Lawmakers to Weigh Database Protection Bill
Though it has long been held that data - such as lists of addresses, court proceedings, or professional directories - cannot be copyrighted, proposed new legislation will keep this information off-limits to those who wish to publish it. More...
Scientists Seek Genetic Data to Personalize Education
Ben Williamson, DML Central, 2018/06/21
This strikes me as a really bad idea, but I present it here so readers can judge for themselves. That said, as the article notes, "It raises significant concerns about biological discrimination and rekindles long debates about eugenics and the genetic inheritance of intelligence." The idea is that "educational genomics seeks to unpack the genetic factors involved in individual differences in learning ability, behavior, motivation, and achievement." The problem, as I see it, is that none of these are genetically based, and further, "the new geneism" may well be just another attempt to import bias and prejudice into the system. More...
CORE becomes the world’s largest aggregator
Balviar Notay, JISC, 2018/06/11
According to this report, "As of May 2018, CORE has aggregated over 131 million article metadata records, 93 million abstracts, 11 million hosted and validated full texts and over 78 million direct links to research papers hosted on other websites." There's a link to a table comparing CORE with seven other open access paper harvesters: BASE, OpenAIRE, Paperity, SHARE, 1findr, OneRepo, and Unpaywall. More...
By Sharon Dell – Africa Editor. In Africa Features, we cover the recent Siyaphumelela conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa, which highlighted some of the challenges – material and otherwise – facing students and impeding their success at universities; Munyaradzi Makoni explores the way in which the Seeding Labs concept is enabling African scientists to take their research to another level with the help of donations of scientific equipment; and Wagdy Sawahel reports on a new draft law that will pave the way for an academy aimed at the development of the ancient Amazigh language in Algeria.RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Learning Object Metadata
I have drafted a proposed RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Learning Object Metadata. The purpose of this module is to support the RSS syndication of IEEE-style learning object metadata. This is version 0.5 and intended for discussion purposes only. More...
It is necessary that Congress change the law to equip not just policymakers — but students — with the information they need to make more informed higher education decisions. The need for good information is increasingly urgent. More...
Strict federal privacy laws protect the private information of students. But those laws only apply to schools. As a new report from Fordham University shows, there are more than a dozen private brokers in the U.S. that can freely sell student data. More...
Providers were asked: How well are colleges using data to measure faculty performance, and what related areas need the most improvements. More...
Comme les « business game » ou les « serious game », le data challenge est un dispositif de gamification qui utilise les mécanismes du jeu pour atteindre un objectif. Le data challenge est issu des hackathons : ces appels à concours qui – sur une période très courte – rassemblent des programmeurs, des concepteurs d’interface ou des graphistes afin de collaborer sur un projet informatique. Plus...
By Marjorie Valbrun. Undergraduate enrollment in the United States, widely measured as decreasing for the last six straight years, fell by more than half a percent from fall 2015 to fall 2016, according to newly released data from the National Center for Education Statistics. More...
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