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The Internet is made of people, not things.

What will we do with the information when we also know the heart rate of students as they're accessing (or not accessing) a course?

I am worried that students' own laptop cameras might be used to monitor them while they take tests.

But my own personal curiosity and fascination are outweighed by my concern at the degree to which similar devices are being used in education to monitor and police learning.

The center must hold.

The right attacks immigrants while the left rails at bankers, but the spirit of insurgency, the venting of anger at those in power and the addiction to simple, demagogic answers to complex problems are the same for both extremes. Underlying it all is a shared hostility to globalization.

Look for existing networks for collaboration that could be adapted to fit the strategy if formal networks are desired.

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OER must have the right metadata

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the Foundation will provide enhanced support for grantee collaboration.

the technical basis for OER

robust and flexible infrastructure.

Moreover, ZTC degrees ensure that the benefits of open materials follow students from enrollment to graduation, allowing for a pathway of personalized courses that guide students toward completing their degrees.

Open materials can empower faculty with the aca-demic freedom to tailor their courses to their students’ needs and even engage students in meaningful learning experiences through adaptation and improvement of the open content itself.10

reserve part of its portfolio to con-tinue funding the infrastructure necessary to support the field

Therefore, we refreshed our OER strategy to focus on our goal of using grants to help OER reach mainstream adoption.

high-quality academic materials

Suddenly, our student-created textbook was turning into a cacophonous, heteroglossic tapestry of voices talking to each other about the literature. 

which allows readers to take notes on the text digitally. 

Don’t worry about producing a beautiful, flawless textbook.

often revised them after we discussed the text in class if they thought they could improve them. 

If you are somewhat tech-savvy and comfortable playing around with things, you could definitely teach yourself the basics in an hour or so.

I hired a bunch of undergrad students and recent alums, and paid them out of my own pocket to assist me.

and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

and refreshed OER strategy.

The infrastructure

Develop innovative OER models

the frustration faculty members sometimes feel when searching for open content to include in their courses.

thinking more broadly about what ‘open’ means and how open connects to a variety of different areas

good mentor

Research has clearly shown

This one tool, which played a part in just one course for five students,

There is an interesting angle here in that Sakai is open source yet data is not easily recoverable.

He was playing a role, the party guy, the proprietor of the china shop in the time of the bull.

Obama’s net job-approval rating has risen nearly 20 points since Trump became the G.O.P. front-runner and the party’s inescapable face last summer.

Four years later, the leader of what many Republicans had hoped was a nativist fringe movement is the party’s presumed nominee.

(Jindal dropped out in November; Trump barely bothered to insult him.)

and other lower-body drivers.

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Priebus was saying in effect that it would be possible to build a wall around Donald Trump and not have the G.O.P. pay for it.

listening to Newt Gingrich speeches on cassettes in his car — party-guy things.

A lively sequence can stoke flirtatious undertones or show off sparkling wit. One perfectly chosen emoji could suspend a mood in time, like an ’80s movie that ends on an exultant freeze frame.

With a few exceptions — “The Wire,” notably — TV drama resists the idea that characters’ outcomes are fated, as in Greek tragedy, by larger powers. It wants its protagonists to steer the ship, not to be carried by the current.

lingering for an extra look at the mauling of the man who brutalized her.

And about that: Do we really think Jon would have gone forward with “what we have” had he known Arryn reinforcements might be arriving soon? How many more men died, on both sides, because Sansa didn’t tell Jon about her letter to Littlefinger and what it could bring?

Should faculty (and even students) have a greater say in which tools the university chooses instead of constantly finding themselves as consumers of those forced upon them by the institution?

One of the things that is oft-repeated in our line of work is “it’s not about the technology,” or “it’s not about the tool!”

Today, the  path to regaining control lies less in writing super-large chunks of code and more in forming consortia that serve a variety of purposes.

About a decade ago, there was surge of impatience with the LMS, similar to what we are seeing today. So the community banded together and jointly wrote code to create an open source LMS, called Sakai.

like a necklace.

