The mutating metric machinery of higher education
Ben Williamson, Code Acts in Education, 2018/09/26
"The narrative," writes Ben Williamson, "is that HE has been made to resemble a market in which institutions, staff and students are all positioned competitively, with measurement techniques required to assess, compare and rank their various performances." It's an unsettling narrative, he writes. More...
Amid Low Adoption, DoD R&D Will Keep xAPI Alive And That’s Good News
Cristian T. Duque, Moodle News, 2018/09/20
I'm not worried about the future of xAPI, even if the adoption rate has been low thus far. The value proposition of xAPI becomes apparent once you begin using multiiple e-learning applications and want a single activity record. That's not so clear a value when you only use one LMS, but as the technology landscape becomes more distributed, the benefits of xAPI (or something like xAPI) will be come much more clear. More...
John Hancock Will Only Sell Interactive Life Insurance with Fitness Data Tracking
Suzanne Barlyn, Insurance Journal, 2018/09/20
I read a post from Ryerson this morning that began "It’s getting more and more difficult to make a case for privacy when so many people are willingly sharing so much of their personal information online." The answer had hardly begun to form in my mind when I encountered this item from the BBC which makes it clear as crystal. More...
Le Conseil National des Chambres Régionales de l'Economie Sociale et Solidaire (Cncress), avec le soutien des CRESS sur les territoires, organise la 11e édition du mois de l'économie sociale et solidaire en novembre. Cette manifestation nationale permet de mobiliser les acteurs du secteur ainsi que les partenaires locaux, régionaux et nationaux. Elle favorise également la visibilité de l'ESS auprès du grand public.The Side Effects of Education: Research and Practice
Beth Holland, Education Week, 2018/09/13
The author considers the use of scientific evidence in education research in the light of Yong Zhao's new book: What Works May Hurt - The Side Effects of Education. The major argument is this: " educators, policymakers, and researchers need to acknowledge that "the effect of any treatment is the result of interaction between the characteristics of the treatment and characteristics of the individual" (p. 90)" (the use of the word 'treatment' speaks to the analogy people are trying to draw between health and medicine). More...
Why We Need Web 3.0
Gav Would, Medium, 2018/09/13
More and more, as Ethereum co-founder Gab Would says, we are seeing that "the internet today is broken by design." It is centralized, it is driven by "the greedy, the megalomaniacs, or the plain malicious," and it provides no defense against fake news, cyber-attacks and surveillance. Hence the need for what is being called web 3.0 (backed by a suite of applications called web3). More...
EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
James Vincent, The Verge, 2018/09/13
There has been a lot of discussion regarding these regulations. Technology companies and activist organizations like EFF are particularly concerned (BoingBoing says "Europe just voted to wreck the internet, spying on everything and censoring vast swathes of our communications". More...
Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web
Zoë Corbyn, The Guardian, 2018/09/13
The web you thought you knew is getting ready for some major changes. "The proponents of the so-called decentralised web – or DWeb – want a new, better web where the entire planet’s population can communicate without having to rely on big companies that amass our data for profit and make it easier for governments to conduct surveillance." DWeb, or Web 3.0 (as it's also called in today's OLDaily) is coming. More...
E-Learning 3.0 - The Outline
Stephen Downes, Google Docs, 2018/09/13
I will be offering a MOOC called "E-Learning 3.0" this fall, launching at the Global Online Learning Summit | Online Learning 2018 in mid-October. The course will explore some of the major themes underlying what has been called Web 3.0 or DWeb and how they will impact online learning. My focus, as always, is educational technology, but of course technology can only be discussed in terms of the social, cultural and economic environment in which it is applied. The page linked here is a tentative outline for the course - please feel encouraged to add comments or suggestions. There's no sign-up form or anything like that - I will ask for information only if it's needed either to provide services (like email newsletters) or for research purposes (purely voluntary & with full disclosure).
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Here's what Americans say it will take to rebuild their trust in the media
Christine Schmidt, NiemanLab, 2018/09/12
There's a lot going on in this article, but here's how I read it: for people who distrust the media, the most cited reason is bias, but for people who trust the media, the most cited reason is accuracy, and transparency can improve trust in the media generally. More...
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