Building a Knowmad Society in Ecuador
John W. Moravec, Education Futures, May 28, 2014

I think this is an ambitious plan and wonder how it will impact the work that follows: "The project seeks to encourage horizontalized, peer-to-peer exchange and the development of activities that will promote extending learning beyond formal education. Nine three-day workshops will cover each regional division of Ecuador. An online platform will facilitate further discussion, and the outputs from the workshops and online activities will be fed into a data analysis process that will inform the creation of a white paper on transforming Ecuadorian education for a 'knowmadic' society."

Do also read the comment that follows the article. More...

Why Unizin is a Threat to edX
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, May 27, 2014
e-Literate a week or so broke a story on Unizin, an initiative from the Indiana University designed to, as Michael Feldstein says, "run the table" on online learning technologies. In this post he adds more; it's an oddly personalized look at the initiative: "If you want to understand Unizin, you really have to understand Brad Wheeler.... Unizin has his fingerprints all over it." Well, maybe. More...

Miquel’s Pentagram Theorem
Your word for today is 'concyclic' - points that lie on the same circle. I didn't know that word yesterday, but now I do, thanks to this nice contribution to the internet from Peru. More...

Archimede: A Canadian Software Solution for Institutional Repositories
Laval University Library has released the third part of its institutional repository, Archimede. "This component covers e-prints, pre-prints, post-prints and other research publications from faculty members and research communities." A demo is available. More...

Welcome from Embrun
NRC is taking most of its web services offline in just a few minutes (so my web site may be unavailable this evening until tomorrow morning), so I have to rush. I'm still in Embrun on vacation, visting my family. More...

200 Million Smart Phones in Active Use in North America Alone
David Nagel, Campus Technology, February 28, 2014
It's the end of double-digit growth in smart phone usage in developed economies. This will lead to increasing price pressure, which makes Apple seem like the outlier. When this last happened, Apple recovered by introducing iPhones and iPads to replace their sagging computer market. More...

7 Ways To Fix Ontario's Dismal Public Education System
Malkin Dare, Huffington Post, 2018/09/12
I think that when you post a headline like this, you need at the very least to be able to show that the system is indeed dismal. This is a tall order in this case. Ontario's public education system is the envy of the world. It ranks near the top of international testing. And it prepares citizens to participate in a modern information-age society. More...