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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Feb 02, 2017


Knowledge Science: The Great Big Beautiful Puzzle
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This is a view of knowledge and learning that I think is
wrong (and would argue has been disproven in application)
but which is nonetheless believed - either implicitly or
explicitly - by many. The idea is that all knowledge can be
understood conceptually a nd semantically, and that it all
fits a giant puzzle explaining the universe, which can be
understood using "time-tested a priori knowledge."
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Transversal Competencies and their Assessment: Perspectives
from the Asia-Pacific
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'Transversal skills' is the term adopted by UNESCO to refer
to things like 21st century skills, critical thinking,
persitence, and related skills. This article observes that
they are being more widely valued world-wide. But the
question remains: how are they being evaluated? It is in
this context that UNESCO Bangkok published Assessment of
Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the
Asia-Pacific Region
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"in the aim of understanding more about these questions and
how some countries are trying to answer them."
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Coursera’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From
Netflix—and LinkedIn
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Coursera is continuing its migration from being a MOOC
provider offering free online learning to a
subscription-based learning provider charging fees for
access to learning materials. The model, as this article
points out, has already been established by Netflix (for
videos) and Microsoft (for its LinkedIn owned Lynda course
platform). According to this article the big problem with
the model is the size of the courses ("meaningful education
cannot be delivered at massive scale") but of course the
real problem for students is the course fee.
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