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21 novembre 2017

Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision For Prioritizing Wellbeing With Artificial Intelligence And Autonomous Systems, Version 1

Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision For Prioritizing Wellbeing With Artificial Intelligence And Autonomous Systems, Version 1
Ieee, 2017/06/14
This report (138 page PDF) was released last December and a second version is now in process for release in late 2017. Here's the blurb from the website. More...

21 novembre 2017

Sign of the times: Crowdfunding for scientific research

Sign of the times: Crowdfunding for scientific research
Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen, 2017/06/14
I'm thinking that if I had to depend on crowd-funding to support my research I'd be in trouble. It's not that it isn't important and worthwhile - it's just that, of the top thousand things on a person's mind, my work isn't one of them. Which means they'd never get around to crowdfunding it. More...

21 novembre 2017

Continuity and change: employers' training practices and partnerships with training providers

Continuity and change: employers' training practices and partnerships with training providers
Erica Smith, Andrew Smith, Jacqueline Tuck, Victor Callan, National Centre for Vocational Education Research, 2017/06/14
This report (112 page PDF) from Australia makes the point that employer training practices haven't changed a lot over the years. They recognize the value of training, especially with respect to the major drivers: to improve the quality of the product or service, to adopt new technology, and to meet increasing regulatory requirements. More...

21 novembre 2017

IEEE P7004: Standard for Child and Student Data Governance

IEEE P7004: Standard for Child and Student Data Governance
Ieee, 2017/06/13

This group was constituted a couple weeks ago and meets monthly. More...

21 novembre 2017

Companies using AI to find their next employee

Companies using AI to find their next employee
David Israelson, Globe and Mail, 2017/06/13
Over the last few years I've been talking about the idea of using a person's online presence directly to evaluate their credentials and skills, rather than depending on proxies like degrees and certificates. This is a step in that direction. More...

21 novembre 2017

New Vision for the Monograph

New Vision for the Monograph
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 2017/06/13
Now that we have the World Wide Web, a technology that puts digital content into the hands of everyone, academics and publishers are turning their attention (once again) to book platforms. One wonders why. But instances abound. This article profiles a tool called Topicgraph That "is part of a JSTOR project to take the digital scholarly monograph from a PDF to something more useful for researchers." Read their white paper (54 page PDF). More...

21 novembre 2017

10 recommendations on HE from OEB Mid-Summit (Reykjavik)

10 recommendations on HE from OEB Mid-Summit (Reykjavik)
Donald Clark, Donald Clark Plan B, 2017/06/13
The recommendations in this post are mostly unremarkable, but there is interesting reading ion the section critiquing the keynote by Audrey Watters at the same conference. More...

21 novembre 2017

Ministry boosts job opportunities for disabled graduates

The Higher Education Ministry will be cooperating with the Development of Persons with Disabilities Department in an effort to ensure disabled graduates in Malaysia obtain employment opportunities, reports Bernama. More...
21 novembre 2017

65% of university seniors rejected job offer – Survey

Around 65% of university seniors in Japan had turned down one or more job offers as of October amid a nationwide labour shortage, reports The Japan Times. More...
21 novembre 2017

Six universities told to change advertising claims

The advertising watchdog has told six United Kingdom universities to take down marketing claims that could be misleading. Leicester, East Anglia, Strathclyde, Falmouth, Teesside and the University of West London have all had complaints upheld against them, writes Sean Coughlan for BBC New. More...
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