By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Survey: 87 Percent of Parents Are Concerned About Student Data Security
Christopher Piehler, THE Journal, 2015/09/02
Your school might not be concerned about your privacy. But your parents are. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Samsung's creating its own curated news app for Galaxy devices
Nick Summers, Engadget, 2015/09/02
The partitioning of the web into corporate empires continues. Apple is creating an iOS-only news application. Not to be outdone, Samsung is creating one of their own. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Survey: 87 Percent of Parents Are Concerned About Student Data Security
Christopher Piehler, THE Journal, 2015/09/02
Your school might not be concerned about your privacy. But your parents are. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Faculty at Work
Alex Reid, Digital Digs, 2015/09/02
I think we are in a golden age of music. As I site here in a Tim Hortons typing this I am listening to the second of six versions of Girl Crush on my Google Music application (website version; let's keep the net neutral). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. I'm Jane McGonigal, Game Designer and Author, and This Is How I Work
Andy Orin, LifeHacker, 2015/09/02
Everybody works a little bit differently and there is no perfect recipe for us to follow. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Design Elements in a Personal Learning Environment
Stephen Downes, [Sept] 01, 2015, Invited Talk, Guadalajara, Mexico
This is an update of an earlier presentation in which I outline the major elements of a personal learning environment and describe its origins in the concept of the MOOC. Some new slides describing the architecture and how to contribute to the expansion of LPSS. As well, this presentation comes the day after this workshop in Guadalajara and is informed by it. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OpenShot: Open Source Video Editor
Christopher Whittum, Energize Education Through Open Source, 2015/08/31
This is a review of an open source alternative to Premiere or Microsoft Movie Maker. It's called OpenShot and the only real drawback is that it is only available for Fedora and Ubuntu Linux - though if you're using an open source video editor you probably already use Linux. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Connecting industry professionals to every classroom!
Nepris, 2015/08/31
Interesting concept for a website. According to the promo blurb, "We make it easy for teachers to virtually invite industry professionals into the classroom to bring real world relevance to curriculum topics, to help evaluate student projects and to engage and inspire students in STEAM!" More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Christine Greenhow, assistant professor of counseling, educational psychology and special education at Michigan State University’s College of Education is bringing the concept of telecommuting to the academy using robotic technology. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Depending on whom you ask, universities benefit in a few different ways. For some, the upside is that the courses may sow seeds for the MOOC students to eventually enroll at the university, generating revenue. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Studying on the fly will present some challenges, but it can be done. Lara Martini, who is Microsoft’s director of commercial markets strategy for Latin America, finished her MBA last fall despite traveling more than half the time. More...