10 Things I’ve Learned (So Far) from Making a Meta-MOOC
Cathy N. Davidson, Hybrid Pedagogy, February 25, 2014
Cathy Davidson was more than a little surprised and bemused when she was arbitrarily named one of the leading figures in MOOCs by the Chronicle of Higher Education. "I've been ambivalently interested in MOOCs," she wrote at the time, "with more than a healthy degree of scepticism that the current form will persist in the future." Still, she has since then embraced her newly minted expert status with gusto, having worked since then to learn something about the subject in which she was now a designated expert. More...

REL 2014
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, February 25, 2014
We're running a MOOC en français starting next Monday on Open Educational Resources (OERs). There's a page available where you can sign up. It's not a long MOOC - 10 weeks - and it will feature a variety of interesting participants. The MOOC was created by the L’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and was developed by the Université de Moncton. I will be facilitating and a good numner of NRC people are also contibuting (see the introductory video for more).
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信息技术在线互动课程的公开平台
Unattributed, Hasso Platner Institute, February 24, 2014
The Hasso Plattner Institute has launched a Chinese-language MOOC portal. The recently launched www.openHPI.cn an educational platform offering MOOCs in Chinese language. More...

IMS Global Learning Consortium Releases Learning Tools Interoperability v2
Press Release, IMS Global, February 24, 2014
From the press release (edited to remove adjectives) : "IMS Global Learning Consortium has announced the release of the public specification of Learning Tools Interoperability v2 (LTI™ 2), which enables automated 1-click integration of a wide variety of educational apps and digital content with the educational enterprise." The press release is for some reason a PDF. More...

JAMStack
Jamstack.org, 2018/09/17
A 'JAM stack' is a website built from three major components: Javascript, which runs in your browser; APIs, which are abstracted server-side processes; and templated Markup that is built at deploy time. The key advantage is this: "When your deployment amounts to a stack of files that can be served anywhere, scaling is a matter of serving those files in more places. CDNs (Content Distribution Networks) are perfect for this, and often include scaling in all of their plans." Here are some examples. More...

Grow with Google provides opportunity for all Canadians
Sabrina Geremia, Google Official Canada Blog, 2018/09/17
According to this announcement, Google is "furthering our commitment to helping Canadians prepare for the future of work by launching Grow with Google, an initiative to help Canadians acquire the digital skills they need to grow their business or get a job." They're "partnering with Canada Learning Code to provide Canadians with free tools and training." And they're "bringing our Professional IT Support Certification Program to Canada." There's a list of events associated with the initiative, including one in Iqaluit. More...

Enhancing Phonological Awareness, Print Awareness, and Oral Language Skills in Preschool Children
Laura M. Justice, Paige C. Pullen, 2018/09/17
I admit that I've been sceptical of the hypothes.is annotation service, but this is a very nice example of an annotated PDF using gentle yellow highlighting. More...

The seven tools of causal inference with reflections on machine learning
Adrian Colyer, The Morning Paper, 2018/09/17
Adrian Colyer has found a delicious paper (The seven tools of causal inference with reflections on machine learning Pearl, CACM 2018) that works (for me, at least) on multiple levels. Here's the story: " To understand why? and to answer what if? questions, we need some kind of a causal model. More...

Defining high-quality project-based learning
Emily Liebtag, eSchool News, 2018/09/17
eSchool News articles are frustrating because there's virtually nothing to them (and then that's spread out over two pages). But in this base we have an exception, not because the article is great, but because we get some links to a warren of services and resources. More...

More than marks
Doug Peterson, doug - off the record, 2018/09/17
One of those formative experiences that you have when you're young came for me when I attended a Model Commonwealth conference at Ashbury College in Ottawa. Ashbury is a private school in a chi-chi part of the city with a reputation and tuition fee schedule that ensured I would never go there. It was clear students there had every advantage, and if you're an Ashbury student you're probably going to university. A far cry from Osgoode Township High School, out in the country. More...