By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Experience API and RSS News/Podcast Aggregators in Education
Ted Curran, Ted Curran.net, 2017/02/28
This is an interesting idea. Use RSS (or other syndication formats) to distribute learning resources to people.  OK we've see this bit. Then use xAPI to record reads. It wouldn't be that hard to do this (though feed reading software would have to export this data, which I don't think they currently do). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Conceptual Frameworks: some thoughts
Gardner Campbell, Gardner Writes, 2017/02/28

I often hear people in our field talk about a theory as a "lens" through which to view research. I think this is a misapplication of the concept. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Hot or Not: How Do MOOCs Fit into Corporate eLearning?
Pamela Hogle, Learning Solutions, 2017/02/28

This article mostly quotes George Siemens and myself about the value of MOOCs in corporate learning, plus a few remarks from MOOC critics. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 9 Top eLearning Trends of 2017 from 49 Experts
Bryan Jones, eLearning Art, 2017/02/28

I amde a small contribution to this as one of the "49 experts". The top three over all were mobile, microlearning, and video. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Against Expressive Social Media
Michael Caulfield, Hapgood, 2017/02/27
The early days of the internet split into two major categories: talk, and work. Talk took place on Usenet, work took place everywhere else. I was a work person;  I didn't have much time for Usenet. Work eventually won out, and with the invention of the Web - a work thing - creativity flourished. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. EdX To Retire Foundational 6.002x Platform
Dhawal Shah, Class Central, 2017/02/27

I guess the students who built it have all graduated. We used it for the Personal Learning MOOC. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Can Ottawa Do Innovation?
Alex Usher, Higher Education Strategy Associates, 2017/02/27
This post discusses a National Post article which asserts that Canada has failed at innovation for 100 years and questions whether Trudeau can fix that (presumably via financial transfers to industry, which was the previous government's strategy). I question the original assertion that Canada is not innovative. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Top down implementation of social learning doesn’t work
Jane Hart, Modern Workplace Learning Magazine, 2017/02/27
Jane Hart taps into what I think is a fairly common tendency in enterprise social learning: "it is seen in terms of imposing social and collaboration tools on the workforce, compelling them to share and collaborate, and then controlling  and tracking what they do share." More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 15 Things We Can Do To Stand Up For Science!
Alice Meadows, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2017/02/27
I don't think this is a bad list of things, though I would have been more reluctant to recommend specific products and services the way this article does (or, maybe, would have recommend more than one in each category). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Professors and Politics: What the Research Says
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 2017/02/27
Long discussion of the argument that the professoriate (in the United States) leans left. I have little patience for such discussions because I'm of the view (also expressed in this article) that people on the left self-select into academic positions (just as people on the right self-select into business positions). More...