By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mozilla is Doing a Hack Job on Open Badges
Kerri Lemoie, Medium, 2015/11/09
Criticism of the Mozilla Open Badges project. Kerri Lemoie argues that Mozilla doesn't even have any staff assigned to the project and disbanded the team more than a years ago. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The digital revolution in higher education has already happened. No one noticed.
Clay Shirky, 2015/11/09
Clay Skirky's reasoning is positively weird: "The gap between the conversation about college and its reality exists because the people who drive that conversation — you and me and our friends — mostly talk about elite schools." Um, no. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Case for Free Access to Higher Education
David Wheeler, Academica, 2015/11/06
It's always nice to read of an executive officer at a Canadian educational institution calling for free and open access to learning. It's also far too rare. But here we have just such an instance. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Adjust course fees so that those who will earn more will pay more
Dean Machin, Times Higher Education, 2015/11/06
I've heard this silly argument about tuition fees on numerous occasions before, and the practice - known as 'differential fees' or a 'differential fee structure' - is actually in place in some colleges and universities. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The user as network
Karen E.C. Levy, First Monday, 2015/11/06
Karen Levy argues for "conceptualizing users as networks: as constellations of power relations and institutional entanglements, mediated through technologies." She argues that a model regarding people merely as users or non-users is too simplistic (I have to agree). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Top Six Things Organizations Must Do to Enable Emergent Learning
Sahana Chattopadhyay, ID and Other Reflections, 2015/11/05
I've cited Sahana Chattopadhyay with approval frequently in the past, but this article needs correction. It represents a corruption of the term 'emergent learning' and is a step backward toward more traditional (and dysfunctional) forms of learning. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The argument for slowing down…
Gráinne Conole, e4innovation.com, 2015/11/05
I've never been a fan of the slow food movement. Not because I like fast food - I have never been a fan - but because lingering over food has always struck me as self-centered and inefficient. Also, I have a microwave. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rosedale: I was wrong with Second Life
Lukemary Slade, MondiVirtuali.it, 2015/11/05
Virtual reality continues to have believers, and at some point I expect it to become much more significant. This post features a summary of a talk by Philip Rosedale, who founded Second Life. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The big decision: Which university is for you?
Ash Kelly, Globe, Mail, 2015/11/05
The Globe and Mail ranking universities is a bit like Donald Trump ranking cars: they've been in one once, but they don't really know how they work nor how well they perform on a day-to-day basis. But oh my, they have opinions. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mozilla Firefox
Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 2015/11/05
I haven't looked at the Browser Wars for a long time now because there really hasn't been any point, but today there's as much diversity in browser choices as there has ever been, so the topic is worth a visit. My browser of choice continues to be Firefox, and it was actually a bit surprising to me that it won this comparison. More...
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