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Evaluating risk is hard and I rarely see it done properly. You have to consider not only the likelihood of it happening in a given time frame, you also have to evaluate the severity of the impact. Also, risk depends on content - what's a risk for you may be an opportunity for me. That's why your survey sample matters - and you have an 'executive panel of education experts' like this...

Yahoo Groups used to be a staple, being one of the first online community sites (Google Groups came much later). But now it's being killed by Yahoo. "Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 28 you won't be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the...

In many ways this article (7 page PDF) leaves me with more questions than answers (the authors at one point observe "the terminal efficiency of the course is far above from what the evidence suggests") but the case is made, I think,...

In an initiative to "focus on impact directly rather than the proxy of time spent with BBC content," the BBC launched an initiative to find out what exactly people value. Think of it as an updated Maslow's hierarchy, backed by research (note that I would imagine results might vary in different countries). The findings (...

How many ways could we use something like this? "Streamsheets are server-based spreadsheets that consume, process and produce data streams. Data streams can originate from many sources, such as sensors, machines, websites, data bases, applications and many more.... All of this is happening...

This article (15 page PDF) is a good way to open IRRODL's special issue on open and distance universities (ODU) even if it is based on only eight...