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23 août 2016

When Tenure Never Comes

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. When Tenure Never Comes
Stephen Black, The Walrus, 2016/08/04
According to the (anonymous) author of this article in the Walrus, "Academia has become a high-stakes gamble—and the losers can barely afford pants." It's a fair point, but as critic Melonie Fullick writes in University Affairs, "the piece is basically written as if he is the first person to have discovered this is an issue that might be worthy of discussion.". More...

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23 août 2016

Pressure to Spend More on Poor Students

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Pressure to Spend More on Poor Students
Rick Seltzer, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/08/04
What this article shows most clearly is that there is no end to the reasons the rich can give to justify keeping their wealth to themselves. In this case, the proposal is that universities with large endowments could top their spending from endowment funds to reach the 5 percent minimum spending benchmark required of private nonprofit foundations. This money could add hundreds of millions of dollars of assistance to poor students. But, ah, no. More...

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23 août 2016

Learning needs a plan for the revolution we can already glimpse

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning needs a plan for the revolution we can already glimpse
Michael Barber, Pearson, 2016/08/04
If it were really a revolution there would be new people in charge after the dust settles rather than the same old gang. More...

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23 août 2016

Google DeepMind: The smart person's guide

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Google DeepMind: The smart person's guide
Hope Reese, Tech Republic, 2016/08/04
The real "smart person's guide" is probably an academic paper or two, not a light web read from Tech Republic, but this will probably do. More...

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23 août 2016

OER universitas

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OER universitas
OERu, 2016/08/04
Passing this along from OERu: "As a charitable organisation, YouTube has approved a Youtube for non-profits account for the OERu. We have met all the requirements to qualify for a custom url for the new channel, expect that we need 100 hundred subscribers. More...

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23 août 2016

Why ontologies are best left implicit (especially for credentials)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why ontologies are best left implicit (especially for credentials)
Doug Belshaw, Ambiguiti.es, 2016/08/02
This is exactly right: "the attempt to define what ‘exists’ within a given system is usually a conservative, essentialist move. It’s often concerned with retro-fitting new things into the current status quo, a kind of Kuhnian attempt to save what might be termed ‘normal science’." More...

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23 août 2016

Simone de Beauvoir Defends Existentialism & Her Feminist Masterpiece, The Second Sex, in Rare 1959 TV Interview

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Simone de Beauvoir Defends Existentialism & Her Feminist Masterpiece, The Second Sex, in Rare 1959 TV Interview
Dan Colman, Open Culture, 2016/08/02

It has always puzzled me what writers mean when they label a video "rare" as in this case. Is there only one copy (now a billion copies on the web)? Is it a subject that doesn't come up a lot? Whatever. Get out of your comfort zone. Watch this video. Ponder life, existence and death. More...

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23 août 2016

Profit and education aren’t mutually exclusive

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Profit and education aren’t mutually exclusive
Ian Lindquist, American Enterprise Institute, 2016/08/02
I think that the people arguing for the privatization of education are going to have to come up with better arguments. More...

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23 août 2016

Females’ Enrollment and Completion in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Massive Open Online Courses

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Females’ Enrollment and Completion in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Massive Open Online Courses
Suhang Jiang, Katerina Schenke, Jacquelynne Sue Eccles, Di Xu, Mark Warschauer, arXiv.org, 2016/08/19
According to this study, "globally MOOCs have the potential to provide learning opportunities for females in less developed countries. Findings from this study support the hypothesis that greater gender segregation may exist in more economically developed countries." Even so, only about 24% of enrollees in STEM MOOCs were women, suggesting a need to explore ways to make them more gender-inclusive. More...

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23 août 2016

3 things to get right when designing CBE programs

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 3 things to get right when designing CBE programs
Karen Yoshino, Blackboard Blog, 2016/08/19
One of the issues I have with competencies is that too often they are just a rewrapping of content knowledge in new terminology. More...

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