By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Our Approach to Tracking and Cookies
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, 2015/03/24
Alan Levine writes, "On a personal blog, I am not finding much justification for cookies (one of my Holy Grails is a comment mechanism that eliminates comments). I really loathe blogs where the URLs are all crufted with Google UTM tracking cruft on the end. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 16 of the top 20 Research Journals Let Ad Networks Spy on Their Readers
Eric Hellman, Go To Hellman, 2015/03/24
Via Audrey Watters comes this post from Eric Hellman showing that most research journals allow advertising networks to spy on their readers. "I'm particularly concerned about the medical journals that participate in advertising networks," writes Hellman. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Making the Connection
Kim Cofino, always learning, 2015/03/24
Kim Cofino shares elements of her current keynote at the ECIS technology conference in Munich. "When we learn with technology the way we live with technology, the classroom can be just as relevant and engaging as our everyday digital interactions," she argues. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Virtually unlimited classrooms: Pedagogical practices in massive open online courses
Brit Toven-Lindsey, Robert A. Rhoads, Jennifer Berdan Lozano, Internet, Higher Education, 2015/03/24
There are days I wish I had focused more on making gRSShopper a commercial product. Then it would be more widely used and would be included in studies like this which look at the pedagogies employed by different MOOC platforms. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Doxxing to Defend Student Privacy
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2015/03/23
Bob Braun's website was inaccessible when I posted the story about Pearson's spying on schoolchildren last week, but it's available again and Audrey Watters raises some troubling questions about some of the follow-up coverage. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What If Education Reform Got It All Wrong in the First Place?
Bill Raden, Pacific Standard, 2015/03/23
According to this article, "That’s the conclusion of a growing number of researchers who argue that 30 years of test scores have not measured a decline in public schools, but are rather a metric of the country’s child poverty and the broadening divide of income inequality." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with 'topics' as country reforms its education system
Richard Garner, The Independent, 2015/03/23
Even Finnish parents and teachers are protesting the change, we are told. But according to this article, students are already seeing benefits from the redefinition of learning from classes to 'phenomena'. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Netflix and education
Alastair Creelman, The corridor of uncertainty, 2015/03/23
A lot of people have talked about 'the Netflix of learning'. But it's not that easy. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Riipen: The LinkedIn for students
Kirsten Armour, VancityBuzz, 2015/03/23
I thought the LinkedIn for students was Facebook - but I guess times have changed. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Blogger's Springtime
Stephen Downes, Mar 21, 2015, Spring Blog Festival, Online, via WizIQ
In this presentation I talk about the practice of blogging in a new and complex media environment. Contrary to what may be popular belief, blogging is not dead, nor even slowing down, though attention has shifted away from the form to new types of social media. But it is part of a much larger content ecosystem which as a whole is experiencing a golden age, and blogging is a major part of that. I show people how I blog, how I use blogs, and how I am encouraging student use of blogs in MOOCs.
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