But at the same time that the world has become flatter, it has also become “spikier”: the places that are globally competitive are those that have robust local ecosystems of resources supporting innovation and productiveness.2
"The Future of Privacy: How Privacy Norms Can Inform Regulation" - 6 views
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In online public spaces, interactions are public-by-default, private-through-effort, the exact opposite of what we experience offline. There is no equivalent to the cafe where you can have a private conversation in public with a close friend without thinking about who might overhear. Your online conversations are easily overheard. And they're often persistent, searchable, and easily spreadable. Online, we have to put effort into limiting how far information flows. We have to consciously act to curb visibility. This runs counter to every experience we've ever had in unmediated environments. When people participate online, they don't choose what to publicize. They choose what to limit others from seeing. Offline, it takes effort to get something to be seen. Online, it takes effort for things to NOT be seen. This is why it appears that more is public. Because there's a lot of content out there that people don't care enough about to lock down. I hear this from teens all the time. "Public by default, privacy when necessary." Teens turn to private messages or texting or other forms of communication for intimate interactions, but they don't care enough about certain information to put the effort into locking it down. But this isn't because they don't care about privacy. This is because they don't think that what they're saying really matters all that much to anyone. Just like you don't care that your small talk during the conference breaks are overheard by anyone. Of course, teens aren't aware of how their interactions in aggregate can be used to make serious assumptions about who they are, who they know, and what they might like in terms of advertising. Just like you don't calculate who to talk to in the halls based on how a surveillance algorithm might interpret your social network.
Skills Assessment: A Basic Requirement for Temporary and Permanent Residency Australia - 0 views
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Skills Assessment is a mandatory requirement for migration to Australia under certain visa streams. This document demonstrates the equivalency of an immigration aspirant's skills and qualifications in comparison to Australian standards. It can only be issued by a relevant assessing authority, which evaluates if the candidate's skills meet the standards for working in the relevant occupation in Australia. Thus, skills assessment is an important indicator of an applicant's eligibility for gaining temporary or permanent residency Australia as a skilled worker in the nominated occupation.
Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUC... - 2 views
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various initiatives launched over the past few years have created a series of building blocks that could provide the means for transforming the ways in which we provide education and support learning. Much of this activity has been enabled and inspired by the growth and evolution of the Internet, which has created a global “platform” that has vastly expanded access to all sorts of resources, including formal and informal educational materials. The Internet has also fostered a new culture of sharing, one in which content is freely contributed and distributed with few restrictions or costs.
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the most visible impact of the Internet on education to date has been the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, which has provided free access to a wide range of courses and other educational materials to anyone who wants to use them. The movement began in 2001 when the William and Flora Hewlett and the Andrew W. Mellon foundations jointly funded MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative, which today provides open access to undergraduate- and graduate-level materials and modules from more than 1,700 courses (covering virtually all of MIT’s curriculum). MIT’s initiative has inspired hundreds of other colleges and universities in the United States and abroad to join the movement and contribute their own open educational resources.4 The Internet has also been used to provide students with direct access to high-quality (and therefore scarce and expensive) tools like telescopes, scanning electron microscopes, and supercomputer simulation models, allowing students to engage personally in research.
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