The White House has just released a report on “Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values” (85 pages, PDF) along with a collection of supporting documents. The report is the culmination of a 90-day review by the Administration, spearheaded by Counselor … Read more
An interesting article on automated essay grading and the potential and limitations of parsing programs: http://chronicle.com/article/Writing-Instructor-Skeptical/146211/
See more at: http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/02/18/my-vision-for-an-open-textbook/ and here: http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/03/03/getting-started-in-writing-an-open-textbook/ What Tony Bates describes sounds like an exciting project and an English counterpart to the open textbook initiative L3T in the German speaking areas. This collaborative textbook on learning and teaching with technology is … Read more
ADD E-Learn: AACE E-Learn Special Interest Group on Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning – Member Survey Results and Plans for 2014 from Stefanie Panke Making the complex clear, turning difficult into intriguing, raising intellectual curiosity, supporting creative problem solving, posing … Read more
“Over the past decade, social media has evolved from being an esoteric jumble of technologies to a set of sites and services that are at the heart of contemporary culture.” In her new book ‘It’s complicated‘ danah boyd, a researcher … Read more
Source: Pew Internet Research Center (2014). E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps. (PDF, online). Quick Facts at a glance: Rising level of familiarity with e-books: The percentage of US-American adults who read an e-book in the past year has risen … Read more
January 5-8, 2014 Hawaii International Conference on Education, 12th, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.hiceducation.org/ January 16-17, 2014 International Conference on Open and Flexible Education: Making Learning Open and Flexible, 1st, organized by the Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. … Read more
I just came across an interesting article from the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, a great resource for people interested in digital literacy, information design and the social practices surrounding these fields. Rude, C. D. (2009). Mapping the research … Read more
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) has launched a Special Interest Group on Assessing, Designing and Developing E-Learning (ADD). You do not have to be an AACE member or an attendee of previous E-Learn conferences to … Read more