Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. LinkedIn today announced that it is open-sourcing an internal tool called FeatureFu. The FeatureFu toolkit is meant to make it easier for developers to build their machine learning models around statistical modeling and decision engines. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. It’s gotten harder to get government workers the training they need. Online learning can help to fill the gap. GovLoop, an online training and collaboration community that describes itself as “the knowledge network for government,” surveyed its members and found that almost 90 percent of respondents had attended at least one virtual learning event in 2014, up 2 percent from 2013. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Writing
Google, 2015/09/18
Guidelines that make web writing clear. They should be posted on the wall of every design shop (including ours). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The paradigm shift: Redefining education
Peter Evans-Greenwood, Kitty O’Leary, Peter Williams, Deloitte, 2015/09/18
Deloitte's Centre for the Edge in Australia has released a report arguing that "being educated" will take on a much broader definition than it has in the past. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Welcome to hell: Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook and the slow death of the web
Nilay Patel, The Verge, 2015/09/17
I think there's some truth and some error in this article. All of it is important. First is the (not-so-)slow strangulation of the traditional web by the big three ocntent providers. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ask Polly: Should I Just Give Up on My Writing?
Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 2015/09/17
Good article. The musicians I admire are the ones who keep writing and playing even if they haven't become stars. The artists are the ones who draw and paint and photograph even if nobody buys their work. The ball players who work on their skills for ten years in the minors. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. NASA shows the world its 20-year virtual reality experiment to train astronauts: The inside story
Erin Carson, Tech Republic, 2015/09/17
This is a terrific article on NASA's use of virtual reality to train astronauts. A lot of the focus of VR is on skills training, but the article makes it clear that one of it's key roles is to give the astronauts a feeling of familiarity with the environment and to help them develop the right intuitions for working in a weightless environment. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Quebec's La Presse to scrap weekday print edition to focus on app
James Bradshaw, Globe, Mail, 2015/09/17
Remember when people said newspapers would never disappear because people would always prefer paper? "You can't read a computer in the bathtub." Remember that? La Presse is a major newspaper in Canada. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Program Will Make Free OnlineTextbooks Available to Manitoba Post-Secondary Students: Minister Allum
Press Release, Government of Manitoba, 2015/09/17
Some good news from my former home province of Manitoba: "Post-secondary students will soon benefit from access to a free online textbook library thanks to the province’s new Open Textbook Initiative, Education and Advanced Learning Minister James Allum announced today. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Student Builds Clock, Is Cuffed for Bomb Hoax, and Ends Up Invited to White House
Peter Baker, Christine Hauser, New York Times, 2015/09/16
It actually says in the New York Times that the boy who built a clock will not be charged. That must be a huge relief. On the bright side, he is being invited to the White House - a totally appropriate and necessary response to an unthinking and prejudiced action that could have left permanent scars. More...
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