OLDaily Text Edition ~ Dec 28, 2016

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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Dec 28, 2016
Raise the Bar: YouTube, the World's Largest LMS
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Interesting thought. Certainly I turn to it any time I need
to learn something hands-on and practical. "The depth and
breadth of material on YouTube is astounding. In the
education sector on YouTube, people are teaching everything
from car repair to computer programming to personal
financial management."
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Open Society Needs Defending
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Argument from George Soros to the effect that, yes, the
open society needs defending. "Open societies are in
crisis," he writes, "and various forms of closed societies
– from fascist dictatorships to mafia states –
are on the rise." A bit sgtrong but we'll accept thes. He
then asks, "How could this happen? The only explanation I
can find is that elected leaders failed to meet
voters’ legitimate expectations and aspirations and
that this failure led electorates to become disenchanted
with the prevailing versions of democracy and capitalism."
Well, that much is true, but the prevailing institutions -
including the EU, which he seeks to defend in this article
- weren't showing any sign of actually meeting those
legitimate expectations. How many times has the European
Commission tried to sneak software patents into law, for
example?
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Accessibility of MOOCs: Understanding the Provider
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From the abstract: "we report the results from a study
involving semi-structured interviews to investigate the
perceptions and accessibility-related processes of MOOC
platform accessibility managers, platform software
developers and designers, and MOOC accessibility
researchers."
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Developing a Strategic Approach to MOOCs
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The authors write, "In this contribution we look at one
substantial body of work, publications on MOOCs that were
produced at the 29 UK universities connected to the
FutureLearn MOOC platform. Bringing these papers together,
and considering them as a body of related work, reveals a
set of nine priority areas for MOOC research and
development."
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