Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
Something like this is much closer to what online learning will eventually look like than all those nice prepackaged lessons. The Historical Event Markup and Linking Project consists of a set of XML files describing historical events connected to an outpuit engine that allows these to be viewed as timelines, maps, or tables of events sorted by date or location. More...
Creating a Controlled Vocabulary
A controlled vocabulary is a set of terms that may be presented to a user when they are making a selection. In the example provided by this article, the vocabulary describes items for sale by two outdoor equipment stores. But of course controlled vocabularies will be of use wherever you need a systematic approach to categorization. More...
Media-S
Several people have sent me this item over the last week or so. From the website, "Media-S is an open-source development project that aims to create an open Digital Rights interface for the creation, playback, and management of multimedia files. Because of its open nature, Ogg Vorbis will be the first format to be protected by this initiative." (Ogg Vorbis is an open source audio format.) I haven't reviewed the spec in detail, so I can't comment intelligently at the moment. More...
Open-Access Best Sellers
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, 2018/06/01
I don't keep close track of how often my eBooks have been downloaded, but I do know it's in the tens of thousands. Maybe more; who knows? But this number, whatever it is, is a compelling argument for offering them for free, as compared to the press run of 300 copies the typical monograph might warrant. More...
Social Finance pilot projects: Interim report
Kelsey Brennan, Brian Carriere, Sheila Currie, Shek-wai Hui, Boris Palameta, Sopcial Research and Demonstration Corporation, 2018/06/01
Social Impact Bonds (SIB) in education is a concept "whereby private investors pay up front for training and are repaid by the government if the training is successful in achieving pre-established outcomes." This report (92 page PDF) is an interim report on some SIB projects. More...
Let's Stop Talking About The '30 Million Word Gap'
Anya Kamenetz, NPR, 2018/06/01
A number of years ago the government ran a series of ads saying, basically, "talk to your baby". But it isn't the number of words that's important, noe indeed is it clear that there was ever a 'gap' in the number of words some babies hear. More...
MOOC Expert Fiona Hollands Makes A Suggestion and a Prediction
Henry Kronk, eLearningInside News, 2018/06/01
The suggestion is to change the name MOOC because "they might be small, they might not be open, and they might be wholly different from the MOOCs first offered by Stanford professors in 2011, not to mention the earlier iterations in 2008." More...
Cognitive Biases
John Manoogian III, Buser Benson, Visual Capitalist, 2018/06/01
This is just a placeholder to allow me to associate cognitive biases with critical literacies should I ever getting to writing more about the latter in the future. More...
Drafting #IndieWeb Principles for the Rest of Us
Greg McVerry, IntertextRevolution, 2018/06/01
The author of this post correctly points out that the original indieweb principles were too technical for most people. He thus drafts a second set of indieweb principles that are also too technical for most people. But this page gives us a nice set of starting principles (quoted):
The third principle has the potential to be problematic, but I read it this way: you are responsible for your own posts. More...
Separating Fact From Fiction: The Reality of Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing, and Education
Michael Geist, 2018/05/31
Some useful data on the relation between the Canadian higher education sector and licensed publications. As the title suggests, the facts are different from the marketing we read from the lobbyists. More...
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