By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Centennial College to scrap Saudi training program
Toronto Star, 2016/01/22
I think all my readers agree that education should be provided to both men and women. This is true even in Saudi Arabia, which has the world's largest women-only university. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What I Learned Using Paypal
Stephen Downes, Jan 22, 2016.
Doug Belshaw wrote an item this week called 3 things I’ve learned from 200 weeks of sending out an email newsletter which made me smile and think "newbie" to myself. That's not even four years. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Network Development as Leverage for System Change
Curtis Ogden, Interaction Institute for Social Change, 2016/01/21
This is subtitled "How focusing on diversity, flow and structure in human networks can be a foundation for great change." I don't think it's quite that simple, though the item caught my eye because I think of food distribution and learning and the economy as networks. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Network Inequality
Anil Dash, Medium, 2016/01/21
Why isn't there more diversity in ranks of social media A-listers? It's because platform-builders are often advised to focus on theoir own niche first, and the A-listers "were simply talented people who were early to the platform, and often were chosen by the platform as 'featured users'" picked out of that handful of friends and family who joined the platform. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why IBM is buying Ustream: Cloud, marketing, analytics
Larry Dignan, ZD Net, 2016/01/21
I don't usually cover acquisition stories, but because live streaming is so central to education, and because options are so limited, I felt this acquisition should be noted. More...
By Jennifer Lewington Karen Birchard. Canada needs to do a better job of capitalising on the knowledge and skills of its doctoral graduates – both home-grown and recruited from abroad – to contribute to the country’s economic success. More...
By Amy Baker. Ignacio Mas De Xaxas is President of Spanish educational tours and study abroad agency, British Summer. He was prescient in seeing a lack of innovation among many language teaching providers, and talks to The PIE about the evolution he sees in business direction. More...
By Amy Baker. “The world needs more and more creative people with knowledge in all the creative areas,” says Po Ingvarsson of Your Study Advisor in Sweden, an education agent who specialises in placing his clients on “creative media” programmes. More...
By Amy Baker. English is spoken everywhere, it is the home of big brands such as IKEA and H&M, its academic culture is based on creativity and free thinking, and the country has jaw-dropping scenery: these are just some of the highlights of Sweden that are being communicated in a stylish promotional film which the Swedish Institute has produced. More...
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