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Macleod, B. H., Haywood, J., & Woodgate, A. (2015). Emerging patterns in MOOCs: Learners, course designs and directions. TechTrends, 59(1), 56-63. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.library.esc.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&sid=452639d7-274a-43d4-9d76-6f20356bc6e1%40sessionmgr115&hid=111 Abstract "Engagement with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at the University of Edinburgh has emerged from its strategic priorities to explore and innovate in the area of online and technologically supported approaches to teaching and learning. This paper provides an account of analysis aimed at understanding who Edinburgh MOOC learners are, who elects to participate and the aspirations of that population, and the place that the MOOC will occupy in the University's online learning ecology. The analysis addresses a number of predictions that have been made about MOOCs since 2012, including their use for providing educational opportunities to the disadvantaged; global uptake of online learning; growth of an 'educational imperialism'; and the claim that 'MOOCs are for male geeks', and concludes with some observations about the University of Edinburgh's future plans in this space." (p.56) This is a peer reviewed academic article from TechTrends by University of Edinburgh. It analyzes the university's experience with MOOC learners after delivering 6 MOOCs on the Coursera platform, twice each. It presents analysis from 150K questionnaire respondents reflecting 600,000 enrolled learners. Some comparisons are made between the Coursera learners with newer platforms namely FutureLearn (UK) and Rwaq, a Saudi Arabian platform in Arabic. The sample of 20% of MOOC learners is considered representative of Coursera learners generally. Good graphics show results of an

According to figures reported by contentwatch.com in August 2012, 230 million pornographic web pages' access are being filtered out of thirty nine billion through their content filters. "The issue becomes even more complex when the cyberspace atrocities involve a state of not being known or identified by name (anonymity),

HR Daily provides valuable contributions in reference to older employees who give the rest of us the bad name. Struggling, for some, with technology does not mean everyone struggles however. Data shows that 69 percent of employees over age 45 plan to continue to work past 65. I am one of them, and I am fortunate to have had such a substantial technology base from my first entry into the workplace. Many have not as this article suggests and the obstacles they face are 2 fold. An employer who doesn't want to help them and their own fears of inadequacy as a result.

The preservation of cultural memory falls upon custodians of cultural memory. "Separating usage [allowing users to utilize exact replicas] from the original, digital technology affords multiple, simultaneous uses from a single original in ways that are simply not possible for materials stored in any other form" (p. 2). Although digital technologies afford advantages in the digital preservation of information, using digital technologies for preservation of original works poses ethical and moral concerns not previously encountered. Again, the continual evolution of technological devices and software severely challenges archival efforts. "…technological obsolescence represents a far greater threat to information in digital form than the inherent physical fragility of many digital media" (p. 5). "Jeff Rothenberg, for example, has recently suggested that there may be sufficient demand for entrepreneurs to create and archive emulators of software and operating systems that would allow the contents of digital information to be carried forward and used in its original format" (p. 6). Perhaps the greatest challenges facing digital archiving are "costs and the technical, legal and organizational complexities of moving digital information forward into the future raise our greatest fear about the life of information in the digital future: namely, that owners or custodians who can no longer bear the expense and difficulty will deliberately or inadvertently, through a simple failure to act, destroy the objects without regard for future use" (p. 7). To this end, the "Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) have joined together in charging the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information to take this first essential step toward a national system of digital preservation. They have asked the Task Force to "consult broadly among librarians, archivists, curators, technologists, relevant government and private sector or

The governance of the Internet provides one of the most important arenas in which new ideas regarding Internet studies can be applied and tested. . "If the government, NGOs and other stakeholders would expand their perspectives on Internet governance derived from more institutionalized arenas, and from a more sophisticated understanding of the way inter-state politics play a role in establishing the pressures and constraints of security policy, it would allow a more critical understanding of the way security claims can be exploited strategically to advance the interests of military and governmental actors'

from the article: "... Creative Commons - namely, that it's probably unnecessary. Creative Commons licenses depend on copyright in order to exist."

A look into how school public pages, specifically Facebook, can violate student privacy and concerns/values of privacy for families.