By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Analysing ORCID coverage across repositories through CORE
Matteo Cancellieri, Petr Knoth, Nancy Pontika, CORE, 2016/10/21

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a system that "provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher...  in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission." This article looks at a study of how widely ORCID identifiers are used through a survey of listings in CORE, an open access research paper aggregation service. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Digital Defenders
Kirsten Fiedler, Theresia Reinhold, European Digital Rights (EDRi), 2016/10/21

I'm not really a fan of the game-fiction-as-learning format, but I agree that it's a useful effort to provide information to children about online security and personal privacy (11 page PDF). More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. With registration for the spring semester beginning on Nov. 14, many students are browsing the UNM course catalog to start piecing together their class schedule. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. From Dabbling to Doing: 6 Tools That Excite Kids About Coding
Tanner Higgin, Mind/Shift, 2016/10/06
This is a bit of a listicle, but I liked the way the six items selected progress from very simple stuff (Scratch, Puzzlets) to more involved coding platforms (Google CS First, Vidcode). Computer science today gets pretty deep in a hurry and developing a basic aptitude for formalization at an early age is probably essential. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning in the Digital Age
Michael Grant, Conference Board of Canada, 2016/10/14
This report from the Conference Board of Canada "explores the potential of e-learning in the Canadian setting." Most Conference Board reports are expensive (like this excellent Learning and Development Outlook from last year) but this one is free. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The digital age has destroyed the concept of ownership, and companies are taking advantage of it
Christopher Groskopf, Quartz, 2016/10/03
The headline is probably not news to the people reading this article. But to people in the movie theatres watching the Cineplex advertising that they can "own this movie" with a superticket, many of the limitations may come as a surprise. More...