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By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ubiquitous Learning Project Using Life - logging Technology in Japan
Noriko Uosaki, Bin Hou, Mengmeng Li, Hiroaki Ogata, Kosuke Mouri, Songran Liu, Educational Technology & Society, May 22, 2014
You may not think that life-logging and online learning are linked, but if you think of online learning as a ubiquitous services that learns from your every move, you can see how tightly the two may be linked. This paper presents a system called SCROLL (System for Capturing and Reusing of Learning Log). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod, May 23, 2014
From the perspective of game theory, Robert Axelrod asks, "Under what conditions will cooperation emerge in a world of egoists without central authority?" Cooperation can develop even among people with competing agendas (as in, for example, a war). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Amazing Starling Flocks Are Flying Avalanches
Brandon Keim, Wired, May 23, 2014
I'm giving a talk on MOOC research on Friday, and while I've previously documented my thoughts on research methods (or the lack of same) the question nonetheless occurred to me, "how do you research chaotic systems like MOOCs?" Analytics aren't really useful, as numbers and quantities are essentially meaningless. Then I wondered, how do scientists research murmurations? These are flocks of songbirds that act as one fluid whole, like a network. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Launch of the Open Policy Network
Open Policy Network, May 23, 2014.
The Open Policy Network has now officially launched. Here's their version of open: "we’re announcing our first project, the Institute for Open Leadership. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Workshop on Mass Collaboration - Day One
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, May 23, 2014
These are notes I took from Day One of a workshop on mass collaboration. It has been an interesting set of talks thus far; I present tomorrow, and there are some more talks Friday. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ubiquitous Learning Project Using Life - logging Technology in Japan
Noriko Uosaki, Bin Hou, Mengmeng Li, Hiroaki Ogata, Kosuke Mouri, Songran Liu, Educational Technology & Society, May 23, 2014
You may not think that life-logging and online learning are linked, but if you think of online learning as a ubiquitous services that learns from your every move, you can see how tightly the two may be linked. This paper presents a system called SCROLL (System for Capturing and Reusing of Learning Log). More...

By Cathy Davidson. Whenever I talk about the kinds of changes that will make the modern university more responsivel to the age we live in now and less rooted in the standardization, regulation, enforcement, and assessment model prized by the Taylorist Industrial Age, people think I want to throw out the baby, the bathwater, and everything else. Actually, in many situations, we have lots to build on and lots that is an easy win---even before we examining that bathwater and its baby. More...

By Cathy Davidson. Here are my preliminary welcome remarks that set some of the big themes of our livestreamed HASTAC Workshop on May 28, "Can Analysis of Big (and Sometimes Messy) Data Facilitate Collaboration? Methods, Models, Tools, Best Practices, and Next Steps in Open, Multi-Institutional, Interdisciplinary Mentoring and Collaboration Online and Onsite."
For more information:  http://www.hastac.org/events/eager-conference-may-28-2014. More...