By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Unbundling Versus Designing Faculty Roles
Adrianna Kezar, Sean Gehrke, Daniel Maxey, American Council on Education, Jul 22, 2014
Those who follow OLDaily will recall that I've written before on what may be called the 'unbundling' of faculty roles (article, presentation). In my presentations I offer some 27 roles that could be mixed and matched in different configurations. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Kindle Unlimited
Maria Bustillos, The Awl, Jul 22, 2014
Normally I use the article title for my own titles, but in this case I've edited it due to the language. So consider this a language warning. That said, I agree with the tome of the article, which asserts in summary that Kindle will now be charging $10 per month for access to six hundred thousand books in its library. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rethinking the nature of inequality and labor: An essay review of Affective Equality
Eleni Schirmer, Michael W. Apple, education review, Jul 22, 2014
Good review of the book Affective Equality posing the central question, "Have the implemented educational reform policies mis-appraised the requirements of equality itself?" There are multiple "social systems that structure both equality and inequality: economic, political, cultural, and, affective." And example of this (not mentioned in the review) are parental expectations of their children. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Desire2Wha?
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, Jul 22, 2014
This will be (I hope) the last of the posts on D2L's name change. This post from Michael Feldstein essentially expresses incredulity at the verbiage and scepticism about the business plan (to the point of questioning one of D2L's recent acquisitions). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Blackboard’s Big News that Nobody Noticed
Michael Feldstein, e-Loterate, Jul 22, 2014
Reporting from the Blackboard conference, Michael Feldstein writes, "the big corporate keynote had to be one of the strangest I’ve ever seen." High praise! After a long intro, it became (says Feldstein) "a carpet bombing run of announcements—a series of explosions that were over by the time you realized that they had started, leaving you to wonder what the heck had just happened." (What would education be in the United States without endless military analogies?) So what are the changes. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Bitcoins of Learning?
Unknown, Wikispaces, Jul 22, 2014
There isn't time (nor bandwidth in what has become terrible airport lounge wifi over the years) but I think that the concept of a bitcoin for learning is a really bad idea. I get the concept - students are looking for more than just grades; they want a learning 'currency' they can take with them to the workplace. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What’s the media got to do with education? The freedom to listen, speak and learn
Annika Burgess, eLearning Africa News Portal, Jul 22, 2014
The headline in the title of this post I think neatly ties together the link between media and education (and to a large degree why they are both interesting to me). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. My Very Own Voyant Workshop
Geoffrey Rockwell, Theoreti.ca, Jul 21, 2014
What's interesting about this item - aside from the fact that you can play with it - is that it signifies how people will be able to run their own analytics tools themselves on their own servers. Here's the item text: "a workshop on My Very Own Voyant. The workshop focused on how to run VoyantServer on your local machine. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sources
Dan Leeman, The Edublogger, Jul 21, 2014
This is exactly what the title says it is. Except, maybe it's not the ultimate list - maybe the penultimate? - but it's the best I've seen. Need free images? Try this site. And if you need to edit images online (maybe you're stuck with a Mac or iPhone) then this post reviews three top image editing sites. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes on the Personal Learning Environment at the LSE
Mark Johnson, Improvisation Blog, Jul 21, 2014
There's enough in this post to catch my eye for its different perspective (and yes, a perspective I don't agree with):
All good stuff. More...
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