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27 février 2019

Taking the Testing Effect Beyond the College Freshman: Benefits for Lifelong Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web.Taking the Testing Effect Beyond the College Freshman: Benefits for Lifelong Learning
Ashley M.D. Meyer, Jessica M. Logan, Psychology and Aging, March 7, 2013
I've been seeing research recently pointing to the utility of testing, such as this item (cited here). I don't see this so much as evidence in favour of testing per se but rather as an instance of the 'use-it or lose-it' phenomenon: tests are a way of using knowledge, and hence constitute a form of practice with that knowledge. More...

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27 février 2019

How Texting Can Keep Teens on Track to College

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Texting Can Keep Teens on Track to College
Ben Wildavsky, The Quick and the Ed, March 7, 2013
Ben Wildavsky reports on a study that shows a "remarkably cheap and easy technology 'nudge' can keep students on track to matriculate." The idea is to send messages to students over the summer (the report focuses on "low income" students, but that seems a bit patronizing) to offset the effects of "summer melt," or the loss of gains made in the previous school year. More...

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27 février 2019

Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care
Gerd Kortemeyer, EDUCAUSE Review, March 4, 2013
Wait... what? Actually, the headline overstates the case. Here is is, precisely: "OERs have failed to significantly affect the day-to-day teaching of the vast majority of higher education institutions. Traditional textbooks and readings still dominate most teaching venues even though essentially all students are online: Course management systems are used only for the dissemination of syllabi, class notes, general communications, and as a grade book." The article nicely lists some adoption hurdles: discoverability, quality, last mile, acquisition. More...

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27 février 2019

ere Comes ACTA: Canadian Government Introduces Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Compliance

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ere Comes ACTA: Canadian Government Introduces Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Compliance Bill
Michael Geist, March 4, 2013
ACTA - the hated anti-counterfeiting trade legislation rejected outright in Europe and else where - is experiencing a North American revival. Critics complained (justly) that ACTA was negotiated in secret and "would profoundly restrict the fundamental rights and freedoms of European citizens, most notably the freedom of expression and communication privacy." But it is nonetheless the subject of implementation legistation both here in Canada and also in the United States. More...

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27 février 2019

Classes start tomorrow!

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Classes start tomorrow!
Kelli McGraw, March 4, 2013
I'm sending this along because, well, how can you say no to My Little Pony? (For those who didn't know, My Little Pony is a thing. More...

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27 février 2019

BigData in HR: Why it's Here and What it Means

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. BigData in HR: Why it's Here and What it Means
Josh Bersin, Bersin by Deloitte, March 4, 2013
What's interesting about the diagram above is that it presents analytics (properly so-called) as its own discipline, and represents human resources (HR) and (hence) education as the latest thing in the progression of analytics through the years. More...

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27 février 2019

Why Numbers Exist

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Numbers Exist
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, March 4, 2013
People just take their existence for granted. But on Sunday I got a bug in my head about why they exist at all, and I couldn't get past it. So all work had to be set aside until I had worked it out. Sometimes it's rough being a polymath.

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27 février 2019

Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, November 30, 2013
This is the fourth in her year-end series of articles (I'll run a retrospective of all ten later in December) and focuses on MOOCs. More...

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27 février 2019

Ban government use of instant messages, access watchdog says

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ban government use of instant messages, access watchdog says
Karina Roman, CBC News, November 30, 2013
Normally I wouldn't comment on something like this but I want to draw out the presumption, obviously held by the access-to-information commissioner, that instand messages are like emails or even mini documents. More...

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27 février 2019

User guide to developing an employer survey on skill needs

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. User guide to developing an employer survey on skill needs
Nick Sofroniou, Alena Zukersteinova, European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), November 30, 2013
If you are doing a survey on skill needs, and you haven't really done anything like this before, use this guide, It's clear and informative, and I think it covers the ground well, leading the user toward an accurate and appropriate methodology (section 4, which details coverage of sectors and coverage of occupational groups, is evidence for this). More...

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