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11 mars 2019

L'apprentissage ouvert et les affaires

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. L'apprentissage ouvert et les affaires
Stephen Downes, November 1, 2012, Forum sur l'économie du savoir, Edmunston, via Google Hangout

Talk given en français on the subject of open learning, MOOCs and the lessons for small and medium businesses. Full text of the talk is available here. Sadly, the video shows only the remote audience, not the speaker and slides.

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11 mars 2019

Student characteristics predict university graduation odds

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Student characteristics predict university graduation odds
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Education Research Report, August 2, 2013
Sometimes the state of research in education depresses me. Other times it makes me angry. What, for example, are we to make of this? "Tim Gramling, LP.D., conducted research on characteristics of more than 2,500 students from the full population of one large, for-profit university and found that higher GPA, fulltime enrollment status, black race (over whites)... weighed most heavily in accurately predicting higher graduation odds." So - what. More...

11 mars 2019

Is Online Learning Cheaper?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is Online Learning Cheaper?
Terry Anderson, Virtual Canuck, August 2, 2013
My answer would be, "It depends on what you're doing and who is doing it." Terry Anderson references Tom Carey and David Trick (2013), How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature. More...

11 mars 2019

Why Federate?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Federate?
Tim Bray, Ongoing, August 1, 2013
Tim Bray offers the argument to application developers in favour of employing 'federated identity', that is, using an identity provider such as Facebook, Google, Twitter or Microsoft (and as he says, there are many more, though we never seem to see them) instead of managing logons and storing passwords locally. More...

11 mars 2019

Taking a test is better than studying, even if you just guess: We need to flip the flipped classroom

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Taking a test is better than studying, even if you just guess: We need to flip the flipped classroom
Mark Guzdial, August 1, 2013
The title of the post is a bit misleading, because Mark Guzdial isn't talking about 'taking a test' specifically, "the critical feature of learning is trying to understand, trying to generate an answer." According to the study, "students are better prepared to understand a theory after first exploring by themselves, and that tangible user interfaces are particularly well-suited for that purpose." Of course, Daniel Willingham, who is cited by Guzdial, looks at results like that and reads "test", which he then cites as 'the testing effect'. More...

11 mars 2019

Visiting Seymour

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Visiting Seymour
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, August 1, 2013
Seymour Papert was injured in a traffic accident in 2006 and carries the effects to this day. Audrey Watters takes the occasion of the latest Mindstorms robotics kit (sent to her as a promo by Lego) and a visit to Maine to interview Papert and reflect on his work. More...

11 mars 2019

Is there a link between flexible access and ‘productivity’ in higher education?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is there a link between flexible access and ‘productivity’ in higher education?
Tony Bates, online learning, distance education resources, August 1, 2013
A while back I challenged Tony Bates to expand on a model of educational productivity, and in this post bates begins his reply by outlining two aspects of such a model. His response, I think, illustrates the gulf between his thinking and mine. More...

11 mars 2019

Dino 101 MOOC opens, offering free tuition in paleontology

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Dino 101 MOOC opens, offering free tuition in paleontology
Katie Collins, Wired, July 31, 2013
My old friends at the University of Alberta opened MOOC registration yesterday to the much anticipated Dino 101 massive open online course on paleontology. Who can resist. More...

11 mars 2019

The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic, July 31, 2013
Data reinforcing what we all suspected was true: "Copyright correlates significantly with the disappearance of works rather than with their availability," Heald writes. More...

11 mars 2019

'Could Have Done More'

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 'Could Have Done More'
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, July 31, 2013
MIT has released a report summarizing and evaluating its actions in the wake of the Aaron Swartz case. Swartz, readers may recall, was at MIT when he attempted to download the entire JSTOR library, violating the company's terms of service. They threw the book at him, MIT went "hem, haw" and Swartz eventually committed suicide. More...

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