Configurations Canvas Moodle Blackboard Sakai Desire2Learn

this is the type of context from which the user is accessing the app. If it's provided, this will most likely be CourseSection

Learner Instructor

unique id referencing the user accessing the app. providers should consider this id an opaque identifier.

But the biggest gains in insight come when we deconstruct documents into their component pieces and allow their reassembly into new understandings.

Why would you manage and update past speech acts to be less context-driven (Garden) when you could just make new speech acts for a new context (Stream)?

For some things this makes sense, but for others an endless proliferation variations and different takes is a net positive. Wikity tries to harness this power of proliferation over consolidation.

including passing scores from the provider back to the gradebook of the consumer,

specific course

What is clear is that the LMS has been highly successful in enabling the administrationof learning but less so in enabling learning itself.

A mash-up is a web page or application that “uses content from more than one source to create a single new service displayed in a single graphical interface.”8Hence it uses a heterogeneity of components to produce a homogeneity of function.

Clusters of institutions could form consortia (such as Unizin or C-BEN)10to set up co-ops to provide a buffet of apps and other tools, either purchased or donated. In this case, each institution’s learning environment would be a unique blend of these components

The Experience API is an example of an API that “makes itpossible to collect data about the wide range of experiences a person has (online and offline).”

Tomorrow’s system environments will better integrate collaboration and engagement features into the user experience, allowing faculty to easily make these features an integral part of their courses and providing students with flexible, varied, and ongoing means of engagement.

Feedback about your performance compared to that of other students*

Define potential investments to accelerate the development of the next generation digital learning environment.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

a component-based approach that introduces flexibility and variability to address learning needs more specifically

creating the NGDLE will require co-ordinated efforts among vendors, colleges and universities, and standards bodies,

mind-set

and Instructure

the LMS is valuable for handling the administrative duties of a course, it is less successful in effectively facilitating learning, especially as higher education actively develops new course models and pedagogical approaches.

Because they conform to the standards set by the learning environment,

a useful label for strategic thinking about the future of learning environments in higher education.

NGDLE "sightings "—nascent initiatives and developments that are moving in the direction of the NGDLE

the growing appreciation of and support for openness based on interoperability standards;

It’s a pretty cool technology that has come a long way in the last few years.

to find employees with the skills needed to navigate the future.

The specialist is dead. Long live the entrepreneur. As a result, the entire definition of what it takes to be literate has changed.

Find and vet information online. In the digital world, being able to not only find information online but also determine its quality and validity is crucial.

Some people have argued that widespread literacy (understood as reading at an eighth-grade level) was about making sure factory workers could read manuals well enough to keep machines running, rather than about providing for an informed citizenry. The equivalent for digital literacy would be to define it simply as being able to learn software quickly. Instead, digital literacy should be defined as knowing the effective practices suited to the dominant media. We should not teach students just the skills that will prepare them to follow instructions or quickly comprehend a user interface; instead we should aim to help students develop the expertise that will allow them to combine and create technologies to develop new and dynamic solutions. Just as traditional literacy and the liberal arts have been the key to independence since the advent of public schooling, digital literacy today is about intellectual freedom (see figure 1).

Despite having grown up with access to an increasing amount of technology, students now need to learn how to use technology to solve problems in academic and professional settings.

The people who were comfortable at this humanities-technology intersection helped to create the human-machine symbiosis that is at the core of this story. Walter Isaacson, "The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution" (2014)

Design and create digital solutions. Ultimately students should build a skill set that allows them to develop or customize their own digital tools. This does not necessarily mean that students need to be able to write their own applications from scratch. Rather, they should be comfortable customizing and combining tools to create a complete solution—for example, creating a web-form to automate the collection of customer evaluations and then outputting the results to a spreadsheet for analysis.

Resistance, however, is as futile

“The infrastructure in this city of millions is the people themselves providing, being there for others.

