By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Top 10 IT Issues: 2000–2017
Susan Grajek, EDUCAUSE, 2017/01/26
EDUCAUSE released its annual list of the top IT issues in education last week and the article - though chock-full of useful analysis - is the usual mélange of IT angst: information security, student success, leadership, management, funding, the like. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Cognitive bias cheat sheet
Buster Benson, Better Humans, 2017/01/26
This is a really nice use of Wikipedia to create a useful learning resource. The subject is cognitive bas and the author's intent is to bring together and categorize the various sources of bias, then provide some simple heuristics to comprehend them. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Are We Still Using LMSs?
George Kroner, edutechnica, 2017/01/30
Good question. The author offers responses in terms of convenience, consumerization, connectedness, and compliance, but none of these responses seems to satisfy. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Continuous, Curated Learning: The Business Case
Stephen Walsh, Modern Workplace Learning Magazine, 2017/01/30
Sometimes people call what I do here 'curation', but I really dislike that word, because it's not what I do. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The State of Personalized Learning
Philip Hickman, Ken Eastwood, , Eliot Levinson, Ed Tech Digest, 2017/01/30
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The state of Jupyter
Fernando Pérez, Brian Granger, O'Reilly, 2017/01/30
If you've been doing any work in data analysis you might have run across references to the Jupyter Notebook. Essentially this is an application that allows you to embed running bits of code into a text document. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Amazing Statscan Skills Study
Alex Usher, Higher Education Strategy Associates, 2017/01/30
A recent Statistics Canada report makes for fascinating reading, though I caution that it's based largely on perceptions, which as we know can be misleading. Alex Usher does a decent job summarizing it. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Back to News Print This Is 'Inclusive Access' the Future for Publishers?
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 2017/01/31
What's brilliant about "inclusive access" is that it makes universities and their professors willing accomplices in publishers' campaigns to gouge students for textbook content that should be free or nearly free. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. European Union regulations on algorithmic decision making and a “right to explanation”
Adrian Colyer, The Morning Paper, 2017/01/31
We've seen how an AI can become a racist xenophobe in one day of training. We've also seen how propaganda can create the same effect in an entire nation. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Take a closer peek at this complimentary eBook, Eliminate Nonessential Content below
Helge Scherlund, 2017/01/31
Something I've learned in several decades of speaking and writing is that the space between the words is as important as the words themselves. More...
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