Quotes from from Creativity by Csikszentmihalyi (Part 3)
Doug Johnson, Blue Skunk Blog, February 27, 2014
You can probably deduce that there is a part 1 and part 2 as well. But this is the one that caught my eye. "
Everyone agrees that necessary as it is to listen to the unconscious, it is not sufficient. More...
Learning to Code
Doug Peterson, doug - off the record, February 27, 2014
What is the best way for a teacher to learn how to code? If you're new at it, I think I would recommend CodeAcademy, because it allows you to write code and see the results right away. More...
MOOC experts surprised by how they're evolving
James Breiner, News Entrepreneurs, February 26, 2014
I would hesitate to call the three commentators in this article 'experts' but I do think their reflections on their initial exposures to MOOCs are interesting. More...
Cheating students punished by the 1000s, but many more go undetected
Holly Moore, CBC News, February 26, 2014
A CBC survey says that "thousands" of students in Canada were caught cheating (though admittedly that means maybe one percent of theem). Of course, many more people may actually be cheating than get caught. Other studies have found around half of all students admt cheating (a figure that is interestingly consistent with the poll at the bottom of the article). More...
The Great Facebook Email Experiment Is Over
Mike Isaac, Recorde.net, February 26, 2014
You probably didn't know Facebook had an email service. Don't worry - nobody else did either. That's hwy it's shutting down. More...
10 Things I’ve Learned (So Far) from Making a Meta-MOOC
Cathy N. Davidson, Hybrid Pedagogy, February 25, 2014
Cathy Davidson was more than a little surprised and bemused when she was arbitrarily named one of the leading figures in MOOCs by the Chronicle of Higher Education. "I've been ambivalently interested in MOOCs," she wrote at the time, "with more than a healthy degree of scepticism that the current form will persist in the future." Still, she has since then embraced her newly minted expert status with gusto, having worked since then to learn something about the subject in which she was now a designated expert. More...
REL 2014
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, February 25, 2014
We're running a MOOC en français starting next Monday on Open Educational Resources (OERs). There's a page available where you can sign up. It's not a long MOOC - 10 weeks - and it will feature a variety of interesting participants. The MOOC was created by the L’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and was developed by the Université de Moncton. I will be facilitating and a good numner of NRC people are also contibuting (see the introductory video for more).
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信息技术在线互动课程的公开平台
Unattributed, Hasso Platner Institute, February 24, 2014
The Hasso Plattner Institute has launched a Chinese-language MOOC portal. The recently launched www.openHPI.cn an educational platform offering MOOCs in Chinese language. More...
IMS Global Learning Consortium Releases Learning Tools Interoperability v2
Press Release, IMS Global, February 24, 2014
From the press release (edited to remove adjectives) : "IMS Global Learning Consortium has announced the release of the public specification of Learning Tools Interoperability v2 (LTI™ 2), which enables automated 1-click integration of a wide variety of educational apps and digital content with the educational enterprise." The press release is for some reason a PDF. More...
JAMStack
Jamstack.org, 2018/09/17
A 'JAM stack' is a website built from three major components: Javascript, which runs in your browser; APIs, which are abstracted server-side processes; and templated Markup that is built at deploy time. The key advantage is this: "When your deployment amounts to a stack of files that can be served anywhere, scaling is a matter of serving those files in more places. CDNs (Content Distribution Networks) are perfect for this, and often include scaling in all of their plans." Here are some examples. More...
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