Sunsetting Klout
PeteH, Lithium Community, 2018/05/11
Remember Klout? It is a service that collects your activity on impact on various social media and gives you a ranking - your 'klout score'. Anyhow, Klout is being shut down. More...
4 juin 2018
4 juin 2018
Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”
Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”
Melissa Daimler, Harvard Business Review, 2018/05/11
According to this article, "there are three elements to a culture: behaviors, systems, and practices, all guided by an overarching set of values." Issues arise when there are gaps between them. More...
4 juin 2018
Educational Technology and Education Conferences for June to December 2018
Educational Technology and Education Conferences for June to December 2018
Clayton R Wright, Stephen's Web, 2018/05/11
Clayton R. Wright offers the 39th version of the Educational Technology and Education Conference list. It comprises 1,782 confirmed events between May-December 2018. MS-Word Document. He writes, "The events for May and June have been updated since distribution of the previous list. During the last 20 years, as I have compiled the list, I have viewed tens of thousands of conference, symposium, and workshop websites. More...
4 juin 2018
Commission on Creating the Next in Education (CNE)
Commission on Creating the Next in Education (CNE)
Office of the Provost, Georgia Tech, 2018/05/11
This report "is an effort to draw with broad strokes the nature of education that defines the technological research university of the year 2040 and beyond." The core outcome, I think, is in the initiatives section (here are the links, because the page deign obscures them: Whole-Person Education, New Products and Services, Advising for a New Era, A.I. and Personalization, A Distributed Worldwide Presence). More...
4 juin 2018
Everything Is a Subscription Now and It’s Too Much
Everything Is a Subscription Now and It’s Too Much
Justin Pot, How-To Geek, 2018/05/11
The conversion from a sales model to a subscription model may well have worked for software vendors, but as the trend has taken hold it is becoming clearer that it is unsustainable. More...
4 juin 2018
The Gates Foundation And Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Want Your Ideas On The Future Of Education
The Gates Foundation And Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Want Your Ideas On The Future Of Education
Fast Company, Jim Shelton, 2018/05/11
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have opened a Request for Information (RFI) about work that can help increase student success in math, non-fiction writing, and "executive function (the skill set concerning memory, self-control, attention, and flexible thinking)" (I couldn't help but giggle a bit when I read the third one). More...
4 juin 2018
MOOCs Are Global. So Where Do They Stand With New European Privacy Laws?
MOOCs Are Global. So Where Do They Stand With New European Privacy Laws?
Sydney Johnson, EdSurge, 2018/05/09
One of the happy side-effects of Europe's new privacy law is that it impacts companies that are not European. Among these are MOOC providers who, whether or not they are based in Europe, want to do business in Europe, and so need to comply with the regulations. More...
4 juin 2018
Google Duplex Puts AI Into a Social Uncanny Valley
Google Duplex Puts AI Into a Social Uncanny Valley
S.A. Applin, Motherboard, 2018/05/09
The headlines today are being made by Google through a series of announcements at its IO conference. More interesting items include a new human-sounding Google Duplex AI interface, a new camera-based scavenger hunt (try it here), and a new interface design with Material Theming. More...
4 juin 2018
Why DIY videos are easier than you think
Why DIY videos are easier than you think
Raymond Steinmetz, eSchool News, 2018/05/09
The core message here is that it's not difficult to create video lessons, especially if you follow a few simple guidelines. The first is to have a plan - your video should have a point and you should have some idea why you're creating it. More...
4 juin 2018
Weak demand forces Springer Nature to cancel 3.2 billion euro float at last minute
Weak demand forces Springer Nature to cancel 3.2 billion euro float at last minute
Arno Schuetze, Reuters, 2018/05/09
This is a really interesting story, not simply because it shows the weakness of established publishers today, but because the prospectus (426 page PDF) paints a clear picture of the market today. I was most interested in the list of risks (pp. S16-S18 and expanded in much greater detail after p. S54). More...
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