By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The cMOOC That Would Not Die
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, 2015/05/29
Alan Levine tells the story of the #etmooc (Educational Technology & Media massive open online course) that continues to run on its own long after it finished (it's like one of those 70s cars, I guess, with run-on). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The mass university is good for equity, but must it also be bad for learning?
Hannah Forsyth, The Conversation, 2015/05/27
This article drifts a bit but is nonetheless an insightful look at the relation between mass learning, the academic tradition of informal learning, and class or background. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Setting the PACE: Teacher Assessment Practices in a Competency-based Education System
Jonathan VanderEls, Connected Principals, 2015/05/27
Good though overly pandering discussion of the application of an accountability strategy called PACE (Performance Assessment for Competency Education) in competency-based classrooms. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Linking Creativity to Entrepreneurship
Chris Kennedy, Culture of Yes, 2015/05/27
I like the second-last slide of the presentation, which depicts the idea as "replacing 'I wish' with 'I will'." Developing a sense of agency in people is urgent and crucial. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Big Five, self-esteem, and narcissism as predictors of the topics people write about in Facebook status updates
Tara C. Marshall, Katharina Lefringhausen, Nelli Ferenczi, Personality and Individual Differences, 2015/05/27
According to this study, different personality traits can effectively predict what people will write about in their Facebook status updates. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Trends 2015: Learning and Teaching in European Universities
Andrée Sursock, European University Association, 2015/05/27
This is a survey of European higher education institutions in an effort to identify trends half-way through the 2010s finding that, in essence, "the following issues should be addressed if progress is to be continued and consolidated in future. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Analyzing the Social Web
Jennifer Golbeck, 2015/05/27
Sheri Oberman sent me this link to a set of video lectures on the topic of analyzing the open web. Topics include network basics, network structure, visualization, tie strength and trust, building networks, and more. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How IT and the Role of the CIO is Changing in the Era of Networked Organizations
Dion Hinchcliffe, On Digital Strategy, 2015/05/26
I know that this is the way we want to go. But I also know it's really difficult. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. My website in a Dropbox
Dave Winer, Liveblog, 2015/05/25
I'm not sure how this works exactly, but I've long been an aficionado of personal websites for everybody, so this idea - using some node.js code to create your own website on Dropbox - is a natural. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. PhD: is the doctoral thesis obsolete?
Paul Jump, Times Higher Education, 2015/05/25
If it were not for the requirement of a doctoral thesis, I would have a doctorate (that is literally what "All but Dissertation" means). More...
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