Mass learning must mean web-based study
Laurence Brockliss, Times Higher Education, 2016/12/02
This was pretty much the theme at the Online Educa Berlin conference: "We have all the elements needed to make online courses succeed, but institutional inertia at well-established universities stymies progress." But it's not just here; the theme seems to be lurking in the background. More...
The Value and Price of Open Online Courses
Stephen Downes, Dec 02, 2016, OEB2016, Berlin, Germany
If open online learning can be equivalent or even superior to face-to-face education, what does this mean for the value and the price of MOOCs for institutions, for learning communities, for learners and for the creation of new knowledge. More...
Higher Ed Governance for the Real World
Rachel DeLauder, SlideShare, 2016/12/01
I could probably fill this newsletter with nothing but SlideShare presentations. Don't worry - I won't - but via Eraser I found this deck that's worth a look. It's a pretty accurate capture of the reality of the web site designer in a higher ed environment - different departments have different priorities and there's no one right way to do it. More...
Facebookers 2.5 Times More Likely To Read Fake News, Millennials Least Prone
Joe Mandese, Publishers Daily, 2016/12/01
Facebook isn't worth the time you give it, of course. That's one result from this report. The other is that it is not the millennials that are conned by and clicking on fake news, it's the older generation. More...
Containers: Are they worth the hype?
IDG Connect, 2016/12/01
Not a deep article, but it will give you the basic idea of container tools such as Kubernetes from Google, Swarm from Docker, and CoreOS. Containers are a tye of virtualization. More...
The push for Asian HE internationalisation indicators
Yojana Sharma, University News, 2016/12/01
As this story notes, "UNESCO has begun work on drawing up a series of indicators on higher education internationalisation in Asia to help universities and education policy-makers in the region to develop an international outlook and promote international higher education links against a set of solid, accepted, quality benchmarks." More...
Presence, Structured Exposure and Desire
Keith Lyons, Clyde Street, 2016/09/01
I can understand the desire on the part of some (many, even) to put down the screens and engage face-to-face, uninterrupted. My sympathy with this view ends when professors - even Clay Shirky - are "moving from recommending students set aside laptops and phones to requiring it." At the point something is required the arguments in its favour become irrelevant, and it is simply the exertion of power that makes it so. More...
The Cons of Social Media for E-Learning
Tom Kuhlmann, The Rapid E-Learning Blog, 2016/09/01
The link to his ebook (73 page PDF) appears in his RSS feed, but not the web version of the same post, which is interesting. No matter, it's free and worth a look. To the post: it caught my eye when I found myself sympathizing with how difficult it is to keep up. More...
“The fun they had” or about the quality of MOOC
Patrizia Ghislandi, Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2016/08/31
I remember the Isaac Asimov story referenced in this article (16 page PDF). I credit my extensive reading of science fiction with a lot of the foresight I've been able to bring to our field, including with respect to MOOCs. More...
B.C. Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit
Tara Robertson, Sue Doner, Amanda Coolidge, BC Campus, 2016/08/31
Needless to say this is an important resources that will be appreciated by a wide public. More...
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