By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money
Aimee Groth, Quartz, 2016/06/13
This is not universally true, of course. Sometimes they have other less legal means. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Second Power of Open
David Wiley, iterating toward openness, 2016/06/13
The second power of open, says David Wiley, is the use of open materials to support a better pedagogy. "Perhaps we should start talking about open pedagogy as the 'second power of open,'" he writes. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Keeping MOOCs open—platforms vs. protocols
Dave Weinberger, Joho the Blog, 2016/06/13
It appears to be a fuss about nothing - or maybe it was a trial balloon - but though there are reports that Coursera is clamping down on free access to courses, there's no real evidence to back that up. Nonetheless, Dave Weinberger is sounding a caution. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Student visa fraud: universities and governments ‘must be proactive’
Ellie Bothwell, Times Higher Education, 2016/06/13
I don't think Canada needs any lessons on supposed 'visa fraud' from the Times of London, participarly when the only evidence offered seems to be the way we run our decentralized education system. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Plans vs. Planning
Michael Caulfield, Hapgood, 2016/06/13
Good post on an essential difference. Quoting none other than Richard Nixon. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 1,000+ Learning & Performance Tools
Jane Hart, Learning in the Modern Workplace, 2016/06/07
I'm not really sure how to process this, but I have to admit that this list of 1,000 learning and performance tools is impressive. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. No LMS - an argument for when your institution comes to reviewing their Learning Management System
Leigh Blackall, 2016/06/07
I'm not sure it's possible to actually make the argument stick - after all, the LMS automatically enters grades for you into the student record system, and who can do away with that? - but I think there are aspects to the no-LMS argument that should be considered. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Issues in Research, Design, and Development of Personal Learning Environments
Trey Martindale, Michael Dowdy, Emergence, Innovation in Digital Learning: Foundations, 2016/06/07
I like this paper and it speaks to a lot of the ideas and issues surrounding the concept of the personal learning environment (PLE) but many of the references are from 2006, illustrating the mire in which the concept has become embedded. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is Big Data Still a Thing? (The 2016 Big Data Landscape)
Matt Turck, 2016/06/21
I'm linking to this mostly so I have a reference to the image, which is the latest landscape for big data. If you're working in data and analytics you're working in a very crowded field. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Towards the new caste system: looking back at The New Digital Age
Bryan Alexander, 2016/06/21
Bryan Alexander offers a lukewarm review for this forward-looking book by Google's Jared Cohen and Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age. In a way, he says, the book is more about politics than technology. More...
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