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Tom Woodward

That Study Never Happened | ThinkThankThunk - 1 views

shawncornally.com/wordpress

learning metrics weekly

shared by Tom Woodward on 17 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Tom Woodward on 17 Jan 15
     
    "If we've let the fickleness of history and public policy describe the bizarre set of standards (looking at you, Math) and therefore the metrics that we'll measure all students against, you'll end up with a system designed for those metrics. Instead, if you define your own measures, and actually study longitudinally their validity, we'll end up in a place where perhaps we'll value the emotional-intelligence development of a teenager above their ability to comply with outdated curricula. Maybe we'll come to value the nuance of entrepreneurial thought opposed to attempting to cram a line of reasoning they stole wholesale from Reddit into five paragraphs 20 minutes before the paper is due. "
michaelreis

SACSCOC Best Practices/OLC scorecard for ID approaches - 1 views

www.uab.edu/...licy-gap-analysis_11_12_14.pdf

onlinelearning higher education

shared by michaelreis on 18 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • michaelreis on 18 Mar 16
     
    From another institution-- scorecard breaking down popular instructional design metrics (e.g. Quality Matters) with SACSCOC online/blended best practices for compliance.
anonymous

Ev Williams is The Forrest Gump of the Internet - The Atlantic - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...486899

open medium

shared by anonymous on 17 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • 85 cents of every new dollar in online advertising went to Google or Facebook in early 2016
  • The developers who wrote Drupal and Wordpress, two important pieces of blogging software, both recently expressed anxiety over the open web’s future. Since so many of these social networks are operated by algorithms, whose machinations are proprietary knowledge, they worry that people are losing any control over what they see when they log on. The once-polyphonic blogosphere, they say, will turn into the web of mass-manufactured schlock.
  • For all the talk of their radical openness, blogs had mostly been the domain of those with hosting space, programming experience, and the time to write them
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  • If your job was to feed people, but you were only measured by the efficiency of calories delivered, you may learn over time that high-calorie, high-processed foods were the most efficient ways to deliver calories,” he says. They would be the most margin-friendly way to deliver calories. But the food still wouldn’t be good—because the original metric didn’t take into account “sustainability, or health, or nourishment, or happiness of the people.”
  • Google and Facebook, just two companies, send more than 80 percent of all traffic to news sites. (No wonder they make 85 cents of every digital-ad dollar.
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