Dispelling the misconceptions of online education
Jeff Vaklance, Barbara Wilson-Keates, University Affairs, 2018/06/26

This is a back-and-forth between Athabasca University and University Affairs magazine. More...

Being rational all the time isn’t going to do you any favors
Zat Rana, Quartz, 2018/06/26
This is a quick summary of some recent research from Lisa Feldman Barrett on emotions. According to Barrett, there aren't distinct emotions (like anger, sadness or happiness). More...

OpenAI built gaming bots that can work as a team with inhuman precision
Dave Gershgorn, Quartz, 2018/06/26

The set of five AIs had a lot of time to practice, and this made all the difference. More...

ISTE Wants to Be More Than Just a Conference. Learn How They Are Expanding.
Jenny Abamu, EdSurge, 2018/06/26
ISTE - the International Society for Technology in Education - is the largest ed tech conference in the United States, and this week it has announced its intention to become something more. More...

It’s Not Just Code, It’s a Network
Anil Dash, Glitch, Medium, 2018/06/26
Why would Microsoft buy GitHub? Anil Dash looks at "the cost of acquiring developers for a platform" as one explanation and suggests that "the far greater value comes from radically increasing the number of people who can create software, while improving the quality of software." Both are good reasons but my explanation is a bit different. More...

To Learn, Stop Believing Everything You Think
Tim Rahschulte, Chief Learning Officer, 2018/06/26
This is a really good piece of advice that, so far as I know, doesn't show up in a traditional educational curriculum anywhere. The advice is simple: don't believe everything you think. That voice inside your head sometimes lies, sometimes fools itself, and is sometimes simply wrong. More...

Designing Learning Experiences in an Evidence-Informed Way
Mirjam Neelen, Paul A. Kirschner, 3-Star Learning Experiences, 2018/06/26
Paul A. Kirschner and Mirjam Neelen aren't too shy to accuse people of being eduquacks, and they base this assessment on their own fidelity to what they call "evidence-informed learning design". They're not wrong, but they're not exactly right either. More...

What skills improve pattern recognition?
Steven Forth, TeamFit, 2018/06/26

Knowledge is recognition, but what leads to greater skill in recognition. This post considers that question. More...

The End Of The Internet As We Know It…Could It Happen?
Deirdre O’Donnell, Evolving Science, 2018/06/25
Over the years news media publishers in Europe have tried repeatedly to end the practice of people linking to their stories. Their reasoning (I think) is that readers should come to the newspaper websites directly. Currently legislation being proposed is the closest yet to accomplishing this. More...

Digital learning: distraction or default for the future?
Microsoft Australia Education, 2018/06/25
This post is about the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in the classroom. The article references a survey from Barnes and Noble College saying "over 51% of students learn best through active participation, while only 12% are able to listen and learn well." It doesn't follow, though, that being able to "turn and study a model to their heart’s content" results in better learning. More...