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Seb Schmoller
Sheffield, UK. FE College Governor. Long term interest in online learning & Open Access. Left ALT in May 2012. @sebschmoller & http://fm.schmoller.net/.
Charming (from 2007): "PR's 'pit-bull'" Eric Dezenhall engaged by the Assoc of American Pubs to "take on #OA". - http://cwis.usc.edu/hsc...
Nice piece by @profkeithdevlin about his @coursera Intro to Mathematical Thinking. (KD: get a @BromptonBicycle....) - http://mooctalk.org/2013...
"Urgent action needed to safeguard the unique opportunities offered by studying part-time" says LSE politics/policy blog. - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politic...
John "Ways of Seeing" Berger, then aged 85, interviewed on BBC Newsnight by Gavin Esler on 27 May 2011. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"Taking a vacation? Take an email sabbatical!" I've been doing this for 2 years. Highly recommended. HT @zephoria - http://www.zephoria.org/thought...
Gold #OpenAccess Infrastructure - an initiative with an interesting list of participants: http://goo.gl/CjeRV - http://www.goldoa.org.uk/topic-a...
Putting it online. "Make it accessible, appropriate, applicable for learner and subject" By @brenLearning #octel. - http://brendanstrong.wordpress.com/2013...
Koller, Ng, Do & Chen's @coursera based "Retention and Intention in #MOOCs" has nice density maps. - http://www.educause.edu/ero...
Good piece by @OldDitch Mick Fletcher "English & Maths - The Challenge in Numbers", but backlog problem untouched. - http://www.rcu.co.uk/blog...
Interesting> "Using social media to influence policy – a personal case study" by ex Whitehall insider @Puffles2010. - http://adragonsbestfriend.wordpress.com/2013...
Machine grading of essays. Annotated bibliography. P1: http://academeblog.org/2013...; P2: http://academeblog.org/2013... by Martin Kich/AAUP
Innovation or Replication? Nice quirky piece by @massonpj about EdX (@edxonline) & its echoes of Sakai. - http://pmasson.wordpress.com/2013...
Andrew Rosindell MP – King of the All-Party Group (member of 90, chairs 17, officer of 28) @alittleecon goes digging - http://alittleecon.wordpress.com/2013...
Worth reading> The Quantified Self by @profserious highlights one of those "big sea changes" that's becoming obvious. - http://blog.prof.so/2013...
"The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’". Julian Assange's NY Times review of Cohen and Schmidt's "New Digital Age". - http://www.nytimes.com/2013...
The Story of Daniel, a 17 Year Old with Severe Autism & His 6 Completed @Coursera Courses. (Coursera blog) - http://blog.coursera.org/post...
Which MPs feature as members of "holiday destination" All-Party Parliamentary Groups? @alittleecon does some digging. - http://alittleecon.wordpress.com/2013...
Refreshing. MS Researcher @KateCrawford's "Six myths of big data". Via @zephoria - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013...
Excellent - xkcd's Tech Support Cheat Sheet. A wide range of people would benefit from having this to hand. - http://xkcd.com/627/
"The Scientifically Substantiated Art of Teaching: Mind, Brain, & Education science" - free event on 4 July at UCL. - http://mindbraineduscience.eventbrite.co.uk/
Reading on screen - classy and thoughtful resources from the University of York - http://fm.schmoller.net/2013...
So rather than wasting .. £5bn on the Work Programme .. why not just create some jobs? asks @alittleecon Alex Little. - http://alittleecon.wordpress.com/2013...
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- Seb Schmoller
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VCs University Ventures point (sour grapes?) to bad judgements by @udacity & Georgia Tech w.r.t. CS Masters. - http://www.universityventuresfund.com/publica...
"Online learning opportunities are finally catching up with the hype." - thus HungryMinds.Com in 1999. - http://web.archive.org/web...
This exemplary notification from Drupal.Org of a security breach inspires confidence and trust. - https://drupal.org/news...
This New Yorker piece by @nathanheller about #MOOCs gets in a great deal deeper than a lot of other current coverage. - http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
John Berger's 1972 series "Ways of Seeing" via @davebriggs repays careful watching. All (?) 4 episodes available. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Interesting but not 100% convincing critique by AAUP's Aaron Barlow of "teaching as script" e.g. as in http://goo.gl/3bWUq - http://academeblog.org/2013...
@KeithTuffley's "Grand Tours Project". 63 days biking, 10,253 km distance, 150 km of vertical ascent. Astonishing. - http://grandtoursproject.com/why
Terrific filleting by @donaldclark of Edinburgh U's self review of its first six @coursera MOOCs. - http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/2013...
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