Achievement Standards Network
Achievement Standards Network, May 15, 2014
From the website: "The Achievement Standards Network ASN) provides open access to machine-readable representations of learning objectives published by education agencies and organizations including the Common Core State Standards." It was acquired by Desire2Learn last March. More...
Are MOOCs Just Moneymaking Scams? Providers Challenged To Substantiate Grandiose Claims
Keith Button, Campus Technology, May 15, 2014
So the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education has launched a video and campaign against MOOCs, depicting MOOCs as schemes designed to make money. This follows the release of three working papers last year "questioning the basic positive assumptions about online education." I will admit, Coursera, Udacity and EdX make good targets. But it doesn't make sense to tar all MOOCs (and all online learning) with the same brush. More...
Statement about embargo periods
Kathleen Shearer, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), May 14, 2014
For a while, supporters of open access have accepted embargo periods as a necessary evil to promote the transition from closed source to open access publications. Embargo periods delay the publication of open versions of paid articles for a period of time. Now they are seeing the cost of that compromise. More...
Employers must start investing in skills training or risk having public policy nudge them along
David Munroe, Financial Post, May 14, 2014
I've long considered this sort of item inevitable. The more employers argue that education should focus on skills development for employment needs, the more the onus falls on them to pay for that. More...
Open Policy Network
Open Policy Network, May 14, 2014
Creating Commons is launching new Open Policy Network website. More...
MOOCS: Expectations and Reality
Devayani Tirthali, Fiona M. Hollands, Teachers College Columbia University, May 13, 2014
Longish report (211 page PDF) about the use and understanding of MOOCs in an institutional context. More...
The Open Virus
Martin Weller, The Ed Techie, May 13, 2014
Though the spread of the open virus is by no means guaranteed, it seems like a natural progression from one domain to the next. More...
ALT Members views on Learning Analytics
Martin Hawksey, ALT Online Newsletter, May 13, 2014
Interesting set of reflections from the Association for Learning Technology. I liked the distinction between educational data mining, which is focused on "developing methods for exploring the unique types of data that come from educational settings," and learning analytics. More...
MOOCs’ disruption is only beginning
Clayton M. Christensen, Michelle R. Weise, Boston Globe, May 12, 2014
What characterizes a bubble isn't the chorus of sceptics. It's thee lack of them. So MOOCs - who have certainly attracted the sceptics - are far from the bubble stage of their existence. So say Clayton M. Christensen and Michelle R. Weise in this op-ed. More...
The future of the open Internet is decentralized
Joseph Cox, The Daily Dot, May 12, 2014
Many of the recent problems being seen in digital communications - from the cost of acess to the widespread spying to the blocking of services like YouTube and Twitter to the commodification of commercialization of services that used to be free - have resulted from the ongoing re-centralization of the internet, where one or a few services are able to monopolize discourse. More...
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