Uncorrected records of "in person" evidence to the House of Lords #OpenAccess Inquiry now available (4 PDFs) - http://www.parliament.uk/busines...
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Karen Coyle ponders small/micro payments for scholarly content. I know I'd not baulk at this in the way I do at >$30. - http://kcoyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013...
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No more dogsbodies? Interesting reflection on Francis Report by @rsamatthew (Matthew Taylor RSA CEO) .@OldDitch - http://www.matthewtaylorsblog.com/uncateg...
It's harder than you think. Convincing piece by Arie K den Boon about developing an AI-inspired MOOC at U of Amsterdam - http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...
The FT's @xtophercook has a great analysis of the Gove "climb-down" measures (it's more complicated...) - http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata...
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I'm a bit torn as to whether @Jeffrey_Beall is doing us all a service, or banging on needlessly about obvious scammers. - http://scholarlyoa.com/2013...
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#AAUP 's Aaron Barlow is blogging interestingly about the Edinburgh U @coursera MOOC http://tinyurl.com/cth5kou - http://academeblog.org/2013...
Non-gloating sense from @dougclow about the suspension of @coursera 's Fundamentals of Online Education #MOOC - http://dougclow.org/2013...
Plenty of important insights in Part 4 of Tony Hey's "Journey to #OpenAccess". - http://tonyhey.net/2013...
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Stiglitz's "asymmetric information". Central to his
"decimation of Friedman's choice theory". Applied to vouchers &
parental choice. - http://horacemannleague.blogspot.co.uk/2013...
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Open Library of Humanities (PLOS for humanities) now has a pledge to publish form. And a commitment to fee waiver. - http://www.openlibhums.org/get-inv...
Learning design for online courses. Slides & recording of 31 Jan 1 hr webinar with @A_L_T Vice-Chair Diana Laurillard. - http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2244...
Worth reading> Rebecca Solnit's "Google Invades", about the effect of big IT on San Francisco's housing conditions. - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35...
"It's your move, MIT" writes @fmanjoo in Slate, picking up on growing support for #openaccess after Swartz's death - http://mobile.slate.com/article...
Nature News Blog: "UK research councils relax open-access push" - concerns embargo periods for Green #OpenAccess - http://blogs.nature.com/news...
On Sharing & OERs - positive report with data by Joe Moxley and Katelin Kaiser on #AAUP-hosted blog. - http://academeblog.org/2013...
Dougimas's "Social Constructivism as a Referent" - which underpins Moodle's design - is well worth (re)reading - http://docs.moodle.org/24...
"The cost of inequality: how wealth and income extremes hurt us all" Oxfam media briefing [5p PDF] - http://www.oxfam.org/sites...
Modest Article Processing Fees in the International Society of Hymenopterists Gold #OA Journal of Hymenoptera Research - http://www.pensoft.net/journal...
Carol Twigg on improving learning & reducing costs in US community colleges using NCAT approaches. - http://www.thencat.org/Mathema...
More clarity from @alittleecon, this time about long term interest rates and what governs them in different countries. - http://alittleecon.wordpress.com/2013...
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Educause webinar 11 Feb "Beyond the MOOC Hype: Getting Serious about Online Learning" with @mfeldstein67 & Phil Hill - http://www.educause.edu/eli...
Don't let the odd title "How to teach vocational
education" put you off reading this 134p report by Lucas, Spencer &
Claxton http://www.webcitation.org/6E3Tyir...
Why #openaccess is better for scholarly societies. Timely economic analysis by Harvard's Stuart Shieber @pmphlt - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphle...
Worth keeping an eye on: ALT Chair Claire Donlan's reports from the Coursera E-Learning and Digital Cultures course. - http://donlantechnologies.blogspot.co.uk/2013...
Hal Abelson writes about the review he is doing for MIT following the suicide of Aaron Swartz. Via @Joi - http://tech.mit.edu/V132...
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Elective dictatorship. Frank Coffield and the lack of legitimacy of policies imposed by education secretaries since 1988. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/educati...
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"The net effect of grammar schools is to disadvantage poor children and help the rich": @xtophercook FT analysis - http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata...
FE's "moral purpose". New BIS research shows exceptionally positive feedback relating to course perceptions - https://www.gov.uk/governm...
