By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Build a Custom Serverless CMS: Part 2
John Polacek, CSS-Tricks, 2017/03/08
The second part of this series is now available (I covered the first part here) and it directly relates to some of what I will be talking about tomorrow. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. For Young People, News Is Mobile, Social, and Hard to Trust, Studies Find
Benjamin Herold, Education Week, 2017/03/08
I recently covered the Shattered Mirror report, which suggests (among other things) that young readers still trust media. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OntarioLearn: 24 Public Colleges in Ontario Collaborate
Tracie Marsh-Fior, TeachOnline.ca, 2017/03/08
OntarioLearn "is a consortium of Ontario’s 24 public colleges who partner to share more than 1,200 online courses and several online programs to make them accessible to students across the province and beyond. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Interested in Teaching Online?
Open SUNY Center for Online Teaching, Learning (COTE), 2017/03/08
Introduced today at the SUNY COTE 2017 conference I'm attending. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Foreign enrolment surging in China
ICEF Monitor, 2017/03/08
It used to be the case that students left China to study abroad. This continues, but a new trend is that students are traveling to China to study. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Build a talking, face-recognizing doorbell for about $100
Lukas Biewald, O'Reilly, 2017/03/16
Even if (like me) you don't have the time and space in your life to construct one of these, just reading the article is enough to give you inspiration. It also gives you a 20-20 glimpse into the future. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What Colleges Should Know About A Growing 'Talent Strategy' Push By Companies
Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge, 2017/03/16
The purpose of this post is to advertise the founding of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. FutureLearn’s New Pricing Model Limits Access to Course Content After the Course Ends
Dhawal Shah, Class Central, 2017/03/16
As this article notes, MOOC provider FutureLearn is putting the squeeze on students, cutting off access to MOOC contents unless they pay. It's what we're seeing in the market as a whole. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rationalizing Those 'Irrational' Fears of inBloom
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2017/03/16
On certain levels, I think this is a good article. It makes the point that "while 'personalized learning' might be a powerful slogan for the ed-tech industry and its funders, the sweeping claims about its benefits are largely unproven by educational research," and makes the case that "the public’s 'low tolerance for uncertainty and risk' surrounding student data is hardly irrational." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Higher Education Leaders Are Making Great Teaching A Priority On Their Campuses
Higher Education Today, 2017/03/16
This to me reads like those articles from the 90s and 00s about how newspapers were making quality writing and reporting their top priority. More...
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