5 Tips For Choosing The Right Open Source Code
Jonathan Saring, ReadWrite, 2017/06/08
Ignore for the moment the fact that this article is about open source code, and pretend it's about open educational resources or something similar. The advice it give becomes spot-on. More...
The Histories of Personalized Learning
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2017/06/12
As Audrey Watters points out, these days the term 'personalized learning' can mean almost anything you want it to mean, and in a sense the ideas it encompasses go back to Rousseau, Aristotle, Dewey, and various others. But there's a more modern sense we generally comprehend, and the history of this idea, she says, is a relatively recent invention, replacing 'individualization' in the late 1990s. More...
Gaokao, A.I. and the New Era of Education in China
GETChina Insights, Medium, 2017/06/09
The Chinese Higher Education Entrance Exam, or ‘Gaokao’, took place this week, and while it is an event of key importance for Chinese students, this year's effort is marked by the participation of two AIs. More...
The NextGen LMS – Not Just An eLearning Portal
Juliette Denny, eLearning Industry, 2017/06/08
This is a list of a bunch of things we expect next-generation learning technology to be, most of which existing LMSs are already in the process of implementing: social network services, knowledge aggregation, mobile learning support, performance management, internal recruitment, and so on. More...
You Are What is Killing Librarianship
Veronica Arellano Douglas, ACRLog, 2017/06/12
I haven't covered libraries and librarianship a lot in these pages because my perception has been that the both have become increasingly marginal over the years. Sure, there's a digital-age story we can tell about the role of information professionals, but this story was resisted by those already in the field. More...
Neither Locked Out Nor Locked In
Martha Burtis, The Fish Wrapper, 2017/06/08
Martha Burtis discusses the use of "the Trojan Horse approach" to implementing Domain of One's Own (DoOO) at a college or university. More...
Education Aid Eludes Countries That Need It Most
Julie Depenbrock, NPR, UNESCO, 2017/06/09
Aid to education is stagnating, aid to secondary education is actually declining, and aid is not reaching the countries that need it most, according to this UNESCO policy paper. More...
Digital Badges Are Gaining Traction
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2017/06/08
"Badges seem to be gaining the most traction in career readiness, particular for so-called 'middle skills' jobs that require more than high school degree but less than four-year college degree," writes Michael Feldstein. More...
Equality of Educational Opportunity
Liam Shields, Anne Newman, Debra Satz, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2017/06/07
I'm surprised to find such an article in an encyclopedia of philosophy, but in fact philosophers have addressed the subject over the years, and it is a matter of current philosophical import (hence my own involvement in the subject). What emerges is a generally fair-minded discussion of the issues behind the concept and varying perspectives. More...
Open Learning, Open Networks
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, 2017/06/07
Open online learning entered the mainstream with the growth and popularity of MOOCs, but while interest in open online courses has never been greater MOOCs represent only the first step in a broader open learning infrastructure. More...
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