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#edcmooc Good. Profs associated with the AAUP (US UCU equiv.) doing the Edinburgh Coursera "E-learning & digital cultures". - http://academeblog.org/e-learn...
Open Library of Humanities (a proposed PLOS for Humanities) has a good line-up on its Steering and Advocacy Committee. - http://www.openlibhums.org/committ...
BBC Arena - enjoyable 90 minute documentary "Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer...
Worth watching> 1/2-hour interview from Davos with @timberners_lee. @25.5m: interesting passage about education. - http://www.weforum.org/session...
Worth reading> "The Eclipse of British Reason" by Joschka Fischer (German Foreign Minister 1998-2005). - http://www.project-syndicate.org/comment...
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Terrific, accessible, demystification of Debt and Deficits issues by @alittleecon via @jdportes - http://alittleecon.wordpress.com/2013...
"The DfE’s terror of sorting out struggling academies is going to become an ever-bigger problem." FT's @xtophercook - http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata...
Worth reading> A candid insider's & humanities scholar's view of MOOCs by Petra Dierkes-Thrun @petradt .@audreywatters - http://hastac.org/blogs...
"..someone will have to pay". John Gapper in the FT on pitfalls in #OA .."incentives to widen access and dilute quality" he asserts. - http://www.ft.com/cms...
"The less well-paid you are when you enter the labour
market, the more your degree will now cost" Ron Johnston in LSE P&P
blog - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politic...
Education Committee: "the qual & quant of guidance for young people deteriorating just when it is most needed" - http://www.parliament.uk/busines...
"There may be little prospect of increasing mobility
through state action" - depressing conclusion to mobility study for
England. - http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty...
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Technical Matters from @Policy_Exchange .@matthancockmp by Owen Corrigan has clear grasp of FE's major unsung value [PDF] - http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images...
.@OldDitch Great #datajournalism on the impact on the poor of GCSE reform, from FT's @xtophercook - http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata...
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North London public libraries revert on closure to All Souls College Oxford. What an *odd* country England is. - http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/news_de...
#bedroomtax A “must listen”. Govt Minister Lord Freud thinks a pull-out bed’s enough for 3 kids visiting at w/ends - http://audioboo.fm/boos...
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"Aaron Swartz: cannon fodder in the war on internet freedom" by @jjn1 John Naughton in The Observer 20/1/2013 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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Asda-owning Walmart "made the Bushmaster the most popular assault weapon in US". Via @DianeRavitch - http://dianeravitch.net/2013...
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.@bmcmatt a striking example of a society journal improving its impact factor following a move to #openaccess - http://twitpic.com/a1vdy3/full
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Systematising online tutoring. "Rules of engagement: developing the online tutor" - terrific peer-reviewed #altc2012 paper - http://www.researchinlearningt...
Hiding your research behind a paywall is immoral says vertebrate paleontologist Mike Taylor in this Guardian blog post - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...
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@JohnRentoul ONS chart showing a near doubling in UK's "severe material deprivation" 09 - 11? - http://www.neighbourhood.stati...
How well do children perform in England’s boroughs? Regression analysis by the FT's @xtophercook - http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata...?
ASU researcher shows #badscience at the heart of Gates Value Added study - http://ed2worlds.blogspot.co.uk/2013...
New from Houghton/Swan: "The most affordable & cost-effective means of moving towards OA .. is through Green OA." - http://www.dlib.org/dlib...
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Interesting, measured, well-informed presentation on #OA in the social sciences by Felice Levine of @AERA_EdResearch - http://www.acss.org.uk/docs...
Why have #MOOCs caught the academy's imagination so much more than #OA? 4 conjectures from @evdvelde - http://scitechsociety.blogspot.co.uk/2013...
Striking. All but 4 of 23 open online courses offered on Instructure's "Canvas Network" are full. https://www.canvas.net/
"Breaking with a bad orthodoxy" @NYTimeskrugman comments on Japan's giant capital spending programme - http://www.nytimes.com/2013...
10 ways to share PDFs of articles. A clear prioritised list by Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics #PDFtribute. - http://phylogenomics.blogspot.ca/2013...
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Hal Abelson http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac... asked by MIT to lead a "thorough analysis of MIT's involvement" with Aaron Swartz
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Interesting. An exploratory project led by @martin_eve
to set up a PLOS style journal for the humanities & social sciences
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WSJ piece by Korn & Levitz about the "big 3" MOOC providers' revenue options and learner numbers. - http://online.wsj.com/article...
