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Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
By Jon Dron 30 August 2012 @ 11:50am Comments (3)www.ted.com - This is a great TED talk from Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist (that I've started to read and am enjoying immensely), summarizing some of the main ideas in the book. There are many useful ideas and surprising facts and arguments...Finally an easy to use web based PowerPoint presentation converter that actually works.
By Steve Swettenham January 30, 2013 - 4:10pmPowerPoint to HTML 5 converterBeing-taught habits vs learning styles
By Jon Dron November 6, 2013 - 6:23pm Comments (4)In case the news has not got through to anyone yet, research into learning styles is pointless. The research that proves this is legion but, for instance, see (for just a tiny sample of the copious and damning evidence): Riener, C., &...Interview with Terry Anderson
By Jon Dron 21 March 2014 @ 8:15pm Comments (1)steve-wheeler.blogspot.ca - Steve Wheeler (a fine contributor to the world of online learning himself with a blog worth subscribing to and a very active Twitter presence with a Twitter handle that beats most) interviews our own Terry Anderson about distance learning and...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...Understanding the response to financial and non-financial incentives in education: Field...
By Jon Dron 6 November 2016 @ 12:15pm Comments (1)www.efm.bris.ac.uk - What they did This is a report by, Simon Burgess, Robert Metcalfe, and Sally Sadoff on a large scale study conducted in the UK on the effects of financial and non-financial incentives on GCSE scores (GCSEs are UK qualifications usually taken around...Bringing Antagonists to their Knees… Or At Least to the Cereal Box
By Bev Schellenberg April 23, 2019 - 6:00pm Comments (2)Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, and Darth Vader share something in common: thanks to pop culture, they've been reduced to bobbleheads, children’s playthings, and types of cereal.
Fetch-Decode-Execute Cycle: If you're a visual learner you'll want to watch this video
Last updated March 3, 2023 - 4:11pm by KevinThe Fetch-Execute Cycle: What's Your Computer Actually Doing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5JC9Ve1sfIe-portfolio
By Darren 9 August 2012 @ 12:28pmPosted to group: Athabasca University e-labportfolio.elab.athabascau.ca - Whether you are a student, graduate, potential student, staff member, or are affiliated with the University, ePortfolios in the e-lab offer a secure, easy and reliable way to reflect on and record your Academic achievements Professional...
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