By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 10 challenging ways to get the best from your SMEs
Donald Clark, Donald Clark Plan B, 2015/12/21
In his tweet Donald Clark says the "SME bridge into online learning production [is] often wobbly, even catastrophic." I wouldn't go quite so far as that, but I do appreciate the need to be clear about the role of the SME in learning design. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Reimagining Online Education
Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed, 2015/12/21
"As long as aviation pioneers tried to mimic birds, controlled, heavier-than-air human flight proved impossible," writes Steven Mintz. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Beyond the MOOC
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2015/12/19
Sure, some say “when the MOOC is Over, turn out the lights…" And yes, the phenomenon of MOOC as buzzword will pass. But the phenomenon that is more durable, if less hyped (and definitely less well financed) is open online learning. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Credits and Credentialing
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2015/12/19
I have long believed we are headed for a post-university-degree era in learning, an era where there is a proliferation of credentials offered by a wide range of agencies. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Employability Narrative
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2015/12/19
Audrey Watters has spent the last week working on articles for her annual Top Ed-Tech Trends series. Today's newsletter (to make up for yesterday's missing newsletter) summarizes four of them. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New and old thoughts on the challenges of fycomp and/or “why students can’t write” through the lens of John Warner
Steve Krause, stevendkrause.com, 2015/12/17
I'll admit, I had to relearn a lot about writing when I entered university. It wasn't because I was a bad writer, and it wasn't because I was locked into the grade-school 'five paragraph style'. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. BBC rated most accurate and reliable TV news, says Ofcom poll
Jasper Jackson, The Guardian, 2015/12/17
When I talk about the use of social media and user-generated content in education one of the most frequent quests I am asked related to the reliability and quality fo the information. And, yes, social media and user-generated content are unreliable. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How the Koch Brothers Are Influencing U.S. Colleges
Dave Levinthal, Time, 2015/12/17
One of the dangers of relying on private donaations for education funding is that the educational institutions are pushed to adopt the funders' culture and values. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Guidelines for accessible information
Marcella Turner-Cmuchal, ICT for Information Accessibility in Learning, 2015/12/17
The latest version of the Guidelines is now available. From the website: "The Guidelines for accessible information are an open educational resource (OER) to support the creation of accessible information in general and for learning in particular. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Skipping Copper: The Consumerization Of Edtech
`Ben Wallerstein, Jacob Stieglitz, TechCrunch, 2015/12/16
As education becomes more affordable, we would expect it to become more of a consumer market than a public services market. But not at the rates we're currently seeing in Asia, where wealthy parents spend as much as 20 percent (South Korea), 7.5 percent (India), 9.5 percent, (China) or 40 percent (Vietnam) or their income supporting their children's education. More...
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