Paul Fain gives an update in Inside HE on the fee-based option to be offered by @Coursera - http://www.insidehighered.com/news...
Very challenging. I'm with Will Self's "Terminal Thoughts" that society should be nudged to consider suicide acceptable. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/program...
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.@rmounce Interesting economic analysis (+ assessment tool) "Cost-effectiveness of #OpenAccess publications" - http://www.eigenfactor.org/openacc...
If online distance learning works for Further Maths A Level, why not for A Level Computer Science? - http://www.furthermaths.org.uk/tuition...
Jeffrey Beall highlights "OAJPA", a bogus new Open
Access Publisher Association attempting to compete with the legitimate
OASPA. - http://scholarlyoa.com/2013...
Why Every Researcher Should Sign Up For Their ORCID ID by @briankelly in UK Web Focus - http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013...
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Maths teacher @garyrubinstein demolishes Gates claims on Value Added. Response from Gates now needed. - http://garyrubinstein.teachforus.org/2013...
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"Review of the information environment for social science researchers", which I wrote with Nicky Ferguson. Public after six years. - http://www.therightplace.net/nf...
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Extremely classy "drillable" representation of data about women as academic authors, 1665-2010 - http://chronicle.com/article...
Gangnam Style makes "the 'disgusting guy' Bieber"
history, says Slavoj Žižek .@mediendidaktik 2:37m video + the full 114m
talk - http://www.openculture.com/2013...
Rereading Itiel Dror's TEL-focused 2008 article about the "3 Cs of learning": Control, Challenge, & Commitment [9 p PDF] - http://www.cci-hq.com/Dror_CT...
Food for thought: "Changing Course: 10 Years Tracking Online Education in the USA" - just out, by Allen & Seaman [PDF] - http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports...
A "gripping read" > "Rocketship’s Learning Labs & The Cost Of Personalization" @ddmeyer - http://blog.mrmeyer.com/...
[PDF] .@markguzdial Hake's "Interactive-engagement vs traditional methods etc" IE methods increase effectiveness. - http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi...
Merit Pay, Teacher Pay, & Value Added Measures by @DTWillingham squares well with Lissitz in http://ff.im/1aRouV - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"Evaluating Teachers and Schools Using Student Growth
Models" [PDF] by Schafer et al, challenges the value of "Value Added"
methods. - http://www.pareonline.net/pdf...
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LiquidFeedback: OSS for "proposition development & decision making" by http://www.public-software-group.org/ in Berlin - http://liquidfeedback.org/
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Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Clusters - interesting 12m 4 year 7th framework multi-partner project. - http://learning-layers.eu/project...
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Clear for a lay reader. "Google's Hybrid Approach to Research" in "Communications of the ACM" by Spector, Norvig and Petrov. - http://cacm.acm.org/magazin...
Never mind the metadata, feel the heuristic. Google Scholar's 4-point way to decide if content is "scholarly". - http://scholar.google.co.uk/intl...
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"Computer game teaches children about danger of
sickle-cell disease". Developed by Nigerian CS/AI researcher Yetunde
Folajimi whilst at DMU. - http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-d...
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Tinypass - a configurable service allowing individuals to micro-charge for content, taking much smaller % than Apple, say. - http://www.tinypass.com/faq/
Gatsby Curve. @SuttonTrust piece .@John__Field : US & UK have worst social mobility & (in 1985) income inequality. - http://thesuttontrust.wordpress.com/2013...
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Is the tide turning against the US version of Sahlberg's GERM http://goo.gl/9M8i9 ? @DianeRavitch is upbeat. - http://dianeravitch.net/2013...
Interesting critique by Illinois U psychology
researcher Daniel Simons of claims that video games "make you smarter".
The discussion thread is worth reading too. - http://blog.dansimons.com/2012...
.@gsiemens from University Ventures (VC business) a far from stupid white paper [big PDF] about TEL in HE http://www.webcitation.org/6DLON6c...
Interesting. Georgetown University's 3-tier $15k to $100k internal system of technology enhanced learning grants [PDF]. - https://itel.georgetown.edu/wp-cont...
Really good to see Clayton R. Wright being picked by as winner of the "Downes Prize 2012". - http://www.downes.ca/post...
