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21 mars 2019

Tropes vs Anita Sarkeesian: on passing off anti-feminist nonsense as critique

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tropes vs Anita Sarkeesian: on passing off anti-feminist nonsense as critique
Ian Steadman, New Statesman, 2014/09/05
Misogyny is of course not limited to video games, but it is of particular concern there, and its prevalence explains why critic Anita Sarkeesian raised $158K from more than 6,000 backers to make a series of videos on "Tropes vs. Women in Video Games". As Ian Steadman writes in this commentary, it's nothing we wouldn't expect from informed critique in any other discipline. More...

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21 mars 2019

The Windows Store is a Cesspool of Scams — Why Doesn’t Microsoft Care?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Windows Store is a Cesspool of Scams — Why Doesn’t Microsoft Care?
Chris Hoffman, How-to-Geek, 2014/09/12
I learned firsthand about the cesspool of scams around the same time this article came out, in mid-August, when I was struggling with the Windows video player app. Windows 8 didn't come with a native DVD player (something I find incredible) so I went searching for one, and found scam after scam (including the many many fake-VLC apps described in this article. More...

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21 mars 2019

OER MOOC: Use of Open Educational Resources in Classroom

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OER MOOC: Use of Open Educational Resources in Classroom
Ramesh Sharma, Slideshare, 2014/09/12
I saw a presentation advertising this MOOC. Searching for the MOOC (because the URL of the MOOC is nowhere in the presentation) I found this item on LinkedIn (stupid login probably required - why do people write articles on LinkedIn?) by Ishan Abeywardena suggesting that the purposes of MOOCs and OERs are opposed. More...

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21 mars 2019

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera
Jonathan Mayer, Web Policy, 2014/09/12
Coursera is learning yet another lesson learned long ago by real LMS providers: you can't fake your way to privacy and security; you have to have real measures in place. Stanford's Jonathan Mayer identifies three major flaws:

Any teacher can dump the entire user database, including over nine million names and email addresses.
If you are logged into your Coursera account, any website that you visit can list your course enrollments.
Coursera’s privacy-protecting user IDs don’t do much privacy protecting. More...

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21 mars 2019

Using technology in music teaching – my workflows

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Using technology in music teaching – my workflows
Simon Dring, drummer / teacher, 2014/08/13
As I read posts and articles on education technology and digital pedagogy I find myself often wishing that writers would be more reflective. In an article about, for example, the workflow involved in teaching music online, the important bits aren't the broad overviews that anyone could figure out - creating handouts on Sibelius, storing notes on box.com, typing quick notes using of Drafts. More...

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21 mars 2019

Federal Reserve Board backs up e-Literate in criticism of Brookings report on student debt

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Federal Reserve Board backs up e-Literate in criticism of Brookings report on student debt
Phil Hill, e-Literate, 2014/08/13
The 'Brookings Report' has been cited by some as a reason to doubt that student loan repayments pose a significant economic risk. The authors write, "Despite the tremendous interest in the perceived problems in the student loan market, there is relatively little empirical evidence to support the discussion." My own view is that we will see dramatic and immediate evidence of the risk should interest rates rise significantly. More...

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21 mars 2019

Active players in a network tell the story: Parsimony in modeling huge networks

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Active players in a network tell the story: Parsimony in modeling huge networks
Amit Rechavi, Sheizaf Rafaeli, First Monday, 2014/08/13
One problem with studying networks is the huge amount of data generated. But what if you just studied the active members of a network, thus reducing significanty the data that hs to be crunched? Would it be reliable? In some cases, yes. More...

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21 mars 2019

Crowd-Sourced Peer Review: Substitute or supplement for the current outdated system?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Crowd-Sourced Peer Review: Substitute or supplement for the current outdated system?
Peter Suber, London School of Economics, 2014/08/27
Many authors, writes Peter Suber, prefer to have their work reviewed in private. But this may be about to change. More...

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21 mars 2019

Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds
Alison Flood, The Guardian, 2014/08/27

So the premise here is that context has an impact on memory, and that eBooks read on the Kindle lack the appropriate context for remembering. More...

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21 mars 2019

Employers Aren’t Just Whining – the “Skills Gap” Is Real

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Employers Aren’t Just Whining – the “Skills Gap” Is Real
James Bessen, Harvard Business Review Blogs, 2014/08/27
"The idea of a 'skills gap' as identified in this and other surveys has been widely criticized," writes James Bessen, citing criticism from Peter Cappelli, Paul Krugman and the New York Times. "A worldwide scheme by thousands of business managers to manipulate public opinion seems far-fetched.," he says (naively). More...

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