Offline *Only* Viewing
Chris Coyier, CSS-Tricks, 2018/02/09
I'm sure someone will find an application of this sort of technology for online learning. "The Disconnect is an offline-only, digital magazine of commentary, fiction, and poetry. Each issue forces you to disconnect from the internet, giving you a break from constant distractions and relentless advertisements." More...

New Higher-Ed ‘Matchmaking’ Event Aims to Bridge Education Technology Silos
Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge, 2018/02/07
Jumping into the crowded event space are Micharl Feldstein and Phil Hill. Readers will recognize these names as their e-Literate blog is often cited here. More...

Student learning with permissive and restrictive cell phone policies: A classroom experiment
Alexander L. Lancaster, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018/02/07
It's hard to know what conclusions you can draw from a study of 31 students in a Midwestern university class, but this study (13 page PDF) tries. According to the authors, banning cellphones did not improve the students' results in the course. More...

Identity in the Browser (Firefox)
Aza Raskin, 2018/02/05
Longtime readers of OLDaily will remember I created something called mIDm back in 2004. The idea was to put an identifying URL in the browers so I could automatically log into sites. Three days later (literally!) the first proposals for OpenID were released and that's the direction the web went. OpenID was basically replaced by Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, which gives us the third party ID system we use today. It is not satisfying. More...