By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Forgetting is Easy But So Is Reinforcement
Ryan Eudy, eLearning, 2016/12/14
One of the reasons I'm enthusiastic about practice and engagement in a discipline is that these provide natural environments for the reinforcement of learning. The need for reinforcement - or as it's sometimes called, spaced learning - is well documented. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Internet Comments Are Awful. Could They Be Awesome?
Steven Melendez, Fast Company, 2016/12/13
This article looks at some of the work in the online comment space (also known as the Great Cesspool of the Internet) offering "a mixture of technical innovation and social incentives could make online comments readable—and even engaging." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Strategic Plan 2016-18
eCampus Ontario, 2016/12/13
eCampus Ontario has just released its strategic plan for 2016-28 (21 page PDF). It will be guided by four overall goals: enhance the student learning experience, support faculty development, enhance member capacity and participation, and build eCampusOntario’s organizational capacity. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Innovate Learning Review
Innovate Learning Review, 2016/12/13
I just got a launch announcement for this zine in my email, and the logo says it's still in beta, so I'm assuming the sparse population of articles in the website will begin to fill out a bit. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. FutureLearn and Deakin University the first to offer range of degrees delivered entirely on a MOOC platform
FutureLearn, 2016/12/13
The title above is of course the title the FutureLearn used on its press release (as is my custom, my post titles follow the article titles). But they should be advised that something is a MOOC only if it is open. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Follow the chain
Doug Peterson, doug — off the record, 2016/12/20
One of the hallmarks of the copyright industry is the use of the @copy; symbol, and later on, the Creative Commons badges. The latter offers a link back to the license itself, while both reinforce the concept of copy protection. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Your Ellie – On the Primacy of Networked Knowledge
Amy Burvall, AmusED, 2016/12/12
I commented to someone this week, "For all my talk about networking, I'm not a very good networker." Maybe when you don't have it you see what it is more clearly. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2016/12/12
This is the first of Audrey Watters's series on trends in education for 2016 and it's pretty good, even if I disagree with the main metaphor. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Experience of disadvantage: The influence of identity on engagement in working class students’ educational trajectories to an elite university
Tamara Thiele, Daniel Pope, Alexander Singleton, Darlene Snape, Debbi Stanistreet, British Educational Research Journal, 2016/12/12
A willingness to work hard, an ability to resist negative social pressure, and a desire to prove sceptical parents and peers wrong - these are traits that characterized those from disadvantaged social groups who did attend a top-tier university, as compared to those who didn't. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What I Learned Recreating One Chart Using 24 Tools
Lisa Charlotte Rost, Source, 2016/12/12
This is a great example of a personal professional development project, and Lisa Charlotte Rost is not only walking away from this exercise with knowledge and skills she can bank on, she provides the rest of us with an excellent understanding of the range of data visualization tools available today. More...
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