By Casey Fabris. With new technologies come new ways to cheat. Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based app that has been a hotbed of cyberbullying on college campuses, is also the newest tool for students seeking to cheat on exams. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. LinkedIn shares plummet after 'extraordinary' revenue miss
Sarah Frier, Globe, Mail, 2015/05/01
Here's another example of a stock losing a quarter of its value after missing an earnings target (and proof that releasing the news via an unauthorized tweet really has nothing to do with the plunge in value). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Saddest Tweets Ever
Chris Lott, FNCLL, 2015/04/28
Chris Lott now blogs at http://fncll.org and this week writes of an exchange wherein Gardner Campbell throws water on the possibility that he and Bryan Alexander might every collaborate in some sort of 'literature happening'. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Against close reading
Alex Reid, Digital Digs, 2015/04/15
There are some really good observations in this post. The practise of 'close reading' as it is widely taught involves "the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text." A common criticism of social media and online reading is that students "find nuance, complexity, or just plain length of literary texts less to their liking than we did." I don't think they ever found it to their liking, but let's assume they do. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why LinkedIn Matters
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2015/04/13
"Imagine," says Michael Feldstein, "that you wanted to do a longitudinal study of how students from a particular college do in their careers. In other words, you want to study long-term outcomes." Where would you go. More...
By Matt Reed. Can colleges charge a fee to accept transfer credits?
I had never heard of that until this week. Tressie McMillan Cottom -- if you’re on Twitter and not following her, you’re doing Twitter wrong -- did a tweet about a specific clause in the edX-ASU agreement that stopped me short. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. As far as promoted tweets go, a @GoogleForEdU tweet is not all that annoying. My Twitter world exists at the interaction of education and technology, and the Google for Education promoted tweets are at least somewhat relevant. Read more...
By Elizabeth Raymer. On August 1, 2014, U.S. professor Steven G. Salaita was anticipating starting a new job at the University of Illinois’s Urbana-Champaign campus in two weeks’ time: a tenured position in the American Indian Studies program, which Dr. Salaita had accepted in writing the previous October. That day, though, he received an emailed letter from the university rescinding the job offer. His appointment was subject to approval by the university’s board of trustees, and the appointment would not be submitted to the board, he was told in a letter from Phyllis Wise, chancellor of the University of Illinois. More...
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