By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. When a $100M Installation Doesn't Go as Planned
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/02/12

One of the comments to this article suggests that it isn't news that a college system is having trouble converting from a home-grown to a PeopleSoft administrative software system. Maybe it isn't. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. openSAP breaks through 1 million
Steve Brooks, Enterprise Times, 2016/02/12

This is an interesting milestone and is a good example of the sort of shape a lot of e-learning will take in the future. The OpenSAP MOOC "platform was launched in 2013 in conjunction with the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and has been constantly evolving over the last three years." More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. All Hail The Algorithm
David J McGee, Metafilter, 2016/02/12

The think that made Twitter the most democratic of the social media platforms was that it didn't pick winners. You read what you were subscribed to, in the order it was sent. No more. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Personal Learning Mooc
noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Downes), Half an Hour, 2016/02/12

This course explores the topic of learning in three ways: first, through an examination of research and development issues related to the topic; second, through interaction with a personal learning environment (specifically: LPSS) to take the course; and third, through activities supporting the development of a personal learning environment at a conceptual level. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Meet the Robin Hood of Science
Simon Oxenham, Big Think, 2016/02/11

This is the story of "Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, illegally providing access to nearly every scientific paper ever published immediately to anyone who wants it." It's the internet's solution to a problem that has existed for many years. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Thousands of students caught up in major college collapse
Henrietta Cook, Sarah Danckert, Sydney Morning Herald, 2016/02/11

Following "a federal government crackdown on the scandal-plagued vocational education sector," thousands of Australian students have been left with large debts and unable to complete their studies. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Info for Romance Scam Victims
Alec Couros, Open Thinking, 2016/02/11
Alec Couros is hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit on the subject of catfishing. Couros, well known in social media and educational technology circles, has had his image used by dating and romance site scams (also known as 'catfishing') for the last decade. The social media companies do little to help. More...