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How virtual work is accelerating innovation
Publicado en OLDaily el 09/06/2022
Why do open and distance education students drop out? Views from various stakeholders
Publicado en OLDaily el 09/06/2022
What makes this paper unique is that it considers the question from a variety of perspectives: students, field experts, instructors, administrators, and support staff. The authors argue, "students decide to drop out mainly due to four main reasons: internal reasons,...
Leer másMoving Beyond SAMR with the Rigor Relevance Framework
Publicado en OLDaily el 09/06/2022
Part of my work in the coming year will involve looking more at techn ology adoption models, of which one of the grand daddies is the substitution augumentation modification replacement (SAMR) framework. In this article Eric Sheninger describes an alternative, the Rigor Relevance Framework, which he argues is much less tech centered than SAMR and "provides a common...
Leer másA Standardized, Specification-Driven API Lifecycle
Publicado en OLDaily el 09/06/2022
Brisk terse article based on a presentation arguing for the use of application programming interface (API) specifications." One spec for an API can be used to generate docs, mocks, tests, secure that API, and then generate the code you're going to use to actually bring that API to life."...
Leer másBalancing optimism with caution in higher ed AI
Publicado en OLDaily el 08/06/2022
This is a short article but it makes several very good points administrators in higher education should keep in mind before adopting artificial intelligence:
- "match the tool to the purpose" - and indeed, have a purpose
- "invest in data capabilities first" - this includes data management, ethics and policies, and overall data literacy
- guide and leverage AI with human interpretation
- be informed and critical about AI, knowing what it...
A framework for enterprise AI adoption
Publicado en OLDaily el 08/06/2022
Ben Dickson summarizes Demystifying AI for the Enterprise, a book...
Leer másAs Challenges in Education Persist, Our Coverage Will Elevate Educator Voices
Publicado en OLDaily el 08/06/2022
I'm not sure how much I believe this, given what EdSurge has published in the past. It here touts its Voices of Change project, "creating opportunities for educators to reflect, share and learn from one another through journalism, storytelling and research." The problem is that this content is...
Leer másEnd Student Debt. Own your University.
Publicado en OLDaily el 08/06/2022
This is an interesting idea that might work or (more likely) is completely unworkable. Here's the Product Hunt pitch: "UniversityDAO is a decentralized autonomous university aiming to end student debt and empower Universities to own their university through the tokenization of the University system." Here's a...
Leer másPublicado en OLDaily el 08/06/2022
I rarely post single-link YouTube (SLYT) posts, but you will want to watch this 20 minute video. In a very well produced presentation Yannic Kilcher describes how he trained a GPT bot on some of the worst and vile discussion threads on 4chan and produced a convincing result,...
Leer másWhat we talk about when we're talking about "Webmentions"
Publicado en OLDaily el 07/06/2022
Way back in 2002 I built something called the Referrer System that found links to your web page and listed them. All you had to do is put a little Javascript snippit on your page. It became really popular and broke my server and also attracted a lot of spam. WebMentions performs...
Leer másThe Digital Divide in How We Use the Internet
Publicado en OLDaily el 07/06/2022
We're familiar with the digital divide defined in terms of access, but Irving Wladawsky-Berger, citing Esteban Moro, argues that there's a second digital divide, this one defined by how we use the internet. In a nutshell, for higher income and education demographics...
Leer másMet police profiling children ‘on a large scale’, documents show
Publicado en OLDaily el 07/06/2022
According to this report, the Metropolitan police "has been collecting 'children's personal data' from social media sites as part of a project to carry out 'profiling on a large scale'." I...
Leer másUSask Moving to Poll Everywhere for Student Response System
Publicado en OLDaily el 07/06/2022
I know, it's not the most ground-shaking event in the world, but I wanted to take note of this, if only to reaffirm that student response systems exist and that Poll Everywhere is one. It makes me wonder about wider applications of the...
Leer másFirefox Can Now Translate Pages Without Sacrificing Privacy
Publicado en OLDaily el 07/06/2022
This is the sort of AI service that we should be looking for. "Firefox can translate pages on your computer without telling Google, Microsoft, or any other translation company what you're looking at." This is important because it preserves user privacy. The set of languages is...
Leer másDisagreement and Values in Science
Publicado en OLDaily el 06/06/2022
Why do scientists and theorists disagree? It's not a matter of the evidence, which may be the same on all sides. It may, however, be an epistemic question: should we prefer simpler theories? Unifying theories? Or, it may be a non-epistemic question...
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