The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching
Russell L. Ackoff and Daniel Greenberg, Knowledge@Wharton, January 6, 2013.

A Qualitative Analysis Framework Using Natural Language Processing and Graph Theory
Patrick J. Tierney, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, January 6, 2013.

Intellectual Property Is a University’s Best Friend
Joseph Esposito, The Scholarly Kitchen, January 7, 2013.

Lecture capture: Privacy, please
Ioanna Opidee, University Business, June 11, 2014
People who attend the tapings of sitcoms and game shows don't expect privacy. I don't see why students attending lectures at universities should expect to be any different. Today, when you attend class, the cameras will be on (unless it's one of those very small and intimate seminars, but even here, no single rule prevails). More...

The Revolution Will Not Be Monetized
Will Bourne, Inc., June 11, 2014

This is becoming an increasingly loud trend. "For years, the internet's biggest players have hoarded your personal data and sold it for billions. Now, a band of angry startups is demanding privacy and aiming to overhaul the social-media business forever." This article introduces us to Wickr, with the slogan,  "The Internet is forever. Your private communications don't need to be." It also mentions a number of other "ephemeral chat" tools - Privatext, TigerText, 
Whisper, Mark Cuban's Cyber Dust, and so on. More...

Theory of Change in Education
Oliver Quinlan, June 16, 2014
So here basically is the basis for instructional design: "Start with what you want them to learn, design an experience that will cause them to learn it, build in some checks that this is happening along the way and has happened by the end. This is one of the core lessons of teacher education, and something all effective teachers master, whilst they may decide to tweak it and experiment later." In this post about change Oliver Quinlan looks how this core idea gets lost as, say, new technology takes centre stage. More...

Three issues with the case for banning laptops
Robert Talbert, The Chronicle: Casting Nines, June 17, 2014
I am often present in meetings and sessions where the request is made that people close their laptops. I don't do it. For me, the laptop is the machine I use to help me think; I engage with the ideas being presented in real-time, and create a record I can search and integrate into later work. More...

Curation: Creatively Filtering Content
Sue Watters, The Edublogger, June 17, 2014
I think this is a good article and well worth a look because it encourages the revival of a disappearing activity online these days: reading and writing about other people. This of course is the central activity of OLDaily, so it's close to home for me. But I reject the term 'curation' to describe what I do and what others should do. More...

'Can I Tweet That?'
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, June 13, 2014

Summary of a conference session on the issues raised with respect to professors' use of social media. Normal rules of online postings - such as, for example, a disclaimer stating that the views of the professor are not those of the institution - do not work when there are only 140 characters to work with. More...

Stop Blaming Professors
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, June 10, 2014

This study makes me wonder what's happening outside campus. In a nutshell, it suggests that interaction with diverse views through engagement with academics causes students to moderate their political views, while interaction with similar views through student groups causes them to radicalize their views. More...