Look again at this "map of a Twitter status object". It shows how a tweet is just the tip of a big data iceberg. - http://www.slaw.ca/wp-cont...
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Terrific graphic in "Competency-Based Online Education: The Rising Tide of College Affordability" by Phil Hill in e-Literate. - http://mfeldstein.com/compete...
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Harvard-based Winston Hide explains why he's resigned as associate editor of Elsevier's "Genomics". - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...
How Science Can Improve Teaching. A slightly lightweight article in the Scientific American, by Daniel Willingham. - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...
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The Coming Civil War Over General Purpose Computing - video of talk by @doctorow. He is on to something. - http://craphound.com/?p=4143
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Concept inventories - criterion-referenced tests "designed to evaluate whether a student has an accurate working knowledge of a specific set of concepts". [Informative Wikipedia page.] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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Via @ethanZ - NYT - Csanad Szegedi, anti-semitic leader of far-Right Hungarian Jobbik party discovers his Jewish roots. - http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin...
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Video of @jasonhoyt HackerNews talk about the @timoreilly backed #OpenAccess journal @thePeerJ. Slides: http://slidesha.re/MX7L1H - http://vimeo.com/46793696
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[Via @Stephen_Curry] Wiley is now using CC_BY (commercial reuse permitted) licence on its eight current Open Access journals. - http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCD...
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West Coast Mainline - via @jonsnowC4 - Mary Beard's "Modern tax farming: and the Roman dangers of private enterprise" - http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_li...
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Interesting analysis by The Register's Andrew Orlowski about the all round superiority of RIM's BlackBerry Messenger social network. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012...
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6.003z: A learner (Amol Bhave - 17, from Jabalpur, India) spins a new MOOC out of MITx. Interesting story by Audrey Watters in Hack Education. - http://www.hackeducation.com/2012...
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6 November - R&D in technology enhanced learning. Final event from the TEL programme. At the Royal Society. Booking form and further details. - http://tel.ioe.ac.uk/royalso...
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@Czernie from Cape Town comments on Daphne Koller's London remarks about lack of access to HE in South Africa @Coursera #MOOCs - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
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STEM in schools. "Using videoconferencing in a school-scientist partnership: students’ perceptions and scientists’ challenges". Useful if you are planning to use video-conferencing to support partnerships between schools and working scientists. By Gary Falloon in Research in Learning Technology http://dx.doi.org/10... - http://www.researchinlearningt...
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Interesting post (+ discussion) from @guzdial picking up on the Coursera TED Talk. A slightly different video version of Daphne Koller's talk is @ http://fm.schmoller.net/2012..., and the presentation slides by her and Andrew Ng are @ http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2224.... - http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012...
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Use of Thomson Reuters Impact Factor "invites comparison with phrenology, the out-dated pseudo-science" - Jerome Vanclay in "Impact Factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification?" [PDF] - http://arxiv.org/ftp...
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Terrific piece by @anthonycody "Dialogue with the Gates Foundation: Can Schools Defeat Poverty by Ignoring It?" - http://blogs.edweek.org/teacher...
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http://www.webcitation.org/69tVy16... July 2012 Pew study - The future impact of the Internet on higher education. "Experts expect more-‐efficient collaborative environments and new grading schemes; they worry about massive online courses, the shift away from on-‐campus life."
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"The Role Of Career And Technical Education In Reading Proficiency" - first rate piece, with links to research, by Randall Garton on the Shanker Institute blog. - http://shankerblog.org/?p=6487
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Science Code Manifesto - five principles for making scientific software open to full scrutiny. Nice to drop onto something like this accidentally to find people I know or know of as four of the eight founding signatories. [http://sciencecodemanifesto.org/discuss... is worth reading] - http://sciencecodemanifesto.org/
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Plenty in "Not for profit - the role of the private sector in England's schools" [PDF - IPPR] to counter the drive to privatise and to introduce competition. - http://www.ippr.org/images...
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Exceptionally striking. Financial Times collated geo-data for England about 16 year old educational performance at post-code level http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata...
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An optimistic & initially learner-focused piece by Anya Kamanetz about @Coursera, @Udacity & their siblings - http://www.fastcompany.com/3000042...
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Food for thought. How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools. December 2011 investigation in The Nation by Lee Fang. - http://www.thenation.com/article...
