JISC, 2018/01/05
Jisc has done a lot of useful things over the years. This isn't one of them. The enterprise is to "publish interactive dashboards of rankings and measures drawn from their higher education (HE) league tables." The use of thee term 'league tables' suggests that universities are like football teams, locked in struggle against each other. More...
Libraries and Librarians Aren't About to Disappear
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, 2018/01/05
This post is a response to recent reports that "libraries and archives to be among the fastest-declining industries in America." At frist glance the numbers are significant. "Employment change in libraries and archives from 2007 to 2016 was -80.3 percent, with a current employment total of 33,033." But is the decline that dramatic. More...
What’s behind the Intel design flaw forcing numerous patches?
Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 2018/01/05
This is probably the best technical description of the newly-discovered security problem in Intel chips ('newly discovered' in this case meaning 'discovered in November'). The problem has to do with the "speculative execution" of code by the chips. More...
Taking stock of 2017: What we learned about personalized learning
Luis Flores, Christensen Institute, 2018/01/04
This post reads like a focused issue of OLWeekly, so naturally I like the format. It offers a dozen or so links from different sources, each with a capsule description, on topics related to personalized learnig, and specifically: Competency-based education, Online and blended learning, Personalized learning, and Preparing students for the future. More...
Beyond the Horizon Report: towards a new project
Bryan Alexander, 2018/01/04
Beyond the Horizon Report, writes Bryan Alexander, "’d like to kick off a process that could lead to a prototype or even a new publication." This of course is not to be confused with the existing Horizon project or report in any way, since these are in bankruptcy court, and through some magical process could be harmed by people talking about what should be done. More...
Global HR Trends are Affecting Corporate Learning: It’s time that HR and Learning came closer!
Arunima Majumdar, G-Cube Blog, 2018/01/04
This short article summarizes trends more than it makes the case for moving HR and Ldarning closer together. But the trends are useful. Along with talent acquisition, writes Arunima Majumdar, talent management is a priority, and this means in-house skills development. More...
How our skills support and shape our career
Steven Forth, TeamFit, 2018/01/04
To find the really interesting bit you have to read to the bottom and click on the link at the very end (or just click it here, but why skip the prequel?). Here's the scenario: "we asked a number of people at TeamFit and our sister company Ibbaka to reflect on their careers and aspirations." the result is a series of mind maps of "how one thinks about career success will shape how one thinks about skills." OK, so far as it goes. More...
People Are Not Talking About Machine Learning Clickbait and Misinformation Nearly Enough
Mike Caulfield, Hapgood, 2018/01/03
"In short," writes Mike Caulfield, "the social media audience becomes one big training pool for your clickbait or disinfo machine." True. But even without social media, there will be no shortage of data for the machines. Consider, for example, the content from our learning management systems. Or our loyalty card programs. Or the telephone listings. More...
A news site gave would-be commenters a quiz. Here’s what happened.
2018/01/03
The Columbia Journalism Review is not above writing click-bait headlines, it seems (rememeber when clickbait headlines were the biggest problems in social media?). The idea has merit on first glance: make sure people have read the story before they can comment by asking them simple questions about what the story said. More...
Online Markdown Converter For Open Educational Resources
George Williams, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/01/03
The story here (buried in the third and last paragraph of this short article) is that "the University of Oklahoma Libraries has made available a Pandoc-based, web-hosted, open-source Markdown Converter." The idea behind 'markdown' is that it's a way of writing text that can be formatten (into bold, paragraphs, lists, etc) without the use of computing code. More...
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