"The Audrey Test": Or, What Should Every Techie Know About Education?
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2018/08/08
The Audrey Test starts out well, beginning with a quick quiz testing your range of relevant knowledge and then some essay questions about the basics of educational theory - " Who is Seymour Papert?" "What is Bloom's Taxonomy?" Ah, but she should have stopped it right there. More...
Why Higher Ed Should Do More with Blockchain Tech
Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology, 2018/08/09
I found that this was more a use case for key-based authentication than it was for blockchain, and I also think the article felt a little bit like an endorsement for a start-up called Trusted Key. There's a lot of key-based authentication systems out there; the market leader is probably Yubi, which just completed a successful trial with Google. More...
Docker Container and Vagrant / Virtualbox 101s
Tony Hirst, OUseful Info, 2018/08/09
This is a very useful article if you're just getting started with virtualization. Tony Hirst starts with a very simple example, specifically, a Python application called Flask, which is in essence a very simple web server. He then provides a Dockerfile which describes the server environment Flask needs to run. More...
xAPI: A Guide for Technical Implementers
Shelly Blake-Plock, IEEE LTSC TAG xAPI, 2018/08/06
This is a comprehensive guide (41 page PDF) describing the history, content and application of the Experience API (xAPI) specification. "xAPI is an application programming interface which allows software applications to exchange data regarding human activity. More...
Kolabora
A new resource from Robin Good, this website provides information and help on conferencing and collaboration on the net. I like the style of the newsfeeds, and may steal the author-site design for my own lists. Also interesting is the set of discussion board (or 'phorum') topics, each with its own RSS feed. More...
Scirus - Science Specific Search Engine
Scott Leslie picks up this good link to Scirus, a "search engine that focuses solely on sources of scientific information and returns results either from qualified web sites or from only scientific journals." This is what I would like to do (or see done) with educational technology journals, in combination with Edu_RSS. More...
Colleges Sweeten Deal With Apartments, Cable
I have commented before that, in order to survive, traditional universities will have to turn from their traditional value proposition - unique access to a higher education - to a new value proposition - the rarified residential environment. More...
Task force: Give Laptops for Students to Take Home
This is a positive initiative. "A business task force looking at education issues wants to provide all Des Moines-area students - in public and private schools - with their own laptop computer over the next two years." But educators say - quite reasonably - that the program cannot cost any teachers their jobs. More...
Sunday Afternoon Thoughts on the Design of RSS Aggregators
Good article outlining the reasons why someone might choose a desktop RSS aggregator over using a server side (website) aggregator. I have tended to use server-sides because (a) they can store a lot more data, useful for searches and the like; (b) I can share this data with other people; and (c) I know how to program server-side applications, but have no patience for the nuances of the dsktop. More...
Reload Eeleases SCORM E-learning Content Player
Kudos to the good people at Reload for releasing an open source SCORM content viewer to go along with their open source SCORM content package editor. More...
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