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OLDaily, acrónimo de Online Learning Daily, es un boletín sobre e-learning mantenido por Stephen Downes.
OLDaily
https://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
OLDaily, acrónimo de Online Learning Daily, es un boletín sobre e-learning mantenido por Stephen Downes.
Connectivism: My PhD journey in few lines
Publicado en OLDaily el 24/05/2022
This article recounts a fascinating research program based in a solid understanding of connectivism and a desire to push at its limits and determine whether there's actually anything of value there. The article is a brisk overview of Alaa AlDahdouh's journey, punctuated with the publications he produced along the way. In the end, he argues that Connectivism "provides a...
Leer másFacebook Working on a Udemy Competitor?
Publicado en OLDaily el 24/05/2022
Oh this is interesting. Manoel Cortes Mendez writes, "I got an email from Facebook offering $300 'for teaching your classes on Facebook.'... Facebook is experimenting with letting individuals offer courses through their platform, much like Udemy does." The program looks to be...
Leer máshttps://bdtechtalks.com/2022/05/23/machine-learning-undetectable-backdoors/
Publicado en OLDaily el 24/05/2022
Other people look at an article like this and say "oh my, the tech is broken". I look at it and say "this is what's already being done to children". In this specific case, a 'backdoor' is a way of implanting secret behaviours into in a machine learning model. As a rough analogy, think of...
Leer másInnovation in Higher Education. Wait, what?
Publicado en OLDaily el 24/05/2022
So many articles on innovation follow this format. We are told that 'innovation' isn't about the creation of a new idea, it's the act of putting that idea into practice, or solving real problems. Alexandra Mihai has a good list of of what the term means, in this context. But...
Leer másEthical Design Nudging Supports Autonomy and Transparency
Publicado en OLDaily el 24/05/2022
A 'nudge' is "any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people's behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options, or significantly changing their economic incentives" and a 'privacy nudge' inclines the user toward opting for greater privacy. It is described in...
Leer másCORE: Our commitment to The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure
Publicado en OLDaily el 24/05/2022
Based in the U.K., CORE is a large collection of academic research papers, including open access papers. Though it's based on service agreement between the Open University and Jisc, I think it can be used outside the U.K. (it gave me an API key without complaint). This post affirms COREe's commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI), "a set of guidelines by which open scholarly...
Leer másRun functions on demand. Scale automatically.
Publicado en OLDaily el 24/05/2022
To be clear, this isn't anything you can use right now without a lot of knowledge and patience (as the documentation would suggest). Imagine a future world, however, where you can create a web page that uses a function ('...
Leer másPublicado en OLDaily el 20/05/2022
In this presentation I outline the development of MOOCs, discuss the impact of the pandemic, and suggest several ways MOOCs will grow and develop in the future, including through the use of web3 technologies, live linked data, artificial intelligence, and the metaverse.
Iranian Conference of Health Professions Education (ICHPE), Tehran, Iran, by Zoom () May 20, 2022 [Link] [Slides] [Video] [] Leer másStudents, higher ed leaders diverge on post-COVID priorities
Publicado en OLDaily el 20/05/2022
The storyline: "one in four college leaders said their institutions don't plan to offer remote or virtual class options by 2025. But 63% of students said they preferred fully online classes or classes that blend in-person and remote learning." Now note that this means 75% of...
Leer másThe Market Fall of EdTech Will Have Non-Financial Impacts
Publicado en OLDaily el 20/05/2022
Michael Feldstein writes, " Derek Newton expanded on this thread at Forbes with yesterday's It's Been A 'Brutal' Year for Public...
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