By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Top Hat Content Rescue Bookmarklet
Tom Woodward, Bionic Teaching, 2018/10/05
As Tom Woodward writes, "Top Hat has some useful features (and a very aggressive sales team) but it’s not a place that makes it easy to get your content out." This short item offers help. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Kirkpatrick and Open Badges: Can do better!
Serge Ravet, Learning Futures, 2018/10/05
This is a nice blending of Kirkpatrick levels of course assessment and open badges. It begins as a criticism of Kirkpatrick's use of badges ("I find it outstanding that after a mere 3-hour training, participants receive a badge specifying that they are able, among other things, to 'plan and deliver training programs with business value in mind.'"). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 10 key facts about SAFE Network
SAFE, 2018/10/03
As I've been suggesting in recent months, the structure of the web is changing at the lowest levels. It's not clear how this will ll shake out yet. On the one hand we have HTTP/2 (criticized by some as "a protocol by Google for Google" - see this interview). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What does the Top Tools for Learning 2018 list tell us about the future direction of L&D?
Jane Hart, 2018/10/03
I referenced Jane Hart's list of top e-learning tools yesterday and noted how few of the top results were actually e-learning tools. This post from Hart looks at her own views on what the list means. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Comparison of Social Learning Systems: Crochet Alongs and MOOCs
Shirley Williams, E.J. Highwood, European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2018/10/03
This is a great paper that introduces us to a type of MOOC that is more like a MOOC than the MOOCs offered by most MOOC providers. The category is the 'Along', as in "Crochet Along', as in'crochet along with me'. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Intro to OER: A Wider Spectrum
Tom Woodward, Bionic Teaching, 2018/10/03
The bulk of this post is a revised outline of an introduction to open educational resources (OER) with a lot of links to sources and resources. This is prefaced with an explanation of that structure. "I try to work from the typical conception of OER towards what I feel like are less considered elements," writes Tom Woodward. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. CC submits proposed Amicus Brief to 9th Circuit on Proper Interpretation of BY-NC-SA 4.0
Diane Peters, Creative Commons Blog, 2018/10/02
I agree with the gist of the brief filed by Creative Commons which says a school should be able to hire a contractor to reproduce copies of an openly licensed non-commercial work. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Cognitive Science
Paul Thagard, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2018/10/02
Paul Thagard, the author of this extensively revised encyclopedia article, is an authority in this field in his own right (he's another one of the people I studied during my PhD studies). This article is especially useful for people new to the field because of its breakdown, in section four, of nine 'theoretical approaches' to cognitive science. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Top Tools for Learning 2018
Jane Hart, Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, 2018/10/02
What's interesting about this year's list is that none of the top tools are actually e-learning tools. They include YouTube, Google, PowerPoint, LinkedIn, Twitter, Zoom and the like. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Continuing Professional Development: Looking at Old Problems in New Ways
Stephen Downes, Oct 02, 2018, 10th National CPD Accreditation Conference, Mississauga, Ontario
Despite the widespread availability of learning technologies, many of the traditional problems of continuing professional development (CPD) remain with us today. These problems range from managing conflict of interest to identifying learner needs to improving and measuring learning and workplace outcomes. More...
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