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Google to pull the plug on Google Code
Posted to group: Open Source SoftwareMillions of broken links as Google's proprietary project hosting system will be shut down.The 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....Interview with Kinshuk (part II) in AUSU's Voice Magazine
By Jon Dron 26 July 2015 @ 12:37pmwww.voicemagazine.org - The second part of AUSU's Voice Magazine's interview with Kinshuk (first part here) in which he talks about some of his rich ideas around smart learning, the interplay between digital technologies and pedagogies, fine-grained accreditation, and the...Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft - Dan Gillmor
By Viorel Tabara 27 February 2015 @ 1:30pmPosted to group: Open Source Softwaremedium.com - Hmm, there is no better article to kickstart this group activity (or maybe there is? ;). It's well known that OSX runs on BSD and it's got a lot of open source tools under the hood but with Microsoft open sourcing ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages...Super-private social network launched to take on Facebook with support of Anonymous
By Jon Dron 18 June 2015 @ 11:10am Comments (2)www.independent.co.uk - The first question that emerges for a free, encrypted, ad-free, unsurveilled, intentionally private, celebrating anonymity, social networking site and mobile app like this is 'How does it make enough money to support itself'? The answer appears to...Flow in eLearning
By Hongxin Yan 16 June 2015 @ 10:53am Comments (2)elearningindustry.com - This is an excellent blog. I agree, the best design is to design a state of flow of learning.Why you should do design based research (DBR)
By Terry Anderson January 20, 2015 - 7:03pmIn this post I’ll review and respond to two useful posts by Rebecca Hogue - Why you shouldn’t do Educational Design Research Part 1 and Part 2. First of all I think the title is quite misleading, in that my reading of it...Why so many questions?
By Jon Dron May 28, 2015 - 9:59pm Comments (6)At Athabasca University, our proposed multi-million dollar investment in a student relationship management system, perhaps ironically dubbed the 'student success centre' (SSC), is causing quite a stir among faculty and tutors at the moment. Though...My comments on "Inventing the University" by David Bartholomae
By Surjit Atwal June 10, 2015 - 4:48pm Comments (1)When I was preparing for the first assignment, I read the article “Inventing the University” by David Bartholomae. It got me thinking about my writing process during my time as an undergraduate student. Bartholomae says that students...
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