By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Installing Mautic with PHP7-FPM on Docker, Nginx, and MariaDB on Ubuntu 16.04
Dave Lane, OERu Tech, 2017/03/30
This is pretty interesting. Ignore the tech, unless you enjoy that, and focus on what it does. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Study Recommends Key Actions to Improve Early Childhood Education in Mongolia
Rabia Ali, Moukim Temourov, Takiko Igarashi, World Bank, 2017/03/30
There's a lot of interesting reading in this World Bank study on early childhood education (ECE) in Mongolia (113 page PDF). The summary article doesn't do it justice. Mongolia has made great strides in recent years, but gaps remain, especially among poorer and more rural populations. In rural communities, access is provided through a ger-kindergarten (using a traditional yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger (Mongolian)). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Faculty Perceptions about Teaching Online: Exploring the Literature Using the Technology Acceptance Model as an Organizing Framework
Nancy Pope Wingo, Nataliya V. Ivankova, Jacqueline A. Moss, online learning, 2017/03/30
This is a good article that does exactly what the title promises. It is a survey article looking at a number of research studies on faculty use of technology from the perspective of the technology acceptance model (TAM). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ‘Who shared it?’: How Americans decide what news to trust on social media
Tom Rosenstiel, et.al., Amercial Press Institute, 2017/03/30
According to this report (13 page PDF) "when Americans encounter news on social media, how much they trust the content is determined less by who creates the news than by who shares it." How much they engage with it (for example, by passing it along) also depends more on who shares it. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How I Let Disney Track My Every Move
Adam Clark Estes, Gizmodo, 2017/03/30
The MagicBand is a bracelet Disney hands out to hotel and resort guests. It gives you access to rides, automatically takes photos, and helps them run the park. It may seem creepy, but it’s very convenient. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. AAUP Issues Report On Adjunct Philosophy Professor Allegedly Fired For High Standards
Justin W., Daily Nous, 2017/03/29
Though the post is about academic freedom, there's an interesting perspective about attitudes here. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Apple’s Augmented Reality Debut Will Look More Like “Pokémon” Than Magic Leap
Mark Sullivan, Fast Company, 2017/03/29
This article is mostly speculative at this point. The idea is that Apple is working on augmented reality, but that an eyepiece (think Google Glass) isn't in the works yet. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Netflix's anti-piracy team aims to make stealing content uncool
Sophia Harris, CBC News, 2017/03/29
I never actually did this (honestly!) but it was a thing when I was young to sneak into movie theatres. One person would buy a ticket and then open the emergency exit for others. Or you'd sneak under the ticket window. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ten Years on the Twitter
James Clay, e-Learning Stuff, 2017/03/29
I joined Twitter as @Downes in July, 2007. Since then I've accumulated 7,217 tweets and 8902 followers. I have a second account, @OLDaily, for these posts. 7,590 tweets and 5,413 followers. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The AI Misinformation Epidemic
Zachary C. Lipton, Approximately Correct, 2017/03/29
This ios the first of what promises to be a series of posts on what the author calls the 'misinformation epidemic' in AI. Here are the major sorts of misinformation:
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