26 Innovation Breakthroughs at the World's Open Universities
Contact North, 2017/09/21
This is a short post (6 page PDF) with one-paragraph descriptions of innovations at open universities around the world. Together, the set provides others with a sort of menu of options they can follow. Most usefully, each one has a link you can follow. Some of the items aren't eactly innovations (such as the Switching from Moodle to Azure item). More...
Educators Should Steal Google’s Secret About Creativity
Matt Presser, Education Week, 2017/09/21
"When we give our students real responsibility to tackle problems connected to their interests, they flourish." So says Matt Presser in this article. More...
Losing out on learning: Action to ensure refugee children get an education
Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly, World Education Blog, 2017/09/21
According to this article, "More than half of all the refugee children in the world – 3.5 million – are not in school. In the last year alone refugee children have missed more than 700 million days of school, with this figure increasing by 1.9 million days every day." More...
2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress
2017/09/20
This is video from the 2nd World OER Congress, now in progress, subtitled, "OER for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: From Commitment to Action." As Indrajit Banerjee opens the 'Ljubljana OER Action Plan' session: "For a knowledge society to become reality, there should be shared information." More...
Why the State of Surveillance in Schools Might Lead to the Next Equifax Disaster
Jenny Abamu, EdSurge, 2017/09/20
The reference to Equifax is just a little priming for the search engines; this story has nothing to do with data leaks (there's a well-worn strategy called 'streaming' in blog writing where you follow in the wake of popular stories to catch a little of the search traffic; I'm not a fan). The article tracks a fictitious student through a surveilled school. Every movement is tracked, every interaction is logged. More...
The Open Faculty Patchbook
Terry Greene, et.al., PressBooks, 2017/09/20
I like the idea of a 'patchbook', which draws on the idea of a quilt, in which each contribution is distinct, as opposed to a wili, where the contributions are melded into a single whole. In this patchbook 26 authors create "a quasi-textbook about pedagogy for teaching & learning in college. More...
Learning as Artifact Creation
George Siemens, elearnspace, 2017/09/20
"One aspect of connectivism that has great potential for development is the role of the artifact in learning," writes George Siemens. "he web had its velveteen rabbit moment and became real to people who had previously been unable to easy share their creative artifacts. Eventually we were blessed with the ugly stepchildren of this movement (Twitter, Facebook) that enabled flow of creative artifacts but in themselves where not primarily generative technologies." Quite so. More...
Opening Up Higher Education against the Policy Backdrop of the ‘Knowledge Economy’ – Navigating the Conflicting Discourses
Gabi Witthaus, SlideShare, 2017/09/20
Once again I find myself wishing people would record their conference sessions - even an audio recording would be far better than slides, padlet and an outline. And this looks like an interesting one. More...
Canada needs a national overhaul of university IP policies
Bart De Baere, Elicia Maine , University Affairs, 2017/09/19
According to the authors, young scientists and innovators have difficulty obtaining funding. This could be addressed by revising institutional intellectual [property (IP) rules to that they have full ownership of anything they create, even if they're working at a university (or government research lab?), which would attract investors and given them incentive to commercialize their innovations. More...
World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM with 58.4% support, EFF resigns
Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing, 2017/09/19
Should digital rights management (DRM) be a world wide web standard? It's a tough question and so it's not surprising that the WWW Consortium (W3C) split almost down the middle on it. Now I've done work in DRM; I even have a patent in the area. But I have also argued consistently that DRM should be enforced in the resource, not the network. More...
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