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In the broader culture, it’s hard not to stumble a little over the phrase, “without consent.”

her role as a prominent working woman, and hence a symbol of feminism at a time when feminism is under siege.

“telescopic philanthropy,”

Like horse-racing, Hillary-hating has become one of those national pastimes which unite the élite and the lumpen

In his remarks today, President Obama disgracefully refused to even say the words 'Radical Islam'.

According to Pew, 99% of people in Afghanistan support oppressive Sharia Law.

“If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore,” Trump said in a statement posted on his campaign’s Web site. “Because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen—and it is only going to get worse. I am trying to save lives and prevent the next terrorist attack. We can’t afford to be politically correct anymore.”

rancid wit

most systems try to adapt the paper-and-pen paradigm to the digital world. That’s why many systems suffer from several shortcomings inherent in the paper-and-pen paradigm.

The growth in web-based learning materials and information sources has created requirement for systems that allow annotations to be attached to these new sources and, potentially, shared with other learners.

delightful,

The Web

because it was built on egali-tarian principles

The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in geneva, switzer-land, in December 1990.

Death!Plop.

I asked about “conversation”, “dialogue”, and “community”. Her responses showed that these are, for Coursera, an afterthought. And after playing around inside the guts of the tool, it remains clear to me that these are, indeed, an afterthought. All the proof I need is that it’s about ten times easier to upload a video, and track the watching of that video, than it is to administer the discussion forum.

barges down in

This was 1982

I’m too much of a fighter.

and they set it forth in something called the Declaration of Sentiments,

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And here’s a pleasant surprise: This is not a pro-bono project.

Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday called Donald J. Trump’s criticism of a federal judge of Hispanic heritage “the textbook definition of a racist comment” and said he “regrets” the remark. But Mr. Ryan also reiterated his support for Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

He said, “I believe that we have more common ground on the policy issues of the day and we have more likelihood of getting our policies enacted with him than with her.”

Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday called Donald J. Trump’s criticism of a Hispanic-American judge “the textbook definition of a racist comment” and said he “regrets” the remark. But Mr. Ryan also reiterated his support for Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, against Hillary Clinton.

The Internet is going the way of the Weblog, the Electronic Message and the World Wide Web.

The Wailing Wailers is one that has been available since its original 1966 release, specifically by New England’s Heartbeat Records. Heartbeat lovingly reissued a good number of Studio One releases from 1983 through to the mid-'00s, but changes in the music industry meant that Heartbeat petered out.

It’s like a Tarantino remake of “The Harder They Come” but with a soundtrack by Bob Marley and a script by Oliver Stone and William Faulkner, with maybe a little creative boost from some primo ganja.

Do not read your paper at the Annual Meeting. This is the top complaint from audience members each year.  Proposals that refer to the presentation as “this paper” will not be considered.  Speakers that read papers will not be accepted for future presentations.

an “I made more money than you” certificate.

And this is crucial to our talk here, because these abilities – to link, annotate, change, summarize, copy, and share — these are the verbs of gardening.

The internal guidebooks for employees of Trump University provide a detailed set of instructions for how to sell the classes, even to skeptical and reluctant consumers, by tapping into their psychological needs.

Joe Lacob, the Warriors’ owner, who, upon spotting Thompson after Game 6, went down on one knee and bowed.

That frogs and toads shouldn’t be trusted with basic garden work? Lobel’s ending,

citing Mrs. Clinton’s establishment ties

turn away from his candidacy en masse.

an almost uniformly white primary electorate.

In other words, if you offer your software on an open and free basis, any use is fair use. 

Make sure your audience will leave with tangible tools than be exhausted from word vomit.

SSRN had one of the early freemium business models for an open access service.

that OER can provide benefits to some schools, but that commercial resources will continue to have value because of the tech-based enhancements, in analytics and adaptive learning and other areas, that they offer beyond academic content.

Apple and Maine education officials are allowing school districts to trade in iPads for laptops after teachers and students say the computers are better for schoolwork.