Repositories Listing
From the ADL News Report: "The Academic ADL Co-Lab has released its learning repository database. This database, designed for those interested the internal policies of learning repository projects themselves, allows investigators to search for projects that use specific standards or have stated policies concerning material submission and review." The page will demand a login - ignore it; just click 'cancel' and continue on through. More...
By . The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) put out a paper on Tuesday entitled Out of the Shadows: Experiences of Contract Academic Staff, which mostly presents data on a survey conducted by the association last year. While the intentions might have been good, the resulting data – which is already getting lots of media play – needs to be taken with a grain of salt. And one claim in particular – that the number of sessional faculty has soared by 79% in the past decade – needs to be debunked immediately. More...
By Phil Hill. According to their filing, Chegg is notifying current and former users starting today, but as yet there has been no public notification. I do not know why it took the company a full week for notifications to begin, but I suspect it is due to internal investigations to fully understand the nature of the breach - what was compromised and what was not. More...
The modern, public university is arguably facing more strain than ever before—both from outside and inside its walls. Marked by new competitors and declining funding, the state of today’s higher-ed marketplace has driven more public universities to turn to technology as a holy grail for readying them to compete. More...
Key Concepts in a Data-Centric Learning Stack
Yet Analytics, 2018/08/10
This is an overview article from Yet Analytics (which has a vested interest in xAPI and related technologies) introducing the major elements of the analytics workflow: the Learning Record Provider (LRP), Learning Record Store (LRS) and Learning Record Consumer(LRC). More...
Announcing: Discover Data
Mike Bryant, Discovery Education, 2018/08/07
This article introduces teachers to Discovery's new resources about learning with data. It's pretty basic at this level, and the materials are basically low-tech - some PDF guides along with pre- and post-activity surveys. But I'm including it here because I think the idea of connecting data (or, at least, the process of going out and gathering data for yourself) and education is an important one. The Discover Data resources are here. More...
By Doug Lederman. Unizin, a consortium of 25 universities that focuses on enhancing digital teaching and learning, announced on Tuesday that it has selected new leaders and released a platform to collect, standardize and securely store key data about learning and student success. More...
Réalisée par l’Insee depuis 1950, l’Enquête emploi est la seule source de données fournissant une mesure des concepts d’activité, chômage, emploi et inactivité tels qu’ils sont définis par le Bureau international du travail (BIT).
Cette enquête vise à observer à la fois de manière structurelle et conjoncturelle la situation des personnes sur le marché du travail. L’enquête est réalisée en continu, toutes les semaines de l’année. Plus...
Transforming Metadata
This PowerPoint presentation, delivered at the ADL Repositories Summit a couple of weeks ago, surveys the process used by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to convert learning object metadata from the format harvested from the NSDL repository (using Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvesting, in Dublin Core format) to its own version of the IEEE Learning Object Metadata format. More...
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