By Amy Cavender. Last week, I introduced readers to Installatron, a tool that’s very useful for backing up and cloning WordPress installations. This week’s post continues the WordPress thread.
Many of us who use WordPress use it for maintaining a personal website and/or a professional portfolio; we’re the only users registered on our sites. Read more...
By Jeffrey R. Young. Many people know Tyler Cowen for his economics blog, Marginal Revolution. More...
By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. If you don’t already have a personal website, you’ve probably been meaning to create one, right? You'll set up a home page, maybe a short bio page, definitely a link to your CV. Maybe you’ll add a space for blogging because somebody told you once that academics should blog. And, you’ll probably utilize WordPress to put this altogether. Read more...
Today marks the launch of the ESNblog, a brand new platform by the Erasmus Student Network, catering to Erasmus+ exchange and internationally minded students and youth. With content specially tailored for an international audience, the ESNblog will serve weekly doses of informative as well as entertaining articles to help you make the most of your mobile lifestyle. More...
Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. Nouvelle progression, fort significative, de la fréquentation de ce blog au premier trimestre 2016 puisque nous sommes à 181 876 pages lues, soit une hausse de 17 % en un trimestre et 147 689 lecteurs uniques, soit une hausse de 22%. La moyenne journalière est donc de 1 999 pages lues, et de 1623 1318 lecteurs uniques. Suite...
By Matthew Reisz. Blogging is now an essential weapon in most scientists’ armoury. More...
This presentation will discuss a number of recent case studies, contrast examples of private and public edublogs, and explore issues such as learner and instructor roles and responsibilities, learner choices, ethical considerations, learning goals, instructional strategies and activities, and assessment methods. More...
The blog as a type of social software has been used in education for several years, and its positive effect in the field has been asserted in many studies. This study presents the factors of participants and blogs that predict blogging activeness during teaching practice and induction year. During the teaching practice and induction year all participants could use a blog to share experiences, ask questions, receive support and so on. The blogs were supported by the tutors and all blogs were collective blogs, but they were organised differently and used differently. The data collected included 1,137 blog posts from 192 participants using 13 collective blogs along with their self-reports via pre- and post-period questionnaires. Correlation analysis as the first stage and regression analysis as the second stage was used in this study. The results showed several relationships and the regression analysis indicated that the most influential positive factor predicting participant activeness on the blog was the strength of social relationships between the participants. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sentiment analysis of student blog posts
David T. Jones, The Weblog of (a) David Jones, 2016/02/15
One of the more interesting types of analytics to be developed in recent years is sentiment analytics. At the National Research Council, for example, we have developed a mechanism for detecting the sentiment of a tweet. More...
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Tout pour l’emploi : bloc-notes d’analyses sur les politiques d’emploi, de la formation, de l’orientation et de la jeunesse. Suite...
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