By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Scientists achieve critical steps to building first practical quantum computer
Unattributed, Phys.org, 2015/05/01
This is pretty interesting. To create a stable quantum computer, you have to simultaneously detect for two types of error, bit-flip and phase-flip errors. This article describes a quantum computer that can detect both simultaneously. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Turnitin Announces Availability of Turnitin Scoring Engine for Automated Writing Assessment
Press Release, Turnitin, 2015/04/30
So what can you do if you have a large database of essays that schools have forced students to contribute in order to prevent plagiarism? Well if you're TurnItIn you can use the database to create an automated essay grading system (one which presumably also detects plagiarism). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Programming an Essential Literacy for the Future
Charlie Chung, Class Centreal, 2015/04/27
Coursera is highlighting a new course on programming in Python. One wonders why the course doesn't consist of a single page containing a link to Codeacademy. But the big news here is that they've landed Charles Severance (“Dr. Chuck”) of the University of Michigan. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Patient Zero of the selfie age: Why JenniCam abandoned her digital life
Emma Reynolds, News.com.au, 2015/04/21
The subtext of this item is that there is something wrong with sharing your life online, because after all the original "cam girl", Jennifer Ringley of JenniCan, gave it up after seven years and not has no social networking presence at all. More...
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a nonprofit collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh that offers advanced supercomputing infrastructure for solving large-scale, data-intensive problems in science and engineering, is using Comcast Business Ethernet for secure, private network connections to eight associated colleges and universities. More...
By Steven Mintz. Textbooks evoke a great deal of ambivalence among instructors. Their expense and back-breaking heft are two sources of concern. More troubling is their tone – too often bland and tedious; their use of language – generally dreary and uninspired; and their content – frequently generic and excessively detailed. These are not books to be read for pleasure. They do not provoke, delight, or inspire. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. The American Historical Association will encourage “reciprocal responsibility” to advance digital scholarship in the discipline, according to draft guidelines the professional organization released on how to evaluate such work for tenure and review purposes. Read more...
A new, comprehensive metastudy of the role technology plays in higher education urges universities of tomorrow to capitalize on technologies that effectively support student learning, to embrace blended learning environments, and to customize degree programs to serve the needs of students in a digital age. Read more...
The research was contextualized in a sample of 419 students from three Spanish public universities. Through a quantitative methodology, we identified the factors and variables that condition and favor the use of digital mobile devices in university studies. The factor-based structure enabled a holistic view of ICT innovation in universities across three key areas: Teaching model (face-to-face/distance), area of study, and generic competencies. More...
The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when everyone,and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. More...
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