 2015
Jane Hart, Learning in the Social Workplace, 2015/09/03

I like this format from Jane Hart. She highlights the best of her posts and tweets from the months into a substantial newsletter broken into major topics emerging through the month, in this case, into these four: the need to revamp training, whether we should call people 'learners', the efficacy of self-directed learning, and organizational culture. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How to Think Visually
Rabndy, Cool Infographics, 2015/09/03

In case you haven't seen this before, or are just beginning your career and an education consultant, here's a graphic represention of a couple dozen or so graphical representations of data. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. When the Only Seat Is in Front of a Screen
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 2015/09/02

I don't think that it's controversial to use lecture-capture technology to offer live streams of lecture video. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Samsung's creating its own curated news app for Galaxy devices
Nick Summers, Engadget, 2015/09/02

The partitioning of the web into corporate empires continues. Apple is creating an iOS-only news application. Not to be outdone, Samsung is creating one of their own. More...