jokes

Zara & Bunny Tell the Chocolate Easter Bunny Joke

23 Mar 2008 By Nate Angell Leave a Comment

Digital Transformation: What Is It?

Digital Transformation: What Is It?

Digital transformation in EDU.

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Open Knowledge Institutions

Advancement occurs as a reward for connectedness and usefulness, not for elite recognition.

Change the metric of EDU success from excellence to connectedness and usefulness.

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Open Knowledge Institutions

Open knowledge institutions of higher learning foreground and prioritise the constituent communities that their students, alumni, faculty, staff, administrators, partners and collaborators both comprise and promote.

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Opinion | The Never-Ending Disruption of American History

Political and technological dislocation have fed off each other since the nation’s founding. Now they are dangerously out of whack.

The underlying premise is that there used to be a balance between tech innovation and political response in the USA, but since Reagan, there has not.

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A radically open approach to developing infrastructure for Open Science

I believe a model where commercial providers develop and maintain open scholarly communications infrastructure requires four basic principles of openness: Open Source, Open Data, Open Integrations, and Open Contracts.

Hindawi CEO lays out the four elements he sees as key to proprietary companies participating effectively in building and providing infrastructure to support open science.

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Promoting innovation and reducing inequity in scholarship: Europe’s Plan S for Open Science

The plan, which was initiated by Robert Jan Smits, the Open Access Envoy of the European Commission, outlines 10 principles, which can be distilled into four essential actions:

A summary of Plan S, the European plan to support open access publishing.

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Resources

Stakeholder FAQs

FAQs on open access policies from the Open Research Funders Group.

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Open education resources and perceptions of financial value

Open education resources and perceptions of financial value

OER and cost perceptions.

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Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part II | National Review

Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part II

Also see [Part I of this interview](https://hyp.is/0e4qkrRwEeiXf9foltyMXw/www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/jonathan-haidt-coddling-of-the-american-mind-igen-students/) with Jonathan Haidt.

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Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part 1 | National Review

Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part 1

Also see [Part II of this interview](https://hyp.is/rtvD8rRwEei5Ac-jMgZp7A/www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/jonathan-haidt-coddling-of-the-american-mind-college-experience/) with Jonathan Haidt.

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College of Social Sciences and Humanities < Northeastern University

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities is a leader in the experiential liberal arts.

Outline of experiential education requirements at a specific university.

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The Promise of the Experiential Liberal Arts

The Promise of the Experiential Liberal Arts

Argues for integrating experiential education into liberal arts, and experiential liberal arts into every discipline to advance "soft skills".

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Leveraging Technology to Create Social Readers

Between publishers' higher costs of textbooks and students' struggle with large amounts of reading materials, getting students to both access and engage more deeply with texts is a challenge.

Two challenges that #OER and #annotation together can provide infrastructure to help solve: the high cost of learning materials and engaging teachers and learners in social reading, discussion and analysis. Issues to solve: both OER and annotation don't require digital reading, but are both made more powerful through it. Yet technology access and reading preferences don't always support to digital reading. Solution: Explore online and offline, digital and print experiments in OER and annotation/social reading.

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A Broader Form of Openness – Ethan Senack – Medium

most of all, re-establishes education as a force for equity and social mobility — and I think open licensing is a crucial piece of that equation.I’m not content, though, with open licensing being the extent of our vision, and I hope many others feel the same way.

Amen: open licensing as key infrastructure in improving public education rather than an end in itself!

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What

Collaboration started during April, 2018.

Inception date for the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools.

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Engineering Levels

Patreon Engineering Levels

Engineering focus, but a very detailed rubric of how to rank different personnel levels. Could maybe be generalized/adapted for other fields.

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Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1

Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1

See also [my tweet](https://twitter.com/xolotl/status/1031980453421408256): What I coincidence! Like Facebook, I also measure people's credibility on a scale of zero to one, or what I like to think of as a scale of Pinocchio to Cassandra. It would be cool to hear what @marshallk @holden and @vgr think of this:

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Remi Kalir on Twitter: "Well, for the record, I had no idea. Emojis for everyone! /insert awesome emoji here/… "

insert awesome emoji here

❤️

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Señorita Spielberg on Twitter

emoji-tate

👍🏿❤️

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7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Policies

Administrators who are charged with the development of open education policy may not fully understand the opportunities inherent in OER and OEP, partic-ularly for learners.

The other key area of alignment: with learners.

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