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31 mai 2016

Books are back. Only the technodazzled thought they would go away

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Books are back. Only the technodazzled thought they would go away
Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, 2016/05/16
This is just an example of some of the ridiculous assertions still being published in the traditional media. I realize that opinion columns should represent all perspectives, but the denial of reality should not be one of them. If you go into your local bookstore (if you can find a local bookstore) you'll find it selling knick-knacks, toys, food, and pretty much everything but books. More...

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31 mai 2016

Culture and effective online learning environments

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Culture and effective online learning environments
Tony Bates, online learning and distance education resources, 2016/05/16

Tony Bates has some sharp and insightful points on culture. "Culture is a critical component of any learning environment," he writes. More...

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31 mai 2016

The Battle for “Personalized Learning”

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Battle for “Personalized Learning”
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2016/05/13
I actually don't care who defines 'personalized learning' nor how they define it so long as I can keep distinguishing it from 'personal learning'. But I think it's far-fetched to say "it seems to have no specific meaning at all" and even more so to say that "it means... robot tutor in the sky" (and yes, of course Knewton was over-reaching - anyone who understands how this technology works understands that it has been over-reaching). More...

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31 mai 2016

Uber-U is Already Here

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Uber-U is Already Here
2016/05/13

Look at the elements of what we're calling here "Uber U" (quoted):

A mobile app that enables a user to connect to a central hub, which then connects student needs with available tutoring or other forms of help from around the world
A tracking system which enables fees to be charged and transferred between the student and the tutor.
Online assessments which can verify the competence and skills of the student and their identity.
A blockchain system which records all aspects of every transaction so that the credential awarding institution can verify that learning took place.

It would have been nice to be working toward this. More...

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31 mai 2016

Refusing to Be Measured

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Refusing to Be Measured
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/05/13

The battle shaping up over Academic Analytics is an interesting one. The service basically measures the publication and citation activity of some 270,000 faculty members. More...

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31 mai 2016

Schools as Knowledge-Building Organizations: Thirty Years of Design Research

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Schools as Knowledge-Building Organizations: Thirty Years of Design Research
Bodong Chen, Huang-Yao Hong, Educational Psychologist, 2016/05/13
Good overview of a complex topic. "Knowledge creation is proposed as a third 'metaphor' of learning—in addition to the learning as acquisition and participation metaphors," write the authors, and now "Knowledge Building (KB) aims to move beyond metaphor to the realization of education as a knowledge-creating enterprise." More...

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31 mai 2016

This AI has killer dance moves

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web.This AI has killer dance moves
Nora Young, CBC | Spark, 2016/05/13

Driving back from a lunch meeting I listened to this interesting program on Spark about LuminAI, a computer program that learns to dance by dancing with you. More...

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31 mai 2016

The Inconvenient Truth About Personalized Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Inconvenient Truth About Personalized Learning
Julia Freeland Fisher, Clayton Christensen Institute, 2016/05/12

I think this article captures the core problem not only with learning research but also with learning analytics: "simply asking what works stops short of the real question at the heart of a truly personalized system: what works, for which students, in what circumstances?". More...

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31 mai 2016

The DAO is alive, now let the evolution begin

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The DAO is alive, now let the evolution begin
Julian Feder, Backfeed, 2016/05/12

I spent a good part of the day exploring this (and the rest of the day exploring the awesomeness of Windows 93). What we have here is really a two-part story, the first about Ethereum, and the second about Dao itself. More...

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31 mai 2016

The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review
Jonathan P. Tennant, François Waldner, Damien C. Jacque, et al., F1000Research, 2016/05/12
This is a solid and (as the title suggests) evidence-based argument from a variety of perspectives in favour of open access. To this point I think the case has been conclusively made and this article offers an excellent summary. More...

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