The future of the distance education university
Mark Nichols, John Daniel, Ross Paul, António Teixeira, Tony Bates, EDEN, 2018/03/14
What would we lose if we lost open and distance universities? This question was posed at a panel hosted by EDEN last week and available as a video here. Sir John Daniel suggests we would lose the inclusiveness agenda, the idea that higher education should be offered wiodely across society. More...
What Makes an App Great for Kids Might Surprise You
Anya Kamenetz, Ad Age, 2018/03/13
It has a clickbait title and stock horror ("my son gave up a birthday party for an iphone! No!") as a lead-in but the observation inside this article is more interesting: "A better model for learning apps... may be less slot machine and more sandbox: a digital toy, not a digital game. More...
Betting 185 Million Dollars on EdTech
Victor Rivero, EdTech Digest, 2018/03/13
I found the interviewer a bit sycophantic (not not nearly as bad as I've seen on some business channels) but the conversation as a whole with Owl Ventures’ Tory Patterson is interesting and, to a degree, eye-opening. The $185 million refers to the amount of investment capital Owl raised in its second fund offering (the first was around $100 million, in 2014). More...
Next Generation L&D: From ‘Learning’ To ‘Performance’
David James, Looop, 2018/03/13
What are outcomes? The real need isn't learning and development per se. More...
Accessibility as default
Alastair Creelman, The corridor of uncertainty, 2018/03/13
It makes sense to plan for accessibility by defailt, but the examples offered here show how complex in implementation this actually is. "When writing presentation slides, extra attention to punctuation can make an enormous difference for those who need to listen to the text," writes Alastair Creelman. More...
Review of Ethically Aligned Design
Stephen Downes, Mar 13, 2018, HCT Reading Club, Ottawa, via Jabber
In this presentation I review Ethically Aligned Design by The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, focusing on the section on classical ethics in autonomous and intelligent systems. More...
Crazy Microsoft Is The Best Microsoft
Mark Wilson, Co.Design, 2018/03/12
Back in 2010 EA released a hockey game for the Nintendo Wii that featured an actual hockey stick as a controller. It was the greatest thing ever, and I spent hours - days! - standing in the dining room developing my career from Peewee to Pro. They didn't support it the following year and I lost interest. More...
Will these four technology trends change education in India?
Shweta Sharan, LiveMint, 2018/03/12
The four technologies under discussion are virtual reality, learning communities (including MOOCs), AI tutors and big data. The four are obviously interrelated. More...
Treasury Board Standard on Automated Decision Support Systems
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, 2018/03/12
This early draft version of a new Treasury Board standard (the Treasury Board is part of the Government of Canada) has been posted on Google Docs and is now receiving comments from the community. More...
There Is No Case for the Humanities
Justin Stover, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/03/12
This article and the dozens and dozens of comments that follow (I read them all) kept me interested, which is a sign to me that it's worth including in the newsletter. More...
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