GraphQL
Facebook, 2017/05/25
This technology, used already by Coursera and just adopted by GitHub, has the potential to replace REpresentational State Transfer (REST) as the primary language for Application Programming Interfaces (API). This is the way web servers communicate with each other when handling requests. More...

Barnes & Noble Ed Pushing Beyond Books
2017/05/25
Why would Barnes & Noble make a deal to bring predictive analytics services to universities? Phil Hill says Hill said it suggests recently acquired B&N subsidiary LoudCloud "is focusing more intently on analytics after years of being 'here, there and everywhere' in the ed-tech market." But it also represents a deeper push by the publisher to get into learning technology generally. More...

Don’t Let Personalized Learning Become the Processed Food of Education
Michael J. Petrilli, Education Next, 2017/05/25
"After seeing a version of personalized learning in action recently," writes Michael Petrilli, "I’m worried that it may be reinforcing some of the worst aspects of standards-based, data-driven instruction. Namely: It might be encouraging a reductionist type of education that breaks learning into little bits and scraps and bytes of disparate skills, disconnected from an inspiring, coherent whole." All very well but he recommends instead to "teach a wonderful, aligned curriculum. More...

Web Developer Security Checklist
Michael O'Brien, Simple Security, Medium, 2017/05/25
In these days of multiple hacking scandals it's easy to suppose that developers should simply create more secure websites. More...

Ce document marque des avancées importantes, pose la question de l’existence de facteurs susceptibles d’induire des discriminations entre les femmes et les hommes dans les systèmes de classification et invite les négociateurs de branches, lors de l’élaboration ou de la révision des classifications, à s’interroger sur la prise en compte de l’égalité professionnelle, en proposant une méthodologie et des points de vigilance. Plus...