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After having seen one too many Urchin Tracking Module (UTM) tracking elements in website addresses (I have been removing these manually from the links I post in OLDaily) I decided to search for a way to...

This is a summary report from the Sakai conference last November. Sakai is an open source LMS developed and used primarily by huge universities. This summary is chock-full of fantastic tidbits. There's a video, for example, on the Sakai...

There is, to be sure, a danger of 'feelgoodism' in education, as Black Harvard warns. A lot of it comes from, and is directed toward, school teachers and the consultants who...

I followed up today on a question about data modeling tools. Data modeling is the process of organizing data and defining the relations between different types of data. Here is a quick introduction. A...

This paper (26 page PDF) discusses seven macro-level trends:

• convergence - in the sense of 'blurring' modalities
• massification - the many faces of MOOCs and expansion into schools
• openness - looking for "more open dialogue and critical pluriversalism"
• interactivity - new concepts of presence, pedagogy of care, deep conversations
• diversification - beyond the LMS "as a complex...

Good thread with what I think is a pretty typical problem and a lot of good advice in what to do. Long story short: the student is working at a company as part of his Master's Thesis, he's doing an AI project, and it's not going well, and he's having doubts about the whole thing. Most people...

Jennifer Gonzalez talks about "an emerging group of tools is trying to bridge that gap, using VR technology to create online spaces that feel more three-dimensional, allowing participants to move through virtual spaces as if they are physically in a room together." One such is Frame,...