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1 mars 2019

Teens have always gone where identity isn't

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teens have always gone where identity isn't
Jonathan Libov , Whoops, March 11, 2013
Statements that describe an entire demographic - 'teens', say - are always dubious and subject to counterexamples, but beyond the hyperbole is a point worth taking home in this text: "Teens eschew Facebook and Twitter for Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat and other apps not because they're a new, different generation, but because they don't yet have much of an identity to boast of." Such spaces allow them to try on new identities, and to be someone they aren't. More...

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1 mars 2019

Can MOOCs Save Academic Freedom?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Can MOOCs Save Academic Freedom?
K. Edward Renner, Edudemic, March 11, 2013
Interesting angle on MOOCs and not one that would spring to mind immediately. But... could MOOCs save academic freedom? Well, that depends a lot on what is threatening it. In this article, the concerns are globalization and commercialization. More...

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1 mars 2019

Time

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Time
Doug Peterson, doug - off the record, March 11, 2013
Dough Peterson asks, "Just how do computers store time anyway? Does it think in days, hours, and minutes?" I actually have something like an answer to that question. Computers think in seconds (or, if they're stuffy, milliseconds). For a computer, any given time is a certain number of seconds after an arbitrary start date, known as the epoch. For unix computers (and therefore Linux and, these days, Apple) the epoch started at 12 a.m. January 1, 1970 (GMT). More...

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1 mars 2019

Hacking the Classroom: Beyond Design Thinking

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Hacking the Classroom: Beyond Design Thinking
Jackie Gerstein, User Generated Education, March 11, 2013
Sometimes people ask me what research methodology I employ, and after referring them to Paul Feyerabend and appropriate scepticism about research methodologys, I usually wave my arms in the direction of somethng like design methodology, which people can accept. Design methodology is how I set up my website, and design methodology is the process that created the first MOOCs. More...

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1 mars 2019

Emerging Student Patterns in MOOCs: A Graphical View

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Emerging Student Patterns in MOOCs: A Graphical View
Phil Hill, e-Literate, March 11, 2013
Because the whole emphasis on the new crop of MOOCs is their massiveness, it becomes very important how you count participants. Hence Phil Hills division of MOOC participants into four categories was broadly welcomed last week. More...

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1 mars 2019

RIP: Google Reader Meets Its Inevitable End

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. RIP: Google Reader Meets Its Inevitable End
Mat Honan, Wired, March 14, 2013
Google has always been a reluctant player in the RSS arena, maybe because people who use RSS have much less need for Google's core search services. One of my major complaints about Google+ was that it did not support RSS either as input or output. More...

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1 mars 2019

Social novelty filtering (or Google Reader, R.I.P.)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Social novelty filtering (or Google Reader, R.I.P.)
L.M. Orchard, blog.lmorchard.com, March 14, 2013
L.M. Orchard writes, "Marco and Dave have it right: This will probably be a good thing for RSS. The problem has been that Google Reader was just good enough to lull me out of scratching my own itch." Quite true - even though I have my own aggregator, I still use Googel reader, because it has been good enough for now. But - now what? Maybe something like "distributed social novelty filtering." It woukd be really nice to see someting set up along those lines. More...

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1 mars 2019

California Unveils Bill to Provide Openly Licensed, Online College Courses for Credit

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. California Unveils Bill to Provide Openly Licensed, Online College Courses for Credit
Cable reen, Creative Commons, March 14, 2013
A logical next step for MOOCs. California introduces a bill that "will allow CA students, enrolled in CA public colleges and universities, to take online courses from a pool of 50 high enrollment, introductory courses, offered by 3rd parties" (note 'CA' here stands for 'California', not 'Canada'). More...

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1 mars 2019

Someone took my feedbag

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Someone took my feedbag
Brian Lamb, Abject, March 14, 2013
Brian Lamb on Google's announcement. On the one hand, he takes an attitude of acceptance. "I have a hard time working up much outrage. I see something almost pathetic in begging Google to take pity on us and keep the service open." And "I place this as the latest episode in an increasingly sad story, a sequel to when Twitter discontinued RSS support." But maybe it will result in something good. More...

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1 mars 2019

Google Reader is dead

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Google Reader is dead
Ben Werdmuller, March 14, 2013
Just to make my life more complete still, ben werdmuller(who actually read Google's anouncement it's killing RSS) also notes: "In the same announcement, Google are talking about killing the standardized CalDAV API in favor of a Google Calendar specific set of calls." Ack ack ack ack ack. More...

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