By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Docker as a Personal Application Runner
Tony Hirst, OUseful Info, 2016/05/11
Now that I have a lot more free time (during which I will not be writing program reports) I will have time to investigate what can be usefully done with technology like Docker. There's a lot here that accords with my own thinking about educational applications. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Options for Building Web Forms
Geoff Graham, CSS-Tricks, 2016/05/11
This may seem like a pretty basic thing, but if you don't know how to do it there's no obvious place to start. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. I want my data
Mike Sharkey, Blackboard Blog, 2016/05/11
Interesting post from Blackboard talking about the different ways institutions can receive data from their LMS (no word on data for individual students). I like the way the different types of data provision are depicted, ranging from raw data to automatically generated predictions (as compared to fixing up your own car vs taking an Uber). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why is simpler better?
Elliott Sober, Aeon, 2016/05/11
Elliott Sober is one of the more well-known and well-regarded philosophers today, and it is on the strength of work like this that he deserves his reputation. In a relatively short and crystal-clear essay he explains our historical preference for simplicity in science, and explains some of the theoretical underpinnings for that preference. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Predictive Analytics for Publishing
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/05/11
A new entrant based in Toronto is offering competition for Academia and ResearchGate. As this article says, Meta helps researchers to follow topics of interest in biomedical sciences (it intends to expand) with individual feed lists and libraries. The interesting bit is that Meta has organized this work as a graph of topics, researchers, journals and other elements. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Yet another AIMS misfire on e-learning in Nova Scotia schools
Grant Frost, Local xPress, 2016/05/31
Criticism of a recent report from the Atlantic Institute of Market Studies (AIMS) on online learning in eastern Canada. I covered the report reasonably favourably. But the Nova Scotia Teacher's Union (NSTU) was not happy and neither was Grant Frost, both of which call the report's author to task for understating the scale of online learning innovation in the province. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The enterprise technologies to watch in 2016
Dion Hinchcliffe, ZDNet, 2016/05/31
This list shouldn't surprise readers, though it's interesting to note the influence of consumer technology on the enterprise sectors. The top technologies to watch include MOOCs, microservices, public and hybrid cloud, user experiences, team collaboration, social enterprise, and more. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Technology and the Changing Needs of the Workforce Will Create the Higher Education System of the Future
Jamie Merisotis, EDUCAUSE Review, 2016/05/31
Good overview article looking at the evolving system of credentials management in U.S. education. But will the One True System do the job? "This new effort, which is linking previously disconnected actors, can be best understood via a new Connecting Credentials platform for these actors to learn and share from each other. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ten years of open practice: a reflection on the impact of OpenLearn
Patrina Law, Anne Jelfs, Open Praxis, 2016/05/31
The best part of this article (7 page PDF) is the last page, where the author draws a number of interesting conclusions from a ten-year review of OpenLearn, an Open University open educational resources (OER) initiative. The paper itself is a bit loose (possibly because of brevity) so we don't see how these conclusions are established. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Framework for the Ethics of Open Education
Robert Farrow, Open Praxis, 2016/05/31
"This paper proposes a framework that focuses on the ethical significance of a particular group of educational technologies usually referred to as open education," writes Robert Farrow, noting " is “a paucity of literature” addressing the socioethical dimensions" and the suggestion that while open learning such as MOOCs is intended to extend access to learning, it tends to support the already privileged. More...
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