25 Years of EdTech – 2000: Learning objects
Martin Weller, The Ed Techie, 2018/03/26
This is a good post outlining the history of learning objects as it developed roughly 20 years ago (hatrd to believe it has been that long!). They were a good idea, but as Weller notes, they never really took off. More...
Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing
Doc Searls, Doc Searls Weblog, 2018/03/26
Two things are true. First: " Facebook makes money, in other words, by profiling us and then selling our attention to advertisers, political actors and others. These are Facebook’s true customers, whom it works hard to please." And second, "the same is true for the Times, along with every other publication that lives off adtech: tracking-based advertising." He then backs up this assertion with a detailed description of the tracking tools employed by news websites. More...
Don’t Delete Facebook. Do Something About It.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, New York Times, 2018/03/26
Readers will recall I deleted Facebook a year and a half ago, citing just the sort of newsfeed manipulation we've now all come to see as harmful. If I had been able to do something about it at the time, I would have. I have spent my time since focusing on working with and developing distributed personal learning and information networks. More...
By Jane Marshall. Major university reforms launched by Nicolas Sarkozy after his election as president in 2007 changed the higher education landscape in France for the first time in more than 20 years. French research organisations and universities have cancelled their subscriptions to Springer journals, due to an impasse in fee negotiations between the publisher and Couperin.org, a national consortium representing more than 250 academic institutions in France, writes Diana Kwon for The Scientist. More...Venezuela paid tribute last week to Martin Luther King on the 50th anniversary of his assassination when Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro inaugurated the Martin Luther King University Complex in Barquisimeto, the capital of Lara state, reports teleSUR. More...While competition at universities for locals is fierce, it has become easier for foreigners to receive a diploma at a Korean university as more institutions are seeking to make a ‘quick buck’ off overseas students, writes Kim Hyun-bin for The Korea Times. More...Innovation has reached buzzword status with higher education institutions creating innovation offices and chief innovation officer positions, launching various online and competency-based offerings, and, in some cases, answering to nervous boards of trustees regarding whether their institutions are doing enough to prepare students for an increasingly uncertain future, writes Michael Horn for Forbes. More...Under intense pressure not to raise tuition for the second consecutive year, California's public university systems have delayed votes to increase student fees and turned their attention back to the Capitol to lobby the state for more money, writes Alexei Koseff in The Sacramento Bee. More...A media and business expert has called on the federal government to consider converting about 50% of the universities in Nigeria into vocational centres to enable young people to gain skills in different vocations, writes Providence Emmanuel for Vanguard. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
