By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Introducing Trapit Education!
Ethan Siegal, The Daily Trap, October 28, 2012.
Ethan Siegal sent me this link and I've been using Trapit for a few days now. It has a few quirks (clicking the 'x' removes the article, not the Trapit frame the way other link sites function) but the interface is elegant and it seems to be finding me resources I mind not otherwise see. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. WeMo: a Wonderful Way to add Visual Cues to Organize Your Life
Vicki A. Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog, November 2, 2012
Yesterday I talked about FunF, which connects data from a variety of different sources to your information landscape. Today I link to this discussion from Vicki Davis of WeMo, which is a set of devices and an application to let you manage your personal appliances. Basically, weMo provides a plug-in switch controlled remotely by the application. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Privacy Icons Legal Hackathon
Unattributed, Center for Internet and Society, November 2, 2012.
Related to the link below, we are slowly moving from a world in which information is mostly communicated by text to a world in which we use a much richer set of audio and visual cues. As mentioned in the article below, controls for different appliances are represented visually. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Udacity snags $15M to continue its assault on higher education
Paul Sloan, CNet News.com, October 28, 2012.
From CNet News.com: "Udacity just raised $15 million in a financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz and existing investors Charles River Ventures and longtime entrepreneur Steve Blank All told, the company has raised $21.1 million. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Free Cloud LMS: Opportunity, Threat or Irrelevance?
Kris Roger, ALT Online Newsletter, November 1, 2012.
Goof ov erview of two cloud-based LMSs, Coursekit (recently renamed ‘Lore’) and Instructure Canvas, launched in 2011. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning Management Systems and MOOCs
George Siemens, xED Book, November 1, 2012.
George Siemens points to a couple of developments underlining the provision of MOOCs in the cloud. 1. Instructure launches Canvas Network (see also) (and also) (and also). And 2. Blackboard is having early success in getting universities to adopt its CourseSites service. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. FunF
Alexander Hayes, Uberveillance, November 1, 2012.
If you're wondering what comes after MOOCs, it includes something like this ("The Funf Open Sensing Framework is an extensible sensing and data processing framework for mobile devices, developed at the MIT Media Lab. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. L'apprentissage ouvert et les affaires
Stephen Downes, November 1, 2012, Forum sur l'économie du savoir, Edmunston, via Google Hangout
Talk given en français on the subject of open learning, MOOCs and the lessons for small and medium businesses. Full text of the talk is available here. Sadly, the video shows only the remote audience, not the speaker and slides.
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Student characteristics predict university graduation odds
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Education Research Report, August 2, 2013
Sometimes the state of research in education depresses me. Other times it makes me angry. What, for example, are we to make of this? "Tim Gramling, LP.D., conducted research on characteristics of more than 2,500 students from the full population of one large, for-profit university and found that higher GPA, fulltime enrollment status, black race (over whites)... weighed most heavily in accurately predicting higher graduation odds." So - what. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is Online Learning Cheaper?
Terry Anderson, Virtual Canuck, August 2, 2013
My answer would be, "It depends on what you're doing and who is doing it." Terry Anderson references Tom Carey and David Trick (2013), How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature. More...
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