Interview with SoapBox Labs Founder on Speech Recognition API to Enhance Children’s Interactions with Smart Devices
Sandra Rogers, AACE Review, 2018/05/02
So this is pretty cool. Speech interfaces for educational technology are advancing rapidly (as I guess shopuld not be surprising in the age of voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa and Google). More...
As Facebook Shows Its Flaws, What Might A Better Social Network Look Like?
Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 2018/05/02
This topic is on my mind a lot as I work through the various permutations of what a learning network might look like. Not like Facebook. Not like Twitter. This article mentions Mastodon, which is one of my current social networks of choice. More...
Introducing Badgr Pathways
Concentric Sky, 2018/05/02
I think this was probably a necessary step in the development of a badge infrastructure. The idea of Pathways is that badges can be combined (some say 'stacked', as in 'stackable credentials') to add up to higher-level credentials. More...
The Impact of Free Primary Education Inputs On Educational Outcomes in Kenya (2003 To 2013)
Dorothy Akinyi Owuor, European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018/05/02
For any measure of educational outcomes there is a ready-made body of literature suggesting that increasing spending to support free primary education (FPE) will not increase outcomes. I have my doubts about this research and always keep my eyes open for counterexamples. More...
Personal Data has Entered the GDPR Era
CLUSIF, 2018/05/02
Good diagram (one page PDF) outlining the General Data Protection Regulation being implemented in Europe. It's complex but rewards a closer look. More...
Exploring the Open Knowledge Landscape
Lorna M Campbell, Open World, 2018/05/02
There's a lot going on in this post from Lorna Campbell consisting of the transcript and slides from her keynote at the FLOSS UK Spring Conference in Edinburgh. It's a pretty good overview of open education and open educational resources (OER). More...
Conceptualising OEP: A review of theoretical and empirical literature in Open Educational Practices
Catherine Cronin, Iain MacLaren, Open Praxis, 2018/05/01
This is a taxonomy more than anything but also "aims to provide a useful synthesis of OEP literature for education researchers and practitioners." The authors assert "one or more of the following bodies of work were cited in all subsequent academic literature in the area of OEP:
This suggests to me that their focus was a bit narrow (surely discussion of open educational practices existed outside reference to these initiatives - like this one, for example, or this one, or this one, or even this one, or for that matter our discussions about MOOCs from 2008 and forward. More...
The Wisdon and/or Madness of Crowds
Nicky Case, 2018/05/01
This is a really nice visualization of some of the (very) basic concepts of learning in self-organizing networks. It takes a social perspective (as opposed to, say, a machine learning perspective) and offers an intuitive and accessible way to comprehend learning networks. More...
George Mason’s President Says Some Donor Agreements Fell ‘Short’ of Academic Standards
Nell Gluckman, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/05/01
According to this article, "agreements show that the Koch Foundation and other donors had room to influence the selection and work of the professors whose positions they spent millions to support." More...
Are Etextbooks Affordable Now?
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, 2018/05/01
For most people in the world, the answer to this question is still "no". I have always worked on the principle of a two-times-order-of-magnitude reduction in cost as the standard for digitization. The textbook that used to cost $60 should now cost $0.60. More...
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