Cognitive Privilege
Darren Miller, Linking and Thinking on Education, 2017/08/04
This post offers a clear example of how the argument around privelege is (deliberately?) misrepresented. It discusses the concept of 'cognitive privilege', which writers purport to have discovered: "Daily Iowan author Dan Williams argues, people have no control over how smart they are… 'Consequently, you have nothing to be proud of for being smart.'" Darren Miller rejoinds, "I guess Olympians and professional athletes have nothing to be proud of, either." Now I'm not an Olympic athlete, but I am one of the cognitively privileged. More...

Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics
2017/08/02
According to the website, "the Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics (SHEILA) project will build a policy development framework that promotes formative assessment and personalized learning, by taking advantage of direct engagement of stakeholders in the development process." The project is supported by the European Union's Erasmus+ program. It uses something called ROMA - the Rapid Outcome Mapping Approach. More...

MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation
Freda Wolfenden, Simon Cross, Fiona Henry, Journal of Learning for Development, 2017/08/02
This study shows why it's important to test hypotheses with different models and different user groups. It describes a MOOC in India offered first in English and then in Hindi, attracting more than 40,000 students in all, and achieving completion rates over 50%. More...

Tearing Down Walls to Deliver on the Promise of Edtech
Stephen Laster, EDUCAUSE Review, 2017/08/02
More on next-generation learning environments, this time from  the chief digital officer for McGraw-Hill Education. More...

Elsevier Acquires bepress
Roger C. Shonfeld, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2017/08/03
Produced by bepress, "Digital Commons is the only comprehensive showcase that lets institutions publish, manage, and increase recognition for everything produced on campus—and the only institutional repository and publishing platform that integrates with a full faculty research and impact suite." It was acquired this week by Elsever, prompting reassurances on discussion lists. More...

Learning in the Collaboration Age
Charles Jennings, Workplace Performance, 2017/08/03
I want to test the idea that there is a set of 'core concepts' in any discipline. Let's consider our own: if we look at the map I created, where is the core? It's a web, not a hierarchy. More...

Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 is Released
Chris Ferris, Jonathan Levi, Hyperledger, 2017/08/01
From the website as Fabric 1.0 is released: "Hyperledger Fabric is a blockchain framework implementation and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. More...

‘Motrain’, Virtual Coin-Based Corporate Learning Motivation App For Moodle
Moodle News, 2017/08/01
Is a virtual currency the one thing you thought the learning management system was lacking? Me neither. But here it is, nonetheless. More...