Traditional assessment rewards the wrong behaviors-here’s why
Alan November, eSchool News, 2017/06/16
"Students as young as first grade can learn to solve complex linear equations—an algebraic concept that generally isn’t taught until the seventh or eighth grade." How's that for a lede. More...
Introduction to ePortfolios and Mahara
Kerry Johnson, KerryJ's Neotenous Tech, 2017/06/16
This post is an overview of e-portfolios and Mahara. More...
Open University jobs at risk in £100m 'root and branch' overhaul
Sally Weale, The Guardian, 2017/06/16
I'm sorry to read this. I'm taking it to reflect the impact of the transition from more traditional approaches to digital delivery (maybe with a bit of FutureLearn thrown in). More...
Toward a Better Internet: Building Prosocial Behavior into the Commons
Jane Park, Creative Commons, 2017/06/16
This is a longish post devoted to the idea that the license isn't everything in reuse (Alan Levine has been making this point for a dog's age). OIn this post, prosocial behaviours are contrasted with "negative behaviors that occur with online content sharing more generally." For example: using bots to remix and repost CC-licensed designs; harassment of marginalized groups; not respecting people’s desires and expectations about how content will be used; claiming CC0 public domain works as their own and monetizing them; and more. More...
Event Recap: The Future of Work with Coursera and General Assembly
Coursera Blog, 2017/06/15
General Assembly began as a cooperative workspace but evolved into an IT and business skills training company with centres around the world. This short article from Coursera describes its future work with this company. More...
These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books
Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura, 2017/06/15
This post is mostly eye candy but it makes clear what is going on in a certain type of game-based learning, specifically, branching scenario learning (see examples here, here, here). More...
eleven-x marches its low-power IoT network across Canada
Ryan Matthew Pierson, ReadWrite, 2017/06/15
It's surprising but it also makes sense that there would be a completely separate wireless network for Internet of Things devices. "Existing wireless carrier signals make a lot of bandwidth available, but also require a lot of energy to maintain a connection to. IoT devices don’t need a lot of bandwidth. More...
What fake news is doing to digital literacy
Bryan Alexander, 2017/06/15
The issues of fake news and digital literacy have received a thorough airing over ther last year or so, but despite that, we still have too much of the former and too little of the latter. The responses, as Bryan Alexander characterizes them, fall into two camps: (lower-case-d) democrats, who feel people can and should learn to make their own information choices, and neo-gatekeepers, who call on regulations to govern Facebook and Twitter and the rest (and maybe even the traiditional media) to help people cope. More...
A brighter future for Athabasca University?
Tony Bates, online learning and distance education resources, 2017/06/14
I have a personal attachment to Athabasca University, not only because I know so many people there, but also because I worked there from 1987-1994 and its mission and mandate had a formative impact on me. More...
Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education
Jackie Gerstein, Barbara Bray, User Generated Education, 2017/06/14
This post brings together a couple of idea current in the field: dresign thinking, and universal design for learning (UDL). The overview is in the diagram. More...
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