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This article is completely focused on the United States, so it can't be said to make a statistical case for anything, but despite that, what Clay Shirky says here is right: "What the mega-university story gets right is that online education is transforming higher education. What it...

It has been so irrelevant for so long that I didn't even think of it, but in the wake of Apple's recent announcement that it is phasing out iTines, it follows that one of its side-projects, iTunes U, is also headed for the scrap heap. But it is where it has been headed for...

Good paper getting into the depths of concept maps. I like the dimensions semantic density and semantic gravity used to characterize different types of maps. "Tracing the changes in the semantic profiles that students exhibit provides a visualization of the progress that students are making against desired outcomes, offering a way of monitoring student progression and curriculum effectiveness."

This is a longish article about the recent successes of IMS Global (the learning standards organization). If I had to sum up the thesis in just one quote, it would be this: "Market pressures now favor interoperability. The same companies that were the most resistant to developing...

Having co-opted the term 'MOOC', the commercial platforms have essentially rendered the term meaningless. That's the main takeaway from this MOOC conference, at least as I read this summary. "Already, the term 'MOOC' seems a bit quaint," writes Laurie Pickard. "Most MOOCs are no...

The bit by Freeman Dyson to start this video transcript is brief but rich; the discussion that follows is interesting but not to the same level as the introduction. "Our brains are spectacularly quick," says Dyson, "transforming two tasks essential to our survival: recognition of images in...

This article summarizes elements of the OECD Learning Compass 2030 (which catches my eye partially because of its discussion of agency). David Ross highlights three ”transformative competencies” targeted for 2030:

• The ability to create new value;
• The ability to reconcile tensions and dilemmas; and...

Quick slide deck overviewing the latest developments in MoodleNet. They're at an interesting juncture right now - setting up communication between instances of MoodleNet (which will work as a federated social network, with no central hub) using protocols like ActivityPub (which is used...