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Chris Swift

Debate on MOOC's - 0 views

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  • Chris Swift on 08 Aug 13
     
    1. Does not passing a rigorous exam matter in a MOOC, in terms of getting a job afterwards? Do MOOC's lack credibility in the eyes of employers, or is that just an old fashioned way of thinking? 2. If MOOC's work, and they are free to do, how are they going to be financially sustainable in the long term? 3. "Moocs are an excellent way to give everyone access to academic thought, rather than having them stuck with whatever their own institution chooses to provide, and as a way for academics to keep up to date themselves" What do you think?
Céline Keller

What does digital mean? - 0 views

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  • digital Traditionally, digital means the use of numbers and the term comes from digit, or finger. Today, digital is synonymous with computer.  Digital Means Original The 0s and 1s of digital data mean more than than just on and off. They mean perfect copying. When information, music, voice and video are turned into binary digital form, they can be electronically manipulated, preserved and regenerated perfectly at high speed. The millionth copy of a computer file is exactly the same as the original. While this continually drives the software industry crazy protecting its copyrights, it is nevertheless a major advantage of digital processing.  (http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/)
  • Céline Keller on 07 Feb 13
     
    digital "Traditionally, digital means the use of numbers and the term comes from digit, or finger. Today, digital is synonymous with computer.  Digital Means Original The 0s and 1s of digital data mean more than than just on and off. They mean perfect copying. When information, music, voice and video are turned into binary digital form, they can be electronically manipulated, preserved and regenerated perfectly at high  speed. The millionth copy of a computer file is exactly the same as the original. While this continually drives the software industry crazy protecting its copyrights, it is nevertheless a major advantage of digital processing. "
Vanessa Vaile

Steve Fuller - Who Will Recognise Humanity 2.0 - And Will It Recognise Us? - 0 views

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  • : What is the story that leads up to humanity 2.0 and is it co-extensive with the history of science? ‘
  • transhumanism: a term that he’s careful to distinguish from posthumanism. Posthumanism, he explains, takes a Darwinian standpoint on life; it’s a ‘species egalitarian view’ in which there is a definite respect for life, but no respect for the qualities of human beings that distinguish us from other life-forms. ‘There is no humanity 2.0 in this picture, there’s just post-humanity,’
  • Darwin was very reluctant to support movements in the late 19th-century that we would now associate with transhumanist thinking, such as eugenics and vivisection
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  • process in human evolution, and that we could potentially take control of it, emerged in the 1930s with figures like Sir Julian Huxley.
  • one organism that can understand the whole thing - and then take control of it. That was the promise of transhumanism
  • The next phase of transhumanism is the converging technologies agenda: ‘The particular technologies we’re talking about are based on nanotechnology, biotechnology, information science and the cognitive sciences.
  • r for the purpose of enhancing human beings,
  • push-back in the idea that humans can raise themselves to this higher level and governments have always been worried about these advance forms of technology and knowledge actually getting into the hands of people who can use them for their own purpose
  • no overarching, normative sense of humanity
  • Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Originally trained in history and philosophy of science, he is best known for his work in the field of ‘social epistemology’, which is concerned with the normative foundations of organized inquiry.
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