13 février 2019

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The trouble with government education technology initiatives
Terry Freedman, ICT & Computing in Education, 2018/10/12
I'm going to select option B, which is give at the end of the article, suggesting that Terry Freedman has  "finally turned into the archetypal cynical grumpy old man sitting in the corner of the staffroom mumbling!" Why? Well, it's that the generalization in the headline is simply false. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why open admission systems don’t always lead to greater equity in higher education
Marie-Helene Doumet, Education & Skills Today, 2018/10/10
People writing about open access to learning need to review their knowledge of necessary and sufficient conditions. It is misleading and trite to say "x by itself won't solve the problem of equity". This is true for pretty much any value of x because solving the problem of equity requires that a number of factors be present. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Flipping the Learning
Read Write Collect, 2018/10/10
Some of the best posts are those providing clear step-by-step instructions on how to do things, in this case, how to flip the classroom. The post describes how to start a blog, how to embed third party content or insert a URL, podcasting, making a class blog, creating a YouTube channel, adding media and plugins, and resource tables. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Blockchain Technology Overview
Peter Mell, Nik Roby, Karen Scarfone, Dylan Yaga, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2018/10/10

This is a good crisp summary that doesn't shy away from technical detail but steps through the major elements of blockchain technology with clarity and precision. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Connected learning
Steve Wheeler, Learning with 'e's, 2018/10/10
It's nice to see people recognize the importance of connected reading, but this post recasts it as some sort of constructivism and feels like it should have been written in the 2000s. I don't want to be critical, because Steve Wheeler is normally on target, but as preparation for a talk in 2019 this outline is solely lacking. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. “It is for publishers to provide Plan S-compliant routes to publication in their journals.”
Richard Poynder, Open and Shut?, 2018/10/11
This is an interview with Robert-Jan Smits, the Open Access Envoy of the European Commission, and who announced Plan S, ensuring research papers funded by European funders are made open access immediately on publication. The ‘S’ in Plan S can stand for ‘science, speed, solution, shock’, Smits told Nature. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How People Learn
Stephen Downes, SlideShare, 2018/10/11
This is a slide show for a talk I'll never give, because it's not my work. It is made up almost entirely of quites from the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report I referenced here the other day. The idea was to pull out the findings and present them in an easy-to-read (and occasionally funny) presentation, because I felt that the work merited a wider reach.

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Decentralising the Internet
Jason Prado, New Socialist, 2018/10/11
This is a pretty good article overall but would have benefited a lot from some clear definitions at the start. So here we go: by centralized, we mean essentially that everybody uses the same server (ie., everybody uses the same URL, for example, facebook.com). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Disruptive Pedagogy and the Practice of Freedom
Julie Fellmayer, Hybrid Pedagogy, 2018/10/11
Baldwin writes that "The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions…" but, "I have yet to hear any EdTech expert or 21st century education guru refer to disruption in the transgressive sense that Baldwin was evoking 54 years ago," writes Julie Fellmayer. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why data culture matters
Alejandro Díaz, Kayvaun Rowshankish, Tamim Saleh, McKinsey Quarterly, 2018/10/09

One of the topics we cover in E-Learning 3.0 us the transition from document-based culture to data-based culture. This article explores that transition. More...