The LMS is dead, not unlike God: thoughts on the NGDLE
Jim Groom, bavatuesdays, 2017/07/18
Jim Groom and Brian Lamb are working on a position paper challenging traditional models of higher education. This is Groom's contribution, which he sets out in the context of the EDUCAUSE Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE), which he notes, was the subject of an entire issue of EDUCAUSE Review. More...
Apple’s Next Move? It’s Obvious. But We’re Missing It.
Seyi Fabode, HackerNoon, 2017/07/17
The title is unfortunate clickbait, but ignore that, as the content is worth the read. The main point is that the next big thing will be electricity management (and that Apple will be the ones to own the market). More...
Adult MOOC Learners as Self-Directed: Perceptions of Motivation, Success, and Completion
Jamie Loizzo, Peggy A. Ertmer, William R. Watson, Sunnie Lee Watson, Online Learning , 2017/07/17
While it's true that you can't learn everything you need to learn from surveys of large numbers of people, if you are doing in-depth studies with a small number of people (12, in this case) then you have to resist the temptation to generalize. More...
Back to the RSS(R)
Doug Belshaw, Discours.es, 2017/07/17
I've been a Feedly Pro user (and payer) for the last four years (yes, I sometimes pay for software!). And RSS is one of the most important tools I use to compile these newsletters. Algorithms can be useful, but the algorithm doesn't exist yet that caters to personal informational needs. Twitter also, as Bryan Alexander observes, is a flawed filter. More...
Will Virtual Reality Drive Deeper Learning?
Holly Korbey, Edutopia, 2017/07/17
The answer is, it might. But it depends on how it is used, and we need to understand that it won't do all things. It won't if it's just a passive experience. This article cites Audrey Watters: “My question is always: How is virtual reality different from educational film?” And it won't if the VR experience is just a virtual classroom or (as pictured) campus. More...
Toward Personal Learning: Reclaiming a role for humanity in a world of commercialism and automation
Stephen Downes, 2017/07/17
This is my ninth eBook and the first in five years. The result is another 750 page book, for which I deeply apologize. But don’t worry, it goes so fast it only feels like 550. More...
Students are Better Off without a Laptop in the Classroom
Cindi May, Scientific American, 2017/07/21
So this is another one of those research surveys of "students who were enrolled in an introductory psychology course" which tell us utterly nothing but make it into the news anyway. In this case, the 'news' in question is Scientific American, which should be ashamed of itself. More...
WeChat’s director of user growth talks up new features for overseas clients
Clayton Jacobs, ReadWrite, 2017/07/21
Worth keeping an eye on, because we'll see this capability migrate to our part of the world eventually. More...
DIY VR Viewer
Richard Byrne, Free Technology for Teachers, 2017/07/21
How much was oculus Rift again? OK, you're probably not getting the same quality of virtual reality, but you can't beat the price. More...
The principles of learning to design learning environments
OECD, 2017/07/21
This is a chapter from the recently released OECD Handbook for Innovative Learning Environments, the entirely of which appears to be accessible for reading online (knowing OECD, this may be an accident, so download it quickly). The principles in and of themselves are interesting. More...
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