Defining (and Driving) Collaboration
Jordan Lippman, Janine Perri, Getting Smart, 2018/05/21
This is a preview of a Collaboration Nation survey that will be published this summer. The preview finding being released is that educators tend to blame problems in collaboration on the student rather than on factors related to the class or the school system. More...
Lynda.com to benefit every student, instructor and staff
eCampusOntario, Government of Ontario, 2018/05/21
This is a master stroke on the part of both Microsoft (which owns LinkedIn and Lynda) and eCampus Ontario. The news is that eCampus Ontario will "provide all students, instructors and staff at member institutions with access to the full suite of Lynda.com content at no cost for three years to September 21, 2020." This is a huge data-collection opportunity for Microsoft, not to mention the benefit from a million subscriptions, which if purchased individually would cost more than $250 million a year. More...
D-Cent
European Union, 2018/05/21
D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies) is "a Europe-wide project developing the next generation of open source, distributed, and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment." "The EU-funded project started in October 2013 and ended in May 2016." Here's the white paper (15 page PDF). More...
Blockchain for Peer Review
David Rosenthal, DSHR's Blog, 2018/05/21
This article describes an initiative in the UK called Blockchain for Peer Review, " a protocol where information about peer review activities (submitted by publishers) are stored on a blockchain." Although this may appear to make sense, argues David Rosenthal, "implementing it with a blockchain is effectively impossible" because of GDPR. More...
Smallest Possible Learning Online Tool
Alan Levine, 2018/05/21
This is a SPLOT (Smallest Possible Learning Online Tool) that introduces SPLOTs. Here's a bunch of SPLOTs. More...
Surveillance Art?
Tony Hirst, OUseful Info, 2018/05/22
As part of a course section "to get folk to reflect on how easily tracked we are through our computational devices" Tony Hirst introduces us to this art project called Artificial Senses, which “visualizes sensor data of the machines that surround us to develop an understanding how they experience the world”. More...
Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, 3 Quarks Daily, 2018/05/22
We normally think of fake news as news that is, well, fake. But efforts to define it this way quickly run into counterexamples. More...
What Counts as Student Agency?
Marie Bjerede, Getting Smart, 2018/05/22
I once offered a four-part model of autonomy as my attempt to answer this question (and questions like it). So I find that this two-part model falls a bit short. It includes 'volition' and 'positive action'. But it leaves out epistemic status (that is, the knowledge to act purposefully) and outcome (the idea that your actions actually have an effect). More...
Making Sense of Open Education
OpenLearn Create, 2018/05/22
According to the website, "This will be an introductory-level course designed for global post-secondary educators interested in learning more about open education, open educational resources (OER), and open educational practices (OEP)." You don't have to sign up to view the materials (yay!) and these will be available when the course launches June 1. More...
12 Deeper Tips for Great Public Speaking
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, 2018/05/22
Steve Wheeler posted a nice article called 12 Tips for Great Speaking today.He's had a lot of experience on the public speaking circuit and there's no doubt his tips hit the mark. I've also had some experience on the circuit, so I thought it would be useful to add to his remarks. More...
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