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Stephen Downes works with the Digital Technologies Research Centre at the
National Research Council of Canada specializing in new instructional media and
personal learning technology. His degrees are in Philosophy, specializing in
epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. He has taught for
the University of Alberta, Athabasca University, Grand Prairie Regional College
and Assiniboine Community College. His background includes expertise in
journalism and media, both as a prominent blogger and as founder of the Moncton
Free Press online news cooperative.  He is one of the originators of the first
Massive Open Online Course, has published frequently about online and networked
learning, has authored learning management and content syndication software, and
is the author of the widely read e-learning newsletter OLDaily. Through a
thirty-five year career Downes has contributed pioneering work in the fields of
online learning games, learning objects and metadata, podcasting, and open
educational resources. Recent projects include:gRSShopper, a personal learning
environment; E-Learning 3.0, a course on new e-learning technologies; research
and development in the use of distributed ledger technology in learning
applications; and research on ethics, analytics and the duty of care. Downes is
a member of NRC's Research Ethics Board. He is a popular keynote speaker and has
spoken in three dozen countries on six continents.

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SOCIAL CONTRACT VS. INVISIBLE HAND: AGREEING TO SOLVE SOCIAL DILEMMAS



"The purpose of this essay is to take a closer look at the relation between the
invisible
hand paradigm that is at the heart of economists’ theoretical outlook at markets
and the social
contract paradigm" to “provide us with the ‘bridge’ between the
individual-choice calculus and group decisions.”

Today: Total: Viktor J. Vanberg, Freiburger Diskussionspapiere zur
Ordnungsökonomik, 2021/11/17 [Direct Link]


THERE'S A NEW EFFORT TO MAP UNIVERSITY DEGREES TO WORKPLACE SKILLS





The National Student Clearinghouse is working with an AI company called AstrumU
to map degrees and credentials to in-demand skills. The problem being addressed
here is that "employers can’t easily find matches for their open positions who
earned relevant experience outside of a traditional degree." The company is
working on a "marketplace for recruiting and talent development based on
quantifiable skills" and "identifying learning recommendations to fill skills
gaps that allow an individual with a high probability of success to map to
in-demand roles." Having a pipeline like this allows people to address the
learning they need to find employment, and if this can be done efficiently, may
allow them to develop a more broad-based learning strategy, if they wish.

Today: 58 Total: 58 Emily Bamforth, EdScoop, 2021/11/16 [Direct Link]


KNOWLEDGE IN MOTION: HOW TO SPOT THE FUTURE IN THE HERE AND NOW





We see the future the way we see the past: not directly, but by reading the
signs. That, essentially, is the premise of this article, and it offers
generally good advice about how to go about it. This isn't the sort of futurism
based on building scenarios, it's one based looking closely at the present to
spot emerging patterns. "Conventional wisdom suggests that when large
organisational change efforts fail, the problem is people’s resistance to
change. Complexity science shows that it can be the complete opposite. Human
beings are incredibly creative and adaptable."

Today: 84 Total: 84 Sharon Varney, De Gruyter, 2021/11/16 [Direct Link]


A PROPOSED ARCHITECTURE OF AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING THE STUDENT’S UML
CLASS DIAGRAM





A Unified Modeling Language (UML) document is a set of standardized visual
formats for representing objects and structure in software design. This paper (9
page PDF) offers a fairly detailed look at what would be involved to have an
automated system parse and evaluate UML documents. It spends most of the time
discussing the first part, describing various approaches as Simple API for XML
(SAX) and Document Object Model (DOM). Of course, the hard part is the second
part, where you actually compare UML models for assessment purposes. That said,
I don't see anything in principle that would make this impossible, and it
suggests to me that evaluating structured documents is a useful approach to
AI-based assessments, especially if combined with good tools for creating them,
like app.diagrams.net. Image: Stack Overflow.

Today: 66 Total: 66 Rhaydae Jebli, Jaber El Bouhdidi, Mohamed Yassin Chkouri,
2021/11/16 [Direct Link]


BONFIRE





According to the web page, Bonfire is "working towards a future where
communities can assemble their own social networks like lego blocks, to
cultivate safe and private spaces while being interconnected with the rest of
the 'fediverse' and the internet at wide on their own terms." To do this it
implements ActivityPub along with a variety of other tools. Documentation is
minimal to non-existent, and so Bonfire is still some distance away from
widespread adoption. But I laud the ambition; it's an instantiation of the
concept of 'community as consensus'. And the resources available - which can be
loaded and tested in Docker - represent a significant commitment.

Today: 30 Total: 178 Bonfire, 2021/11/15 [Direct Link]


INNOVATION IN L&D AND HR





This two part post (part one, part two) reports on Donald Taylor's People And
Technology Innovation survey (PATI). It asked one core question of the 541
respondents : "Which HR/L&D issues are you looking to solve with innovative
technologies?" As Taylor notes, respondents were self-selecting and  so the
survey does not represent the overall population of L&D and HR professionals.
Still, it's an interesting snapshot in which we see personalized learning and
professional development among the top responses, with collaborative learning
being much stronger in Europe than elsewhere.

Today: 29 Total: 171 Donald H. Taylor, 2021/11/15 [Direct Link]

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