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Jon Dron bookmarked So, this is a thing...- Nina Sebastian replied on the discussion topic Unit 2: Food for Thought
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We need help: Athabasca University is facing an existential threat from the government of Alberta
By Jon Dron 5 August 2022 @ 4:26pmwww.youtube.com - This video from Peter Scott, president of Athabasca University, is a clear, eloquent, and passionate plea to save our university and the education of its students from imminent destruction at the hands of a brutal, self-serving, short-sighted...We shape our buildings and, afterwards, our buildings shape us: some lessons in how not to build an...
By Jon Dron August 14, 2022 - 1:44pmThis is an analysis of the problems that currently beset Athabasca University and a plea to prevent it but, more generally, it is a discussion of the ways that the decisions we have made affect who we are, and how we develop.Unit 5 - Javascript Learning Diary
By Hassan Jasim in the group COMP 266 August 25, 2022 - 2:15pmPosted to group: COMP 266In this unit, I tackled JavaScript more in-depth. I defined 4 functions that I was going to develop, created workflow diagrams for each and pseudo code for them as well. This was a little different than what I am normally used to as with most...Thanks @demetriosnAB for your generous offer. We completely misunderstood that you wanted to help...
By Jon Dron August 8, 2022 - 10:00amDear Demetrios NicolaidesYou say,“I’ve offered to provide any kind of assistance that the university needs. They haven’t asked for any.”This is very kind! I am sorry for all the very, very, very bad thoughts I have been...My latest paper, "Learning, Technology, and Technique", now online in the Canadian...
By Jon Dron 10 August 2022 @ 7:50pmcjlt.ca - This is my latest paper, Learning, Technology, and Technique, in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (Vol. 48 No. 1, 2022). Essentially, because this was what I was invited to do, the paper shrinks down over...The limits and limitations of business requirements
By Jon Dron July 28, 2022 - 4:11pmAthabasca University's Digital Governance Committee recently got into a heated debate about whether and why we should support Zoom. It was a classic IT manageability vs user freedom debate and, as is often the way in such things, the suggested...
A guide to the Student Server
Started by Kimberly Lindsay in the group COMP 266 January 29, 2022 - 3:15pm Replies (9) Last reply by Shivam Vyas April 20, 2022 - 3:43pmPosted to group: COMP 266Hey everyone, I really struggled with this incredibly simple task for way too long and had a lot of responses that didn't fully answer my questions, so I made a quick reference guide for the newbies who aren't sure how to upload their .html files to...Just a Game? Study Shows No Evidence That Violent Video Games Lead To Real-Life Violence -...
By Jon Dron 6 November 2021 @ 11:32amneurosciencenews.com - This is a report on a plausible US-based study on the effects of violent video games, with a fairly large number of subjects (all boys for the detailed study, though also investigating broader patterns across genders). It finds no causal...JavaFX .bat files for ease of use (Windows 10)
Started by Daley April 20, 2021 - 11:50am Replies (3) Last reply by Caterina July 24, 2021 - 10:27amHello everyone, I set up JavaFX on my computer when I first started the course, but hadn't used it any serious capacity until just yesterday. While I was using it, I made use of 2 batch files to call the appropriate commands required on windows...COMP372 Exercise 16.2-3
By Guangya Wang in the group COMP372 Design and Analysis of Algorithms September 22, 2021 - 12:24pmPosted to group: COMP372 Design and Analysis of AlgorithmsAs the question describes, the order by increasing weight is the same with order by decreasing value. That means the first item ordered in this way has the biggest value per pound. By intuition, the first item must be put into the knapsack to get...The electrified oak tree in Frankenstein
By Megan White August 7, 2021 - 6:17am Comments (1)During the storm that young Victor witnesses in Belrive, an oak tree is stuck by lightning and subsequently mangled. “I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak” (47). This is an interesting scene for a few reasons,...- By Mike Sosteric December 29, 2020 - 9:08amCannabis reverses ageing process in the brain, study suggests https:/
/ www.sciencedaily.com/ releases/ 2017/ 05/ 170508112400.htm Of STEAM, 'zines, and heavy metal Jupiters
By Mark A. McCutcheon November 11, 2020 - 9:21pmThis week I've been tuning in to #exodem, a NASA-CalTech conference on exoplanet science (free, fully open online, and so, so smoothly run). A writer, who's a former student and AU alum, is collaborating with the organizers on a STEAM outreach...Echoes and polarization in Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter: it's not just about the algorithms
By Jon Dron 30 October 2020 @ 3:48pmwww.washingtonpost.com - The authors of a recent paywalled article in MIS Quarterly here summarize their findings in another restrictive and normally paywalled site, the Washington Post. At least the latter gives some access - I was able to read it without forking out $15,...We still need to unlock the web
By Jon Dron 26 September 2020 @ 11:20amPosted to group: COMP 650: Social Computingwerd.io - This is a bit of brainstorming by the ever wonderful and utterly brilliant Ben Werdmüller von Elgg (one of the originators of the Elgg social media framework that sits under the Landing) on methods and standards for setting up payments for...Distributed Teaching
By Jon Dron 16 May 2020 @ 10:14am Comments (3)link.springer.com - I forgot to share this when it first came out at the end of last year. This is my contribution to Springer's Encyclopedia of Teacher Education, a brief (3000 word) article that gives a broad overview of the main ways in which the role of a teacher...
Unit 7 - API Ideas
By Hassan Jasim in the group COMP 266 August 25, 2022 - 4:54pmPosted to group: COMP 266In this document I have focused on quality of the code over quantity, I have only implemented features that are useful to the personas I created in unit 1 and haven’t implemented gimmicky features that don’t serve the personas any...We need help: Athabasca University is facing an existential threat from the government of Alberta
By Jon Dron 5 August 2022 @ 4:26pmwww.youtube.com - This video from Peter Scott, president of Athabasca University, is a clear, eloquent, and passionate plea to save our university and the education of its students from imminent destruction at the hands of a brutal, self-serving, short-sighted...The Robotics Primer: Chapter 11
By Adam Kroeker August 3, 2022 - 12:24pmMy answers to the Food for Thought questions.Unit 6 Jquery proposal
By CHENXIN ZHANG in the group COMP 266 May 24, 2022 - 10:46pmPosted to group: COMP 266I would like to make a quiz to the users so that the answer a series of questions.Each answer has a underlying “investment style ”score. The scores adds up if user answers these questions. And according to their score at the end....Week Two: Goals for This Course
By Megan Pierobon May 20, 2022 - 7:51amThe readings and assignments in week one and two of the Academic Writing for Graduate Students course, have revealed areas in my writing that I would like to develop throughout this course. Some issues with my writing are: developing an argument or...
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