Limitless learning plenary #OEB16 on owning learning
Inge de Waard, Ignatia Webs, 2016/12/05

Good summary of the Friday plenary at Online Educa Berlin. More...

Videonotes
Nik Peachey, PayHip, Digital Classrooms, 2016/12/05
Nik Peachey has written a new guide to a lovely application distributed around four years ago by Clément Delangue and Arnaud Breton. It allows the user to view a YouTube video and take time-stamped notes in the same environment. More...

Inside IFTTT's Plan For A More Harmonious Internet
Jared Newman, Fast Company, 2016/12/05
I've been using IFTTT as a useful tool to connect my various social network services for several years now. As it migrates from a free service to something more self-sustaining, though, IFTTT is shifting its focus. It remains an open question whether it will continue to be useful. More...

Experimenting with alternative social networks
D’Arcy Norman, D’Arcy Norman Dot Net, 2016/12/05
As readers know, I dropped out of Facebook at the end of the summer. It felt lonely but it was a good move - the people who were missing my posts on Facebook came back, and viewership on downes.ca went from the 25K per month it had averaged to more like 40K per month. More...

LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn, 2016/12/05

I think this is a pretty important development. LinkedIn has been collecting professional and resum data through its social network service for a number of years and is now marketing its learning services. More...

Chinese MOOC learners to top 10 million by year end
Beckie Smith, The PIE News, 2016/12/05
Only a few months after passing the 5 million user mark a new white paper projects that XuetangX, China's largest MOOC provider, will have 10 million users by year's end. More...

The hi:project
Hi:project, 2016/12/05
Readers are probably familiar with the distinction I've drawn between personal and personalized learning. This proposal draws a distinction along very much the same lines, as follows:

• User Interface - the user must fit to the machine
• Surveillance Interface (personalization) - fitted to the individual
• Human Interface (personal) - fits to the individual. More...

Questioning 'Identity Liberalism'
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/12/05
This is a good article dealing with the implications of the backlash against diversity in the wake of recent populist victories. The premise of the anti-diversity argument is that " liberals must appeal 'to Americans as Americans.' But of course, "Lilla 'overlooks the fact that Americanness itself is a particular constructed identity." So is Britishness. More...

What You Can Learn From the Social Media Crisis That Wasn't
Ken Wheaton, Advertising Age, 2016/12/06
When I was the editor of a student newspaper so many years ago I was amazed how sensitive people were to every word we wrote. I knew our influence was far less than people thought. More...

Making A Large Wheel Skeleton Clock
Clickspring Chris, Clickspring, YouTube, 2016/12/06
Before the internet you would never ever have seen something like this; the closest you would get would be the furniture-making shows on public television. More...