Online Learning Journal (Formerly JALN)

"The growing role of the digital economy in daily life has heightened demand for new data and measurement tools. Internationally comparable and timely statistics combined with robust cross-country analyses are crucial to strengthen the evidence base for digital economy policy making, particularly in a context of rapid change. This report presents indicators traditionally used to monitor the information society and complements them with experimental indicators that provide insight into areas of policy interest. The key objectives of this publication are to highlight measurement gaps and propose actions to advance the measurement agenda."

"Michael Brown's death was part of a tragic and unacceptable pattern: Police officers in the United States shoot and kill civilians in shockingly high numbers. How many killings are there each year? No one can say for sure, because police departments don't want us to know."

"How Often are Unarmed Black Men Shot Down By Police? byFrank Vyan WaltonFollow 82 Comments / 82 New We stand today, two weeks after the shooting Death of Unarmed John Crawford, a week and a half after the Police Shooting Death of Unarmed Michael Brown, about a week after the shooting of Death of Ezell Ford in Los Angeles, in the wake of the Choke-Hold Death of Eric Garner in New York, years after the shooting death of unarmed Sean Bell and Amadour Diallo also in New York, years now after the Shooting Death of Unarmed and Hand-cuffed, Face Down Oscar Grant in Oakland, years after the shooting death of unarmed Kendrec McDade in Pasadena, a decade after the asphyxiation of unarmed Johnny Gammage in Pittsburgh, more decades after the choke-hold police Murder cover-up of Ron Settles in Signal Hill, the Police shooting of Eula Love over a $22 water bill payment in 1979, and of so many others."

"21 Numbers That Will Help You Understand Why Ferguson Is About More Than Michael Brown Posted: 08/22/2014 11:33 am EDT Updated: 08/25/2014 8:59 am EDT Share 3566 Tweet 833 0 Email 150 Comment 498 The shooting death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown has sparked nationwide protest and outrage as the country continues to grapple with its history of racial discrimination and police brutality, especially against African-Americans. Brown's name is one of the latest additions to a long list of black males killed by officers and vigilantes in a narrative that is becoming all too familiar to many people of color."

"UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) The UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) is a comprehensive set of professional standards and guidelines for HE providers and leaders.  A nationally-recognised framework for benchmarking success within HE teaching and learning support, it can be applied to personal development programmes at individual or institutional level to improve quality and recognise excellence. The UKPSF clearly outlines the Dimensions of Professional Practice within HE teaching and learning support as: areas of activity undertaken by teachers and support staff core knowledge needed to carry out those activities at the appropriate level professional values that individuals performing these activities should exemplify"

"For the last couple of decades, exercises to assess the extent to which university research is excellent have been all the rage. The UK led the way with the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) to be followed by Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong among others. With the passage of time, increasing amounts of research funding tend to be allocated on the basis of the results of these exercises and, so important have they become to individual universities, these exercises now drive the research cycle in the same way as national or general elections drive the economic cycles of individual states."

"The 10 states with the worst quality of life"

"The proportion of Americans with a college degree has increased steadily each year for more than a decade. According to the latest U.S. Census data, 29.6% of Americans at least 25 years old had at least a bachelor's degree last year, up from 27.9% in 2009. Based on recently released educational attainment data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, West Virginia had the lowest level of educational attainment, with 18.9% of adults 25 and older having attained at least a bachelor's degree in 2013. Conversely, more than 40% of Massachusetts residents had at least a bachelor's degree, the highest percentage nationwide."

"The Least Educated States in America"

""We got rid of tuition fees because we do not want higher education which depends on the wealth of the parents," Gabrielle Heinen-Kjajic, the minister for science and culture in Lower Saxony, said in a statement. "

"Why a leading professor of new media just banned technology use in class"

"Today's Student Journey Posted: Tuesday, Aug 19, 2014 Author:  Sean Bryan and Christine Boyd Posted Under:  Client Services Digital Marketing Digital Media SEO/Social Media"

"The University of California at Davis is creating what may be higher education's most promising digital badge system. But the badges are no threat to the university's degrees. They're add-ons - perhaps valuable ones for students."

"15 Ways to Reinvent College Infographic"

"Transforming the knowledge and skills of society through fostering digital literacies The Australian Digital Futures Institute explores and influences digital literacies through innovation, research and collaboration for positive social change."

"The California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative will hold its first statewide informational town hall events at the Campus Technology Forum 2014. Held on April 9 of the April 8-9 CT Forum event, the town halls were created to inform community college administration and technology leadership about this important initiative."

"Informal/Social learning is one of the major revolutions happening around us that demands a shift in the mere thinking of 'learning'. It requires us to unlearn and relearn some of the traditional notions related to the learning style/preference, and the dimensions and the elements of learning design. In this article, we'll take a quick look at the top 9 essential competencies that a learning designer is required to possess for designing effective informal/social learning interventions for today's workplaces."