By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Organizations Don't Learn
Jay Cross, Internet Time Blog, 2015/11/05
Jay Cross looks at an article entitled Why Organizations Don’t Learn in the November Harvard Business Review and suggests that "the resemblance of their suggestions and the content of Real Learning is uncanny." The difference, though, is that "everything recommended by HBR deals with the supply side. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Refresher on Regression Analysis
Amy Gallo, Harvard Business Review, 2015/11/04
Under what conditions can one event allow us to predict a second event? When it rains, will umbrella sales go up? By how much? This is the topic of 'regression analysis', and is the basis for predictive analytics generally. More...
By . There is something about research in modern languages (or English, as we used to call it) that sets many people’s teeth on edge, but usually for the wrong reasons.
Let’s go back a few months to Congress, specifically to an article Margaret Wente wrote where she teed-off on a paper called “Sexed-up Paratext: The Moral Function of Breasts in 1940s Canadian Pulp Science Fiction”. Her point mostly was about “whatever happened to the great texts?” Which, you know: who cares? The canon is overrated, and the transversal skills that matter can be taught through many different types of materials. More...
There has been a significant and worrying decline in the number of UK and other EU part-time entrants entering higher education as HEPI have recently documented in It’s the finance, stupid! The decline of part-time higher education and what to do about it. The focus now needs to be on ways to reverse this decline. More...
The publication of the higher education green paper a few days ago was a big moment for English policymaking – even if the chilling events in Paris have made such parochial concerns seem less important, as well as serving to remind people of an atrocity in which students at a Kenyan University were murdered in April. More...
By Sasha Thackaberry. It was my first time at the WCET Annual Meeting in Denver. I was extremely fortunate to attend and thrilled to present with Luke Dowden, whom I met for the first time at the conference. To hang on to some of the great learning, I wanted to create a brief recap of the conference and some thoughts on the next evolution of edtech in higher ed. More...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. In my last post which paralleled neurons with humans, and which drew a parallel between curation and giving rise to new forms of being, I ended with the question what the next step into evolution from curation could be. It seems there are some nice new realisations which might possibly look into this. Read more...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. One afternoon while letting my mind flow freely, it came to me that it is easy to see a parallel between the way humans seem to group together, and the way synapses strengthen each other while creating specialized regions in the brain. A fun analogy. In this blogpost I explore how to move from stem-cells to curated humans, to artificial neurons becoming conscious. Read more...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Yesterday Jay Cross passed away. When Clark Quinn sent out the message, I felt hurt in my heart. Real pain, which struck me as being unexpected as Jay was an online colleague at first, but we engaged in many conversations and thus – apparently – my heart embraced him, just like Jay embraced people warmheartedly all the time. He could appeal to the authentic self so easily, by being authentic himself. Read more...
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