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By Jon Dron 14 April 2021 @ 12:55pmwww.aare.edu.au - Andrew Norton claims that online learning will never be a substitute for face-to-face learning. Indeed. Here are some other equally useful and true claims: electric vehicles will never be a substitute for gasoline-fueled vehicles; cellphones...What really impacts the use of active learning in undergraduate STEM education? Results from a...
By Jon Dron 8 April 2021 @ 9:38pmjournals.plos.org - This is a report on an interesting study by Naneh Apkarian et al, that asked a large-ish number (3796) of in-person American STEM profs (college and university levels) about the effects of various known factors on their use of active learning...My latest paper - Educational technology: what it is and how it works
By Jon Dron 4 April 2021 @ 11:42amhttps://rdcu.be/ch1tl - This is a link to my latest paper in the journal AI & Society. You can read it in a web browser from there, but it is not directly downloadable. A preprint of the submitted version (some small differences and uncorrected errors here and there,...Incarceration in Real Numbers
By Jon Dron 16 March 2021 @ 2:12pmmkorostoff.github.io - This is stunning, both in terms of content and in terms of its presentation. The content is depressingly familiar - the fact that the US incarcerates (in real numbers and as a percentage of population) vastly more people than any other country in...Affordable Internet for Canada - Virtual Day of Action today (March 16)
By Jon Dron 16 March 2021 @ 10:32am Comments (2)affordable-internet.ca - This is a timely event, running today via Zoom, as Rogers unexpectedly announce an attempted takeover of Shaw, thereby not only acquiring Shaw's extensive cable Internet and TV business, but also one of the last remaining serious competitors to the...EdTech Books
By Jon Dron 24 November 2020 @ 12:57pm Comments (8)https://edtechbooks.org/ - This is a great, well presented and nicely curated selection of open books on education and educational technology, ranging from classics (and compilations of chapters by classic authors) to modern guides, textbooks, and blog compilations, covering...UBCO study says it’s not if, but how people use social media that impacts their well-being
By Jon Dron 16 November 2020 @ 6:04pm Comments (1)Posted to group: COMP 650: Social Computingnews.ok.ubc.ca - This is a report on an interesting study which, unsurprisingly, confirms previous findings that the use of popular social media (in this case Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) correlates very closely with negative feelings, reduced well-being, and...Course Content - London Interdisciplinary School
By Jon Dron 6 November 2020 @ 12:23pm Comments (2)www.londoninterdisciplinaryschool.org - For those in other parts of the world, some translation may be needed here in order to understand what is novel about the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS): a course in the UK is equivalent to a program in North America, and a module is...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,...Brief Psychodynamic Therapy
By Shannon Parker 21 October 2020 @ 3:04pmwww.guidetopsychology.com - This is an excellent explanation for brief psychodynamic therapy. They explain how this can be done in as little as one session and is mainly for someone who normally functions well but may have developed some psychiatric symtpoms and therefore does...
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Let's just skip the middle man and fail to submit it.
Jon Dron yesterday
I would be honored to be selected to co-author a paper with you. However I understand your selection criteria may be high, and you may choose not to select me, in either case, it is an honor to be selected, or not.
Trevor K yesterday
Nice find! As a philosophy graduate with an ongoing interest in ethics I have much enjoyed the series myself. I believe that the writing team included professional philosophers to help generate and critique the plot, so there's a lot of academic depth hiding just beneath the entertaining and absurd surface. It's quite fun trying to spot the philosophers/schools of philosophy being called upon in each episode, as well as in the broader trajectory of the plot.
Jon Dron October 22, 2021 - 9:54am
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Trevor K yesterday