19 avril 2016
Going further
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Going further
Doug Peterson, doug — off the record, 2016/04/05
Doug peterson says there should be pushback on the post What does the fox say? More...
19 avril 2016
Navigating the Emotional Side of a Career Transition
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Navigating the Emotional Side of a Career Transition
Ron Ashkenas, Harvard Business Review, 2016/04/05
My time as the leader of the Learning and Performance Support Systems program has come to an end, and while I am still employed by NRC, I find myself a bit adrift at the moment. Which is natural. "People want to be respected and honored for who they are, and one’s chosen career is a big part of that. More...
19 avril 2016
Apple 'abandons' QuickTime on Windows
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Apple 'abandons' QuickTime on Windows
BBC, 2016/04/15
Thank goodness. Now if we could only get Apple to 'abandon' Safari on Windows (and everywhere else). Then all those annoying update messages for products I never use would stop. More...
19 avril 2016
I Don't Care About Your Life
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. I Don't Care About Your Life
Jason Guriel, The Walrus, 2016/04/15
I realize that you don't care about my life (at least, not nearly as much as I care about it). That's OK, I can deal with that. But when I was taking religious studies courses in the 1980s I first encountered the 'confessional' course, where we were studying religion not only as a phenomenon but also as an expression of personal faith. More...
19 avril 2016
20 Videos and a Poster Explaining Logical Fallacies
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 20 Videos and a Poster Explaining Logical Fallacies
Richard Byrne, Free Technology for Teachers, 2016/04/15
I have it in mind to one day update my logical fallacies site and to incorporate into an online course. Meanwhile, there's this: "Your Logical Fallacy Is is a website that provides short explanations and examples of twenty-four common logical fallacies. More...
19 avril 2016
Equal Promises, Unequal Experiences
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Equal Promises, Unequal Experiences
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/04/15
Students from an online Master's degree course are suing because "the program doesn’t live up to its promise of being designed for an online setting and not a physical classroom." It's a textbook case of how not to deliver online instruction. More...
19 avril 2016
OER as a participatory activity
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OER as a participatory activity
Sean Connor, Saylor, 2016/04/15
Saylor writes and endorses the recent Creative Commons post on OER as a participatory activity. But it adds, "Saylor Academy would absolutely benefit from infrastructure that would encourage us, our students, our partners, and members of the wider open community to really create the open content we need from the open content that we have." Of course, I've spent my entire career working toward this. More...
19 avril 2016
In Britain, the Wealthy Get Wealthier
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. In Britain, the Wealthy Get Wealthier
John Morgan, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/04/14
More evidence for a proposition that has been noted in this newsletter before, specifically, that equality of outcomes is not achieved simply by providing access to the same curriculum. The purpose of elite institutions of higher education is to allow the wealthy to create insider networks, and these appear to freeze out the non-wealthy, even those who attend these institutions. More...
19 avril 2016
Six Ways to Support Personalized Learning
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Six Ways to Support Personalized Learning
Gregory Dobbin, EDUCAUSE Review, 2016/04/14
This is a survey from the responses from the winners of Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) grants last year.
- Focus on Differing Levels of Preparation
- Strengthen Student Engagement
- Accommodate Different Goals and Styles
- Rethink Institutional Structures and Support
- Take Advantage of Appropriate Technologies
- Build Trust
All of these seem reasonable - who would object. More...
19 avril 2016
Active OER: Beyond open licensing policies
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Active OER: Beyond open licensing policies
Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, 2016/04/14
Here is the point of the post in a nutshell: "If we agree that empowerment and engagement of educators and learners is an important goal, we need to implement active policies that build on and support the potential ensured by passive ones," policies such as incentives and infrastructure (but let's be honest: mostly incentives). More...
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