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Juniper Networks backdoor confirmed, password revealed, NSA suspected
By Jon Dron 21 December 2015 @ 11:30am Comments (3)boingboing.net - Yet another reason to be deeply concerned for privacy. The NSA or some other agency has embedded a backdoor into the firewalls that 'protect' a great many organizations, allowing them (and now the whole world) to decrypt supposedly private...- By The Landing July 21, 2015 - 12:11pmBig new Landing (beta) feature today: group webinars! See http:/
/ bit.ly/ 1Ov3ORY for more info. The Myth of 'Learning Styles'
By Jon Dron 18 May 2019 @ 12:47pmgetpocket.com - A straightforward journalistic article from the Atlantic that does a decent job of explaining how and why learning styles theories simply don't work, with a particular focus on VARK. The takeaways are that, yes, people do often prefer to learn in...Communities we live in and serve: universities and places
By Jon Dron October 6, 2022 - 10:55pmVoluntourism, geoarbitrage, and digital nomadsReasons to be Cheerful is among my first ports of call for news most mornings because I hate to start the day on a negative or banal note. The news is mostly good, but it's never trivial, cute, or...
Virtual Tool Cupboard
By Darren 9 August 2012 @ 12:30pmPosted to group: Athabasca University e-labtools.elab.athabascau.ca - The Virtual Tool Cupboard features on-line tools and resources that support the critical, analytical, and representational skills required of quality university-level work. The tools included within the cupboard are largely web-based and...Donald Clark Plan B: Mayer & Clark – 10 brilliant design rules for e-learning
By Jon Dron 7 February 2013 @ 3:38pm Comments (2)donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.ca - Donald Clark remains one of my favourite bloggers on e-learning. In this post he discusses Mayer & Clark's research-based principles for designing instructional content. Required reading for anyone who ever needs to tell anyone anything using...Design Like You Give a Damn!
By Carrie Anton 4 February 2015 @ 11:04amPosted to group: Accessibility at AUvimeo.com - net magazine Best Conference Talk in 2014! is called “Design Like You Give a Damn!” http://vimeo.com/110965713The death of the exam: Canada is at the leading edge of killing the dreaded annual ‘final’ for good...
By Jon Dron 3 July 2015 @ 12:41pm Comments (5)news.nationalpost.com - Good news! There's not much to disagree with in this article, that reports on some successful efforts to erode the monstrously ugly blight of exams in Canada and beyond, and some of the more obvious reasoning behind the initiatives to kill them....6 Linux Distros Designed for Artists, Musicians and Editors
By Viorel Tabara 2 July 2016 @ 3:53pmPosted to group: Open Source Softwarewww.makeuseof.com - This put a smile on my face: "If I had a dollar for every person who told me they’re switching to Linux because it’s free, I could buy a few copies of Windows 10."
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