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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Nov 15, 2016
Open Learning in the Future
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Nov 15, 2016
My contribution to the FutureOER discussion
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learning will be less and less focused on resources, which
will be available to everyone, and much more focused on
activities. Tuition will pay for materials, environmental
support and equipment, and professional assistance, often
on an as-needed basis.
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Oxford University to launch first online 'Mooc' course
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This of course is happening more than eight years after the
launch of the first MOOC. One wonders why it's the cause
for a news story.
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On metadata
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Daniel Lemire is exactly right in this article, and we
forget it at our peril: "Most metadata is unreliable.
Maintaining high-quality data is simply hard work. And even
when people have good intentions, it takes more mental
acuity than you might think." And the system is not set up
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"One of the problems with metadata in the real world is
that you are in an adversarial setting.... you still have
to worry that they are going to lie to you."
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Aaron Perzanowski: The End of Ownership
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Summary of a talk on the new state of 'ownership' in the
digital age. "What rights do people think they have when
they ‘buy now.' Aaron and Jason did an experiment
that showed that if people bought through a 'buy now'
button, they thought they have the right to keep, device,
lend, and give their copy. People make this mistake because
they port over their real-world understanding of buying."
In 20 years, will we be free to use our education as we
wish, or will our knowledge of, say, calculus only be
licensed for particular uses?
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YouTube has (apparently) reinstated RSS feeds
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Brian Schrader writes, and I echo every word: "Well if
there's something I wasn't expecting to find tonight, it
was that apparently YouTube has decided to allow users to
follow channels via RSS again
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and unlike the last few years, this time it actually looks
to be officially supported! I have no idea when this
feature was added, but it's the first time I've seen it.
Most articles about YouTube's RSS feeds are either hacks or
from ancient history
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I don't know what mad(wo)man is behind this, but I love
them."
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Auckland Startup Launches Revolutionary eLearning Platform
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I think the Modlettes Linkproduct
looks really interesting but it's quite expensive to get
started (for me, at least) and the two-week trial doesn't
really give me the capacity to try it out
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idea is that "any member of a user organisation can be
given permission to create and upload Modlettes to their
organisation’s channel, all with just a few touches
on their smartphone." The authoring tool permits you to
upload content, but ideally it would allow you to make the
content on the fly - don't just 'upload' video, record
video. For what they deliver, it's way overpriced, but the
concept is good.
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Colossal
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Via Quartz I came across this excellent website devoted to
what is best described as folk art. But what art! Articles
include a Japanese exhibit of rocks
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that look like faces, layered yarn portraits
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of South Africans, a fiery-throated hummingbird
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urban geodes
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on the streets of L.A., Japanese candy
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sculptures, toilet paper rolls squished into funny faces
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a 2017 letterpress lunar calendar
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a metropolis of more than 600 paper sculptures
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and much more. Things like this inspire people, and they
should be seen.
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You’ll Know the Drones Are Coming When…
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So, if a delivery bot using the sidewalk crosses the street
at a crosswalk, does the driver have to give way and stop?
This is the very relevant question asked by Tony Hirst as
new technologies are forcing us to thing of devices as
ethical objects. Do their rights sometimes trump ours - for
example, if I am demonstrating in front of a political
office and impede a sidewalk-using drone, have I committed
an infraction? I've seen a few things recently depicting
the AI phenomenon not as an intelligence question but as a
test of ethics - for example, this article
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from O'Reilly, and episode 334 of Spark
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CBC. Does an AI have an obligation to the truth
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or is it waived from the limits that would constrain
humans?
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