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13 décembre 2018

Brain Bucks

Brain Bucks
Steve Collis, Happy Steve, January 10, 2013.
Steve Collis comes up with the term 'brain bucks' to help people prioritize how they 'spend' their mental life. It's an interesting idea, but I actually do it the other way around in my own life - I think of money not as an objective but in terms of how much of my precious mental attention it represents. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Planet Four

Planet Four
Various Authors, Website, January 10, 2013.
This is really interesting. Now that we have some really superb high resolution photos of the Martian surface we have the immense task of mapping an entire planet. This website crowdsources the job. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Paying for Proof

Paying for Proof
Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed, January 9, 2013.

Coursera has announced a system for verifying identities and paying for credentials for completing open online courses, according to reports from the Chronicle and Inside Higher Ed. See also: TechCrunch, Steve Krause. The verification system will involve having the student send a webcam photo of his or her identity document; there was also some discussion of typing style recognition. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Free-Textbook Group Will Sell Its E-Books on Chegg, for a Small Fee

Free-Textbook Group Will Sell Its E-Books on Chegg, for a Small Fee
Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 9, 2013.

I'm not sure what the problem is, but according to this Chronicle report, "some producers of free e-textbooks have had trouble persuading professors to adopt them." It's the sort of story the Chronicle loves. So they report with glee "one backer of 'open-source textbooks' has decided to sell its titles on Chegg, an online textbook retailer, for a small fee in hopes of reaching a wider audience." I'm not sure exactly how charging money will increase readership. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Quick review of the Larnaca Learning Design Declaration

Quick review of the Larnaca Learning Design Declaration
Sheila MacNeill, Sheila’s work blog, January 9, 2013.
OK, I have to admit, my first thought on encountering this was to wonder why there would need to be a declaration on learning design. But the Larnaca Declaration is just that (though you'll need to click on a link to an MS-Word document to read it (PDF here)). It suggests an analogy by which we should understand learning design: musical notation. More...

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13 décembre 2018

The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching

The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching
Russell L. Ackoff and Daniel Greenberg, Knowledge@Wharton, January 6, 2013.

It's probably useful to see what the readers of Knowledge@Wharton (Law and Public Policy) are learning about education, and while on the one hand it is good to see a column that reports that "in most schools, memorization is mistaken for learning" and "the objective of education is learning, not teaching," the column itself is weak. More...

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13 décembre 2018

A Cost Analysis of the Open Course Library

A Cost Analysis of the Open Course Library
Nicole Allen, Student PIRGs, January 6, 2013.
Reporting showing that the use of open course materials would save students in Washington state Community and Technical Colleges $1.26 million during the 2011-2012 school year. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Outlook for online learning in 2013: online learning comes of age

Outlook for online learning in 2013: online learning comes of age
Tony Bates, Online Learning and Distance Education Resources, January 7, 2013.

As promised, Tony Bates has tallied a number of predictions for 2013 and beyond, each with probabilities attached. Some of them are vague and probably ("online learning starts to become a core activity", "hybrid learning... which I mean the re-design of courses to integrate the best of online and campus-based teaching"), some of them are unsuprising ("the evolution of MOOCs: the trough of disillusionment") and some of them are pretty niche ("online learning increasingly appearing as strategic initiatives within institutional plans"). More...

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13 décembre 2018

Growth for Online Learning

Growth for Online Learning
Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, January 8, 2013.
Online learning has yet to show a plateau, according to the 2012 iteration of the Babson Survey Research Group's annual Survey of Online Learning. According to the study, more than 30 percent of all enrollments were in online classes (see diagram, above). The same survey reviews attitudes regading MOOCs, generally displaying divided opinions. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Virtual Tours of Online Communities as Learning Journeys

Virtual Tours of Online Communities as Learning Journeys
Nancy White, Full Circle Associates, January 8, 2013.
Way back in the early days of the web, there was this thing called a 'web tour'. It stemmed from the idea that while a website would typically be an ordered liust of pages, a 'tour' could offer readers an alternative route through the pages or a subset of the pages. Later, the idea if a 'web tour' migrated to synchronous online sessions, where a session leader might lead participants through a series of sites. More...

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