Stunning. Huth's video abstract of Neuron article Semantic Representation in Human Brain & tool http://goo.gl/glCNQ - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Valuable: CMU's tool to help solve learning and teaching problems, structured under Problems, Reasons & Strategies. - http://www.cmu.edu/teachin...
In this interview with Ron Rosenbaum, Jaron Lanier takes his "You Are Not a Gadget" arguments a bit further. - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cu...
I'm v. remote from Yiddish but can see the point of @profserious 's "10 Essential Yiddish Words for Computer Scientists" - http://blog.prof.so/2012...
Two bits of magic. 1 Brubeck in Moscow - http://www.youtube.com/watch... 2 Glen Gould playing Bach's Goldberg Variations - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Walk Free (a newish campaign to end slavery in all its forms) deserves attention and support. - http://www.walkfree.org/en...
Ex-OU VC John Daniel understands mass ODL & has a long memory. So read his "Making Sense of MOOCs" in JIME http://jime.open.ac.uk/jime...
Difficult times. CETIS & UKOLN (http://goo.gl/wF1j3) put brave faces on JISC ceasing to provide core funds from 7/13. - http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/pah1...
Closes 4/13. Using dig. tech. to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. A funding round from EEF/Nominet. - http://educationendowmentfound...
Is there any UK equivalent to this coherent roundup of recent US research on market-based education reform? - http://shankerblog.org/?p=7300
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How the mighty failed. UKeU's 2002/3 Annual Report (big slow PDF) makes salutary reading. - http://web.archive.org/web...
Miller et al's "Caeser" system, from MIT CSAIL, splits up student (coding) assignments for speedy human marking/reviewing. - http://www.csail.mit.edu/node...
"Koomey's law" that the no. of computer cycles per unit of energy doubles every 1.57 y. is a new one on me. - http://www.economist.com/blogs...
Good to see that the UKeU Wikipedia page has been updated and its broken links fixed. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
#RLT #OA Pike/Adams bleak study of adult male distance learners in English prisons needs reading at the top of Govt. - http://www.researchinlearningt...
Useful coverage of the US Ed Tech lobby by @audreywatters in Part 10 of her Top Ed-Tech Trends 2012 series. - http://www.hackeducation.com/2012...
"Empowering the digitally excluded". #oa Special Issue of #RLT from @A_L_T edited by @BiIIDutton + @janeseale is out - http://www.researchinlearningt...
It's a tad quirky but why not join the Kiva Lending Team I'm in + @MooreAnswers @malpaso @cliveshepherd & others? - http://www.kiva.org/team...
96 1989 Sheffield Hillsborough inquest verdicts quashed by High Court. See also http://tinyurl.com/crslgqy - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
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"Instagram Got You Down? Don’t Be Fooled By Flickr" Terence Eden @edent recommends OpenPhoto. - http://shkspr.mobi/blog...
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"Invasion of the cyber hustlers", by Steven Poole, will make you stop and think, as will http://tinyurl.com/8jkndqc "Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks". - http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tec...
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Automation and AI in learning. Normally I do not post "Top n" lists. This segment of one by @audreywatters is different. - http://www.hackeducation.com/2012...
Utility vs. entertainment - Seth Godin's is absolutely spot-on with this summary of a current challenge. - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
2 million page views for "A site to discuss better education for all" by @DianeRavitch, started in April ’12 - http://dianeravitch.net/2012...
Rethinking Education Strategy. A lot of very interesting comparative data & policy material from the EU. - http://ec.europa.eu/educati...
The Directory of Open Access Journals is going to be under new management - IS40A - led by Alma Swan and Caroline Sutton - http://www.doaj.org/doaj...
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Nice clear overview of activity data and how analysing it can help by @serodavid and Mark van Harmelen - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publica...
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"21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia" article by Amber Thomas @ambrouk in Ariadne Issue 70, just out. - http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70...
http://tinyurl.com/bvx42yc (link fixed) The workless are neither "scroungers" nor "shirkers", shows Rowntree-funded research. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment...
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"The actual is sliced, diced, and winched forward only
to tumble off time's assembly line into the great slag heap of now."
Will Self's point of view today - http://www.bbc.co.uk/program... (10 minutes) - is not to be missed.
Worth reading Alastair Campbell's repost of "Team Gove's" rebuttal of AC's Any Questions blog @campbellclaret - http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog...
