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JavaScript Is Eating The World
By Jon Dron 25 August 2017 @ 1:37pmPosted to group: COMP 266dev.to - Welcome news for students of COMP266 - skills in JavaScript are becoming more and more valuable every day, albeit driven mainly by NodeJS, the dominant server-side variant of JavaScript that is not (yet) addressed in the course. JavaScript... -
Clarifying the Details of Martin Buber's Existential Philosophy
By Nisha Mohan 2 August 2017 @ 10:12amwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Attached is a link to an article that I found extremely helpful. When reading about Existential Therapy in the textbook I found myself confused about existential philosopher Martin Buber's take on the I-Thou relationship. Specifically, I was unsure... -
Professor Jon Dron | Beyond Busy
By Jon Dron 13 July 2017 @ 2:13pmgetbeyondbusy.com - An interview with me by Graham Allcott, author of the bestselling How to be a productivity ninja and other books, for his podcast series Beyond Busy, and as part of the research for his next book. In it I ramble a lot about issues like social media,... -
Higher Education Whisperer: MIT For Credit edX Course Shows How to Market e-Learning
By Jon Dron 29 June 2017 @ 1:55am Comments (1)blog.highereducationwhisperer.com - Great critique by Tom Worthington of an alleged for-credit MOOC from MIT that was anything but a MOOC. As Tom rightly points out, two instructors, 31 students, and online materials from EdX do not a MOOC make. As he notes, this kind of instructional... -
Posts by Matthew Prineas - Athabasca University's new Provost and Vice-president, Academic
By Jon Dron 26 June 2017 @ 10:03amevolllution.com - I suspect everyone on Athabasca University's staff will be very interested in these posts by Matthew Prineas, who we will welcome on September 5th as our new provost and VPA, that show a great understanding of at least some of the benefits and... -
Change Alberta
By Alvin Finkel 21 June 2017 @ 12:47am Comments (1)www.facebook.com - This is a Facebook blog on Alberta politics (and other related subjects) for which I provide about 75 percent of all content. It has over 4200 followers and over 4500 likes as of June, 2017. -
Mindfulness in Therapy
By Marc Colbourne 31 May 2017 @ 7:42pmwww.mindfulnessstudies.com - As a Buddhist, I am constantly looking for resources that will help me add the practice of mindfulness to my work with clients. This organization, the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, has some great resources and courses that help with coping with... -
Computer science students should learn to cheat, not be punished for it
By Jon Dron 31 May 2017 @ 10:45am Comments (1)thenextweb.com - This is a well thought-through response to a recent alarmist NYT article about cheating among programming students. The original NYT article is full of holy pronouncements about the evils of plagiarism, horrified statistics about its extent, and... -
State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Spring 2017 Edition
By Jon Dron 16 May 2017 @ 11:44ammfeldstein.com - Hat-tip to Tim Terry (@tterry) for sharing this one from Phil Hill. tldr; - Blackboard and its acquisitions continue to shrink (great!), Canvas continues to grow (good), Moodle continues to thrive (very good), partly driven by Blackboard's hosted... -
Universities must do more to tackle use of smart drugs, say experts
By Jon Dron 10 May 2017 @ 4:07pm Comments (1)www.theguardian.com - Oh good grief. I wonder why students would be taking such risks? Oh, right... "Modup, a website selling Modafinil, told the Guardian that during exam time the volume of Modafinil shipped to the UK doubles." Funny that, in the whole article, there...
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Jon,
I found this really interesting as well, particularly given my recent forays into Self Determination Theory. I also just shared the article, and your comments with my students in a Learning Environments course I am teaching this semester.
Gerald Ardito September 18, 2017 - 9:12am