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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Nov 24, 2016
EduOpen: a new MOOC Provider Funded by the Italian
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In the year after MOOCs were declared by experts to be a
failure, the number of new MOOC providers continues to
increase. "EduOpen is a network of Italian Universities,
but it is also open to EU universities. At the moment it
involves seventeen universities, which include a mixture of
larger and smaller institutions from both northern and
southern Italy. The full list of members can be found
on en.eduopen.org. http://en.eduopen.org/" It's worth
noting that the development partner is LMS of India
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'Post-Truth' Is Just A Rip-Off Of 'Truthiness'
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It has to be said. And who better to say it than Stephen
Colbert.
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Smart Reply: Automated response suggestion for email
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You need to think of this paper as the first tentative
explorations of a complex topic. Could your email answer
itself for you? In a sense, a spam filter is the first
attempt at such, where the response is 'no response, delete
and block'. But what about actually sending a response, for
example, a response to a meeting invitation? In theory, it
sounds simple - identify the time of the meeting, check
your availability for tomorrow, then respond appropriately
and book. But how to respond? You want to match the tone of
the invitation. Otherwise it looks like a machine
responded. And if the request was to attend a meeting
"tomorrow", w hat day is that exactly?
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The Forms and Functions of Teaching and Learning
Innovations on Blackboard: Substantial or Superficial?
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So here's a challenge: "In view of the institution’s
objective of developing a context-driven, transformative,
and innovative teaching and learning practices involving
the integration of technology, the study sought to classify
and evaluate the form and function of teaching and learning
innovations on Blackboard." Blackboard may claim to support
these things but my first thought has to be something like
"no way". But intuition needs to be supported by fact. The
study's conclusions? "Blackboard innovations tended to be
more superficial at the levels of substitution and
augmentation." This isn't all the fault of the software,
however. "The findings suggest convenience, management, and
efficiency as the drivers of lecturers’ motivations
to use Blackboard."
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10 Things That Happen When Students Engage in Design
Thinking
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Scroll down past the full-page advertisement, skim though
the 'ten things' and linger on the image before you get to
the meat of the article. "Design thinking prepares students
for a creative life — whether that is in business, in
the social or civic spaces, in the arts, or in engineering.
But it does this by allowing them create things that matter
to them right now. It’s not some far off 'grown up'
thing." I agree. Via George Couros
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