"How algorithms secretly shape the way we behave" by @jjn1 in today's Observer. http://tinyurl.com/cok6hwk also relevant - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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"Learning GCSE mathematics through discussion." Important study by Michael Swan. Focuses on the "retake challenge". - https://www.ncetm.org.uk/public...
Kurzweil (at the far end of the machines with consciousness spectrum http://goo.gl/yvy4H) joins Google as Director of engineering. Hmmmm. See also this 19 November 2012 talk by Kurzweil at Google - http://www.youtube.com/watch.... - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
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2 m. thank-you video by Jimmy Wales & @jrodwyer after #SaveRichard success. http://tinyurl.com/m36mxm has more. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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A study by "Branded3" showing that URLs which get (or
possibly got....) tweeted at least a bit boost their Google search
ranking. - http://www.branded3.com/tweets-...
Charles Oppenheim calmly counters Dingwall/AcSS/Sage's "Why Open Access is Good News for Neo-Nazis". - http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2012...
University College London's Clive Young reports positively about UCL's use of the @A_L_T certification scheme CMALT - http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/the-dig...
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I plugged Shirky's Napster, Udacity, and the Academy. Here is Aaron Brady's counter view. - http://www.insidehighered.com/views...
Interesting @Andrew_Adonis review of Chrystia Freeland's book Plutocrats (who've done *extremely* well in the last 10 years). - http://andrewadonis.com/2012...
Good stuff from NOCN with this Chartered Institute of Housing backed course for ex-cons about being a model tenant. - http://www.housingexcellence.co.uk/news...
An hour of unprecedented discussion in Parliament in the wake of the De Silva report into the murder of Pat Finucane
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main... - http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main...
"Wrong risks and missed opportunities" says @CameronNeylon in response to http://tinyurl.com/bx2ovpx from 21 History Journals - http://cameronneylon.net/blog...
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Will Thalheimer's list of 12 most important learning factors is worth keeping to hand. - http://eppic.biz/...
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"How to tune up your Gmail experience". Terrific distillation by Sheffield University's Graham McElearney. - http://learningtechnologiestea...
The New Yorker's John Cassidy explains why the US should not emulate the UK's failing austerity economics - via @AJCann - http://www.newyorker.com/online...
40 page report from Ofsted "Promoting enterprise in vocational courses for 16-19-year-old students in colleges" - http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resourc...
Very interesting overview of NEET nos & types in Europe, with the UK having High and Low NEET rates at the same time. - http://jobmarketmonitor.com/2012...
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Not enough investment & focus in FE on TEL according to @davidhniace (Chief Executive of NIACE) reports Eleanor Radford. - http://feweek.co.uk/2012...
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Duolingo (Luis "Recaptcha" von Ahn's translation service driven by language learners) has a very smart business model. - http://www.technologyreview.com/news...
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"The Quest for Educational Excellence" by Andy Hargreaves & Dennis Shirley ftp://ftp.sagepub.com/HawkerB... [256 p. PDF] gives a thorough global perspective on what works & why. Download to read it at your leisure.
Via @MooreAnswers & worth reading [5 p. PDF] "MDA:
A Formal Approach to Game Design & Game Research" by Hunicke,
LeBlanc & Zubek - http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunick...
Apart from its offensive "ginger stepchild" reference, The Economist's piece on vocational education is worth reading. - http://www.economist.com/news...
Typically coherent stuff from @mfeldstein67: "Why the
Cisco Networking Academy Partnership with Instructure is Important for
Education" - http://mfeldstein.com/why-cis...
@dkernohan criticises @ZoeCorbyn for ignoring @downes @gsiemens (& Kernohan) in this MOOC piece in the THE - http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story...
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Pseudoteaching. Rereading the wonderful piece by Frank Noschese linked from here - http://fm.schmoller.net/2011...
Wonderful clip of Dave Brubeck improvising on a Russian folk theme in Moscow, joined by a young violinist - via @dweinberger - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Enlightening Scientific American post - The meteoric
ascent of the patent troll & the devastating consequences for
innovation - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-b...
JISC announces its for-the-long-run non-executive
directors and trustees, with a set of short video interviews with each
of them. - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news...
The shock of the old. Interesting 4 m BBC video about
lifts, their testing & development, & the limit they impose on
building height. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
@donaldclark comments on the (interesting) acquisition of e-learning business Kineo by the awarding body City & Guilds - http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
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