A new chapter for Glass
Jay Kothari, X Company Blog, 2017/07/19
They're back! Google has relaunched Google Glass with Glass Enterprise Edition. As a fashion statement Glass was a failure, but the technology proved useful in the workplace. "Workers in many fields, like manufacturing, logistics, field services, and healthcare find it useful to consult a wearable device for information and other resources while their hands are busy." This is a use case that really makes sense, and would make even more sense with voice commands. More...
Armenian Higher Education in the European Higher Education Area
Tatevik Gharibyan, Inside Higher Ed, 2017/07/19
This is an update of Armenia's education strategy in the years after it joined "the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the Bologna Process by signing the Bergen Communiqué in 2005." Armenia - which I visited in 2014 - is a small country with few natural resources (though you can get pomogranates everywhere). More...
'Personalized Learning' and the Power of the Gates Foundation to Shape Education Policy
Audrey Wayters, Hack Education, 2017/07/19
What struck me in this post was this: "The amount of money that the Gates Foundation has awarded in education grants is simply staggering: some $15 billion across some 3000+ grants since the organization was founded in 1998." And so Audrey Watters comments. More...
Stunning market data predicts the future of online learning
Meris Stansbury, eCampus News, 2017/07/19
I'm not sure how "stunning" the data are, nor do I thing the prediction is particularly specific. Still. More...
America’s hidden philosophy
John McCumber, Aeon, 2017/07/19
This article offers what could be an interesting explanation for the state of educational policy and while I can't say I necessarily agree with it I can't entirely dismiss it either. It tells the story of UCLA chancellor Raymond B Allen, who needed a reason to fire some Marxist professors during the McCarthy years.” More...
Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology
Jason Palmer, EdSurge, 2017/07/18
It's interesting to see the writers at edSurge motivated to respond to the criticisms leveled by Audrey Watters. In this case we have Jason Palmer responding to "worries that “education technology [merely] serves as a ’Trojan Horse’ of sorts, carrying... the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].” More...
Partnerships with non-state providers need to be approached with caution
Alina Lipcan, Ian MacAuslan, World Education Blog, 2017/07/18
This post contains some good advice. While "policy makers in developing countries look for strategies to improve learning by engaging with private providers," the authors argue that education should continue to be publicly funded "and sensibly provided through a mix of providers, including local NGOs and “mom and pop” schools." There's no single model that works well everywhere. More...
Ph.D.-Level Position, $28K Salary
Nick Roll, Inside Higher Ed, 2017/07/18
At a entertain point, if current trends hold, salaries offered to temporary 'adjunct' or 'sessional' academic staff will fall below the willingness of PhD graduates to accept them. This may be such a case. More...
Behind the Velvet Ropes of Facebook’s Private Groups
Kevin Roose, New York Times, 2017/07/18
Facebook's response to the eruption of trolls and worse in social media is to give them some privacy. "Facebook recently changed its mission to emphasize the role of private groups." Joining the group shifts the algorithm to favour posts from the group. More...
Managing the Complexity of Branching Scenarios
Christy Tucker, Experiencing E-Learning, 2017/07/18
Although this post touts a solution to the complexity of branching scenarios (specifically: Twine) the post illustrates the core problem with them, and with rule-based systems in general. More...
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