By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. (Digital) Identity in a World that No Longer Forgets
Alec Couros, Open Thinking, 2015/10/15
I've been reading a lot (as has everyone else) about how politicians and others with "past transgressions dragged into the spotlight for the purposes of public judgement and shaming." On the one hand, I'm a little ssympathetic. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MacArthur Foundation Launches $25 Million Nonprofit to Inherit Education Projects
Tony Wan, EdSurge, 2015/10/14
The list of projects emcompassed by the foundation's new 'non-profit' is interesting. The first project inherits work from the 'Cities of Learning' project. LRNG “is creating a 21st century ecosystem of learning that combines in-school, out-of-school, work-based, and online learning opportunities that are visible and accessible to all.” More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. US Department of Education Opens Financial Aid to Students in ‘Bootcamps’ and Non-Institutional Programs
Tony Wan, EdSurge, 2015/10/14
The American government has announced a new program to connect alternative education initiatives such as MOOCs and EdCamps with traditional education providers. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Higher Ed Disruption in Context
Jonathan Blake Huer, EDUCAUSE Review, 2015/10/14
More on the disruption of higher education by technology. In this item Jonathan Blake Huer takes the position that disruptive technology definitely exists, but suggests that higher education may be uniquely resistant to it. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Embracing Differentiation and Reclaiming Audacity: An Interview with James Hilton
James Hilton, EDUCAUSE Review, 2015/10/14
According to interviewee James Hilton, "We're going to see growing pressure on higher education to offer increasingly differentiated paths to education." Now it should be noted that this is different from the concept of differentiated instruction. This is about institutions finding unique roles or niches for themselves. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Crypto 2.0 and DAWCs: Dawn of Decentralized Autonomous Workers Councils.
Rob Myers, Humanity+, 2015/10/14
This is related to the case of Colony, which I posted about earlier this week. Colony is one instance of whaat this article calls 'decentralized autonomous workers councils'. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Behaviourism and adaptive learning
Philip J. Kerr, Adaptive Learning in ELT, 2015/10/13
This post looks at the connection between behaviourism and adaptive learning. The author notes that both oppoents and proponents of adaptive learning draw the association. But what, exactly, are the parallels between the two? This is what this article explores. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MIT’s MOOC-based Micro-Master’s Degree: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
Jim Shimabukuro, educational technology & change, 2015/10/13
MIT continues its grand tradition of announcing a thing before it has done it - in this case, the 'micro-masters' that will be awarded partially based on MOOC credits (the first graduates from the '10-month program' will not see the light of day until 2020, according to this article). Jim Shimabukuro is "waiting for the other shoe to drop". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Algorithm objects: people are the things they do
Alex Reid, Digital Digs, 2015/10/13
This post dusts off an old concept in philosophy and presents it in shiny new computer clothes. But if it convinces people to reconsider their understanding of what makes a thing a thing, or what makes an object that type of object, then it is performing a valuable service. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Of MOOCs and Men
Akiba Covitz, Inside Higher Ed, 2015/10/13
Leaving aside the question of whether MOOCs work as educational delivery systems, the more interesting question is this: "Can MOOCs transform students as people?" Teachers can actually see this transformation in their physical classrooms, writes Akiba Covitz. More...
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