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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Feb 06, 2017


Against mass consumption of ‘already certified’
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Doug Belshaw bemoans the unsurprising co-option of digital
badges by established institutions. "Even though the tools
to do something radically different are available, people
seem content to do as they’re told, going cap in hand
to the existing powers that be." Sure, there were
alternative credentials, but these were swept away by the
mainstream. "If we have a landscape full of
‘alternative credentials’ provided by the
incumbents," writes Belshaw, "then, I’m sad to say,
this may all have been for naught." I don't think you can
disrupt certificate-granting institutions with more
certificates. I think you need an approach that makes
certification superfluous.
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What the Acquisition of Meta Means for Scholarly Publishers
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Meta https://meta.com/ is a tool that analyzes
scientific publications. For example, in one study
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it predicted the number of citations a published article
would receive. Now it has been acquired by Chan Zuckerberg.
This, writes a Meta board member, is a good thing. "The
acquisition
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/23/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-meta/"
target="_blank of Meta by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
(CZI) promises to transform scientific investigation. As a
byproduct of this, it will likely transform scientific
publishing as well." There's no doubt that scientific
publication is changing; 'research' these days consists of
running (more or less) intelligent searches against
databases of hundreds of thousands of articles. People
don't look at the content of the articles any more; they
analyze global trends. That's what Facebook tries to do
already with social media. And that's why they acquired
Meta.
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What Research Says About Transferring Explicit Knowledge:
To Share or Not to Share
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As always, convenience is the major usability factor when
introducing new technology. "Acceptance of technology for
knowledge sharing is directly related to how employees view
the usefulness of the technology in supporting their job
performance, without extra effort. Those last three words
are key." Meanwhile, they are more likely to use the
knowledge management system if it is useful: they need to
be able to access content where they are, and they need
efficient search (that doesn't take a training program to
understand).
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