By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Coursera president: bursting the Moocs bubble a boon for us
Chris Havergal, Times Higher Education, 2016/07/11

The publicity - for and against - MOOCs did not hurt Coursera a bit. Rather, it gave it the exposure it needed, and served to help them refine their business model. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Pokémon GO
Nintendo, 2016/07/11

The newly released Pokemon Go is an instant hit, though the technology has been growing for a while. What's interesting about it is that it creates virtual entities that inhabit the real world. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why and How Does Consciousness Seem the Way it Seems?
Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University, 2016/07/11

Useful paper from Daniel Dennett summarizing some of his major arguments about consciousness. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Adaptive Learners, Not Adaptive Learning
George Siemens, elearnspace, 2016/07/22

George Siemens gets this right. "This is where adaptive learning fails today: the future of work is about process attributes whereas the focus of adaptive learning is on product skills and low-level memorizable knowledge." More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. HundrEd Interview with Stephen Heppell
Andrew Robertson, Microsoft UK Schools Blog, 2016/07/22

Stephen Heppell is Professor of New Media Environments at Bournemouth University and has a long and good reputation in the field. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Share This or My Blog Will Self-Distruct: A mini-lesson on digital citizenship
Heather M. Ross, McToonish, 2016/07/22

As you can see, I wasn't willing to see Heather Ross's blog self-destruct. More to the point, I wanted to share her thoughts on digital citizenship, thoughts which go well beyond digital literacy. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The next wave of disruption: Graph-based machine learning
Kathryn Cave, IDG Connect, 2016/07/18

"It's at the intersection of machine learning and graph technology where the next evolution lies and where new disruptive companies are emerging," according to this article. More...