By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ResearchGate announces $52m investment
Research Information, 2017/03/01
Many of my papers can be found in ResearchGate as the company harvested them from various open access repositories. It also sends me regular appears to upload more, which I resist, because it's hard to search and use unless you're logged in. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Visual Explanation of Gerrymandering
Randy Krum, Cool Infographics, 2017/03/01
The diagram depicted here has been out for quite some time, but it has always bothered me in a way. The central message is correct - you can gerrymander electoral districts to produce a win based on a minority vote. But how can you have 'compact but unfair' distribution? It came back to me today. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Towards insertables: Devices inside the human body
Kayla J. Heffernan, Frank Vetere, Shanton Chang, First Monday, 2017/03/01
I think I would choose some other term than 'insertable' but I would certainly agree that this represents a new device classification. An 'insertable' is a piece of technology one inserts inside one's body. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MéxicoX: Meet the MOOC Platform Funded by the Mexican Government
Dhawal Shah, Class Central, 2017/03/14
As Class Central reports, "MéxicoX, which has over one million registered learners (is) a MOOC platform backed by Mexican government. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Coursera’s Rick Levin On the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials
Jeffry R. Young, EdSurge, 2017/03/31
Interview-style article. Coursera CEO Rick Levin really does sometimes sound like he's from another culture. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Analytics isn’t a thing
Mike Sharkey, Blackboard Blog, 2017/03/14
By this headline Mike Sharkey doesn't mean that analytics doesn't exist, nor does he mean it isn't something important. Rather, he says, software is defined by the problem it solves, and 'analytics' isn't a type of problem. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The OA interviews: Philip Cohen, founder of SocArXiv
Richard Poynder, Open and Shut?, 2017/03/14
Interview with Philip Cohen, founder of the new social sciences preprint server SocArXiv. More...
Pôle emploi a publié le 19 avril 2017 les résultats de son enquête nationale sur les Besoins en Main-d’œuvre des entreprises (BMO) en 2017. Cette enquête propose des statistiques nationales mais également locales dans 412 bassins d’emploi français et pour 24 secteurs d’activité. Voir l'article...
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