Short eLiterate Course on Analytics and Adaptive Learning
2018/03/20
This is a nice collection of six videos on the topic. Topics covered include continuous formative assessment, memory decay, and adaptive learning. More...
4 avril 2018
4 avril 2018
No Significant Difference - Unless you are a Jumper
No Significant Difference - Unless you are a Jumper
Craig Ruff, Richard J Fendler, Milind Shrikhande, online learning, 2018/03/20
The well-documented 'no significant difference' phenomenon (NSD) is the observation that the delivery mode does not impact learning outcomes. The proposition tested in this paper (22 page PDF) is the idea that while NSD may hold in the aggregate, it varies at the individual level. More...
4 avril 2018
An Online Engagement Framework for Higher Education
An Online Engagement Framework for Higher Education
Petrea Redmond, Amanda Heffernan, Lindy Abawi, Alice Brow, Robyn Henderson, online learning, 2018/03/20
This paper (22 page PDF) identifies a set of five major types of online engagement in courses based on a literature search looking at student attitudes, beliefs and actions. The types are: social, cognitive, emotional, behavioural and collaborative engagement. More...
4 avril 2018
Online, Cheap -- and Elite
Online, Cheap -- and Elite
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, 2018/03/20
This article summarizes an analysis of Georgia Tech’s online master’s in computer science published in Education Next ("a journal focused on school reform") which suggests that the experiment was a success. According to the authors, it attracted students who would not have enrolled in the program and paid the fees - "working adults who can’t commit to full-time graduate study." But it might be a result that doesn't replicate. More...
4 avril 2018
OERu social network
OERu social network
Wayne Mackintosh, OERu, 2018/03/20
OERu has launched it's on Mastodon instance. In an email Wayne Mackintosh writes, "We are excited to announce the launch of mastodon.oeru.org - OERu’s own social network to support learners and the wider OERu family. For information on how to sign up on mastodon.oeru.org, please consult the OERu support site." Mastodon is an open source social network application that creates a distributed network of instances (instead of a commercialized central service like Twitter). More...
4 avril 2018
Family fun with deepfakes. Or how I got my wife onto the Tonight Show
Family fun with deepfakes. Or how I got my wife onto the Tonight Show
Sven Charleer, 2018/03/19
Content sites are beginning to block and take down deepfakes animations and videos. These are created by AIs and essentially put the face of one person onto the body of another (where the other may be depicted in some very compromising positions (or to insert Nicolas Cage into all your favourite motion pictures)). More...
4 avril 2018
Why the Social Sciences are Irreducible
Why the Social Sciences are Irreducible
Tobias Hansson Wahlberg, 2018/03/19
This is a very common position in the social sciences (including education): "“We can hold that any particular social entity at a given time and its causal powers are token identical with the sum of individuals composing it.” Or "it might well be true that each instance of a social kind - for example, a state structure - is identical with an ensemble of individual actors having certain properties." This paper examines, in detail, some of the arguments for and against this position. More...
4 avril 2018
Students Use Self-Directed Learning to Serve Their Community, One Foot at a Time
Students Use Self-Directed Learning to Serve Their Community, One Foot at a Time
Savanna Barksdale, Home Room, 2018/03/19
The foot in question is a duck's foot and what the students are doing is creating prosthetic duck feet using 3D printing to serve as feet for real ducks. More...
4 avril 2018
16 Years of Web Hosting Changes with WordPress and Other Web Platforms: The Lessons Continue
16 Years of Web Hosting Changes with WordPress and Other Web Platforms: The Lessons Continue
Wesley Fryer, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, 2018/03/19
Because I host my own website (as well as a half a dozen MOOCs and some other stuff) I'm always attentive to discussion of issues around web hosting. I've had good service providers and bad. More...
4 avril 2018
Reflections and Directions After PKP’s First Two Decades
Reflections and Directions After PKP’s First Two Decades
Public Knowledge Project, 2018/03/19
In my email this afternoon: "The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is pleased to share our reflections on a community consultation process that saw us receive feedback from a wide range of stakeholders, including scholarly communications experts and past, present, and potential users of PKP software and services." This is the organization that creates and offers Open Journal Systems, Open Conference System, Open Havesting, and more. More...
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