6 Tips To Turn Your Presentation Into An Interactive eLearning Course
Christopher Pappas, eLearning Industry, 2015/01/01
The six tips aren't especially interesting, and the relentless overlays begging you to subscribe or like are annoying. But the first 'tip' is actually a pretty good list of what are called 'rapid e-learning tools' - basically authoring suites that allow you to create traditional e-learning. More...
Ai Weiwei is Living in Our Future
Hans de Zwart, Medium, 2015/01/01
So what is life like in the surveillance state? Ask artist Ai Weiwei. He lives under constant observation courtesy of the Chinese government. More...
Hotels Fight for the Right to Block Guests' Wi-Fi
Kate taylor, Entrepreneur, 2015/01/01
This story has been around for a while, but it points to the danger of commercial provision of essential services. As everyone knows, price is determined by the law of supply and demand - it is, essentially, whatever the market will bear. But the often unspoken corollary is that creating artificial demand is a reliable means of driving up price. More...
Career ready: Towards a national strategy for the mobilization of Canadian potential
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Unattributed, Twitter, 2015/04/01
Twitter is accepting applications to use Curator. "Curator enables media publishers to discover, curate and display the best Twitter content on any screen." I put my name in but I probably don't qualify. More...
Techno Fantasies
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2015/04/01
Audrey Watters takes on Kevin Carey's book The End of College and does so with what is, I think, exactly the right tone, which is to say, distrust, scepticism and outright hostility. "The University of Everywhere is the response, led by venture capitalists and ed-tech entrepreneurs, to 'ancient institutions in their last days of decadence,' Carey argues. More...
3 Important Shifts in Education
George Couros, Connected Principals, 2015/04/01
I honestly don't think any of these three shifts is a real thing. I could be wrong of course. But they have the air and feel of representing things that (some) people would like to happen, rather than what's actually happening. Here are the shifts:
It's not that I actually oppose any of these. More...
Learning the Netflix way
David Hopkins, Technology Enhanced Learning Blog, 2015/04/01
I came back from my trip last night to find my Netflix payments had expired. This puts me into the mode of questioning whether I want to renew. More...
Can blogging be academically valuable? Seven reasons for thinking it might be
John Danaher, Philosophical Disquisitions, 2015/04/02
My academic career basically exists because of blogging, so I think there may be a point to this article. More...
Five Secrets of Effective and Enjoyable Leadership
Mark Federman, What is the (Next) Message?, 2015/04/02
In my recent role of program leader I've been thinking a lot about these elements. A lot of what happens in the program is out of my control, but I'm OK with that, because that also means I get to keep on being me. More...
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