OLDaily Text Edition ~ Mar 30, 2017

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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Mar 30, 2017
How I Let Disney Track My Every Move
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The MagicBand is a bracelet Disney hands out to hotel and
resort guests. It gives you access to rides, automatically
takes photos, and helps them run the park. It may seem
creepy, but it’s very convenient. The bracelets,
along with the rest of the technologies in this list,
communicate with other services using short-range
communication called RFID as well as long range wireless
internet
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‘Who shared it?’: How Americans decide what news to
trust on social media
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According to this report (13 page PDF
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"when Americans encounter news on social media, how much
they trust the content is determined less by who creates
the news than by who shares it." How much they engage with
it (for example, by passing it along) also depends more on
who shares it. This runs counter to those saying it is the
authority of the source that matters. This means that "Your
readers and followers are not just consumers to monetize,
instead they may be social ambassadors whose own
credibility with their friends affects your brand’s
reputation." True enough. When I read this, I ask, why do
people place trust in individuals who share the news - is
it that they can be relied on to have a point of view? or
perhaps they are trusted to assess the news critically? or
maybe they just have good sources themselves?
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Faculty Perceptions about Teaching Online: Exploring the
Literature Using the Technology Acceptance Model as an
Organizing Framework
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This is a  good article that does exactly what the
title promises. It is a survey article looking at a number
of research studies on faculty use of technology from the
perspective of the technology acceptance model (TAM). After
a brief overview of the model, the paper summarizes the
major findings (including an exceptionally useful table
starting on page 19. Having said that, the report
underlines common findings about faculty use of technology:
they are more likely to use it if they feel confident in
technology and report poorer experiences if they are less
familiar with it. They are less enthusiastic about
technology than their administrators, express concerns
about quality, and were concerned about effectiveness,
interactivity, and workload.
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New Study Recommends Key Actions to Improve Early Childhood
Education in Mongolia
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There's a lot of interesting reading in this World Bank
study on early childhood education (ECE) in Mongolia (113
page PDF
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The summary article doesn't do it justice. Mongolia has
made great strides in recent years, but gaps remain,
especially among poorer and more rural populations. In
rural communities, access is provided through a
ger-kindergarten (using a traditional yurt (from the Turkic
languages) or ger (Mongolian)). Because of issues with
access, spending in education thus far tends to favour the
welathy more than the poor.  Not mentioned in the
summary is that the report calls for greater private sector
involvement in several areas, which seems to me to be the
World Bank repeating its past mistakes.
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Installing Mautic with PHP7-FPM on Docker, Nginx, and
MariaDB on Ubuntu 16.04
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This is pretty interesting. Ignore the tech, unless you
enjoy that, and focus on what it does. "Mautic
Linkis an open source marketing automation
web application. Here at the OER Foundation, we use it to
manage enquiries from prospective learners and partner
institutions, to deliver timely emails to cohorts of
learners undertaking our partner's online courses, and to
measure our effectiveness in achieving our goals
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education accessible to everyone." I should get one of
these.
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