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27 février 2019

Visualizing the community neocortex

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Visualizing the community neocortex
Fred Bartels, Icl - Meta MOOC Explorations, February 18, 2013
Interesting 'meta MOOC' community created by Fred Bartels and an interesting diagram (above) capturing nicely the model of MOOCs as I see them (the people working in neural networks and connectionism will recognize it as a perceptual system, which is exactly what I think MOOCs are). More...

27 février 2019

We don’t need no educator: The role of the teacher in today’s online education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. We don’t need no educator : The role of the teacher in today’s online education
Stephen Downes, February 15, 2013, Utdanningskonferansen 2013, Bergen, Norway
This presentation, delivered in Bergen, Norway, describes the changing nature of online learning with the introduction of massive open online courses, and in that context describes and explains the changing roles of the educator.

[Link] [Slides] [Audio]. More...

27 février 2019

Price of a Bad Review

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Price of a Bad Review
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, February 8, 2013
Though we hear from time to time (i.e., yesterday) that the American patent system is broken, my own feeing si that it the the American legal system that is broken. In The Litigation Society, you can expec justice only if you can afford justice, and in most cases, you cannot afford justice. More...

27 février 2019

Negating the learner in the learning process

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Negating the learner in the learning process
George Siemens, elearns, February 4, 2013
Nice. It looks like the bulk of CCK08 is now available again online. The newsletter archives have always been available, here - scroll down to 2008. Now the pages and Moodle forum are back on the University of Manitoba website, here. More...

27 février 2019

Net Neutrality Offensive

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Net Neutrality Offensive
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, Jul 11, 2014

Academic groups are (once again) stressing the importance of net neutrality. More...

27 février 2019

Sorry, Folks, Rich People Don't Create The Jobs

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sorry, Folks, Rich People Don't Create The Jobs
Henry Blodget, Business Insider, Jul 07, 2014
Or, put another way, education does far more to create jobs than rich people. That is not to say that we do not need people to make investments or start companies. We do - we need both. More...

27 février 2019

How Should I Offer This Course? The Course Delivery Decision Model (CDDM)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Should I Offer This Course? The Course Delivery Decision Model (CDDM)
Thomas M. Brinthaupt, Maria A. Clayton, Barbara J. Draude, Paula T. Calahan, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT), Jul 03, 2014
This is not a bad paper though I wish the authors had been more imaginative in their typology of delivery models - the old "in-class, hybrid or online" classification could admit of much more nuance, ranging from pedagogical style (active learning, constructionism, lecture) through to media employed (videos, texts, simulations). More...

27 février 2019

Recalibrating Our Approach to Misinformation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Recalibrating Our Approach to Misinformation
Michael Caulfield, EdSurge, 2018/12/27
I generally appreciate what Michael Caulfield has to say, but I haven't been in agreement with his approach to fake news. And I really dislike his characterization of critical thinking as "the thoughts and prayers of the educational industry." Now to be fair, he is talking about it being "wrongly applied". More...

27 février 2019

We Are Underinvesting in Human Capital

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. We Are Underinvesting in Human Capital
Michael Echols, Chief Learning Officer, 2018/12/27
One of the reasons why I could never be EdSurge's new business reporter is that I could never take the business-focused stance toward the 'education industry'. This article is a case in point. More...

27 février 2019

The Homeostatic Fallacy and Misinformation Literacy

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Homeostatic Fallacy and Misinformation Literacy
Michael Caulfield, Hapgood, 2018/12/24
This is a few days old but I want to make sure this item does not get lost in the shuffle. The idea here is that people have a natural 'set point' that they drift back to - new information, for example, is not likely to change one's core beliefs, which is (partially) why you cannot simply appeal to reason and evidence to (say) persuade a person to quit smoking. More...

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