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MOOCs, CS in schools and HE, Open Access, and more. *Many* interesting presentations on the Computing Research Association's 2012 conference website. - http://cra.org/events...
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Widely applicable: "Theory and Research-based Principles of Learning", from Carnegie Mellon University's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence: http://www.webcitation.org/69jgRcc...
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"Online Education: The Coming Tsunami?" July 2012 presentation (14 slides - PDF) by John Hennessy, President of Stanford University. http://www.webcitation.org/69jf9HW...
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Joichi Ito in the NYT - "Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants" - "It is now usually cheaper to just try something than to sit around and try to figure out whether to try something". One of those appealing, sweeping generalisations, that has some truth. But only some. - http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
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Paul Jump in the THE on dubious open-access journals keen to attract the unwary and their cash. - http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story...
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System wide & not based on academies. Financial Times report by Chris Cook via @tonyparkin "London state schools best in England". "The international school success story". - http://www.ft.com/cms..
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Google's broadband revolution. @jjn1 (John Naughton) pours scorn in The Observer on the UK's hapless efforts to improve connectivity. See also http://google.com/fiber and http://youtu.be/ffHLIZh0PHg - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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Changing how you think about "underdevelopment". Phenomenal piece by @EthanZ (mainly about how people access and pay for electricity in Kenya's Baba Dogo) - http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog...
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"We are on the edge of a complete transformation in scientific communication" - hence for @profserious (UCL's Anthony Finkelstein) the debate about #OpenAccess is a distraction. - http://blog.prof.so/2012...
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"Controversy has been raging. The proponents of different sorts of open access have been fighting it out: greens vs golds in the style of skins vs shirts in an impromptu children's football match, and with the goal equally fluid. Liking, as I do, a good controversy I am tempted to join in, arguing perhaps for some sort of mixed model, greeny-goldish, but I simply have not got the heart for the fight. It is irrelevant. The real action is somewhere else entirely. We are on the edge of a complete transformation in scientific communication that has almost nothing to do with the disintermediation of publishers and everything to do with the ways in which we disseminate research."
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Interesting. Mechanix is an AI-based system that allows diagrams to be machine-assessed and feedback provided. Explanation below. - http://engineering.tamu.edu/news...
"Mechanix allows students to sketch planar truss and free body diagrams on their computers just as they would with pencil and paper, and the Mechanix system checks the student’s work against a hand-drawn answer entered by the instructor. The system then returns immediate and detailed feedback to the student. Students can correct any errors in their work and resubmit until the entire content is correct thus reinforcing the critical concepts in the course. Since Mechanix facilitates the grading and feedback processes, instructors are now able to assign free response questions, and this will give the instructor an accurate understanding of student comprehension. Furthermore, the iterative correction process allows students to learn during a test, rather than simply regurgitating memorized information."
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Peter Murray Rust reports on exchange with Elsevier about its approach to "Hybrid Open Access". - http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr...
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Useful. Jelena Dzankic's LSE blog post on sports, citizenship, politics, & national identity helps you understand sports-related patriotism. - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politic...
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Evgeny Morozov's "The Naked And The TED". A trenchant critique of TED "an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering". Excerpt below: - http://www.tnr.com/article...
"It is in the developing world where the limitations of TED’s techno-humanitarian mentality are most pronounced. In TED world, problems of aid and development are no longer seen as problems of weak and corrupt institutions; they are recast as problems of inadequate connectivity or an insufficiency of gadgets. According to the Khannas, “centuries of colonialism and decades of aid haven’t lifted Africa’s fortunes the way technology can.” Hence the latest urge to bombard Africa with tablets and Kindles—even when an average African kid would find it impossible to repair a damaged Kindle. And the gadgets do drop from the sky—Nicholas Negroponte, having spectacularly failed in his One Laptop Per Child quest, now wants to drop his own tablets from helicopters, which would make it harder for the African savages to say “no” to MIT’s (and TED’s) civilization. This is la mission civilatrice 2.0."
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The Telegraph's Jessica Moore gets to grips with MOOCs, @udacity, @coursera etc - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educati...
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Clear critique by Simon Davies (a public school head) of Seldon's Spectator piece backing the scrapping of the QTS requirement. - http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeeh...
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