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2019-08-19 15.00.15

daveymoloney
| August 19, 2019
Academic developer in the open by Claire McAviniaClaire McAvinia (learning and teaching in the digital age)

It’s been a positive challenge to study my Open University H880 module this year, at times very challenging when work has been especially busy. However, juggling and sometimes struggling have led to exciting and energising outcomes in recent weeks. We were asked to read the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and consider the connections between them and our course. Contextualising my learning, and then my work, in terms of the SDGs has given me a new focus. Academic development has the purpose of enhancing learning and teaching in higher education. SD Goal 4 is Quality Education: to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. This refers to all levels of education, and to learning across our lives. Access to technology is addressed as part of gender equality in Goal 5. Our work as teachers/educators, academic developers, educational technologists, and indeed open practitioners, links directly with the SDGs. We seek to improve the educational experiences of all students, and help our institutions to achieve their access and retention missions. This has been valuable in helping kick-start work ahead of the new academic year, but has also started me thinking again about how we frame academic development in relation to open education.

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2019-08-16 21.49.00

daveymoloney
| August 16, 2019
What is my main mission in life? by Johan BovéJohan Bové (Johan's Known)
What is my main mission in life? - something I am going to have to thoroughly think about... Reaching my fortees soon and I keep saying that I still don't really know what I would to _be when I grow up_ ...
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❤️ Online Color Picker From Image – Pick your color

daveymoloney
| August 16, 2019
Online Color Picker From Image – Pick your color by Chris M.Chris M. (mrkapowski.com)
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🔖 An introduction to Jupyter notebooks by James Slack, Service Manager, University of Edinburgh

daveymoloney
| August 14, 2019
An introduction to Jupyter notebooks by an author (#ALTC Blog)
Apologies for the title but I used up all my imaginative title mojo for our recently accepted ALT Conference Submission Out of this World: Jupyter notebooks and Noteable at the University of Edinbu…
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🔖 Check, Please! Starter Course Released

daveymoloney
| August 14, 2019
Check, Please! Starter Course Released (Hapgood)
As of yesterday, we’ve released the Check, Please! Starter Course, a three hour online module on source and fact-checking that can be dropped into any course or taken as a self-study experien…
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2019-08-09 11.27.32

daveymoloney
| August 9, 2019
Cian Aherne on Twitter (Twitter)
“Yessssss! https://t.co/WAPJ4TwAZE”
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🔖Truth, lies, & learning in an online disinformation war

daveymoloney
| August 7, 2019
Truth, lies, & learning in an online disinformation war by W. Ian O'Byrne (W. Ian O'Byrne)
According to existing laws of war and international human rights accords, children and schools (i.e., learning environments) are supposed to be protected when in warzones. In 1949, The Geneva Conve…
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🔖Personal Space: Rethinking “Distance” Learning – Robin DeRosa

daveymoloney
| August 7, 2019
Personal Space: Rethinking “Distance” Learning (actualham)
To follow along with the text of this presentation, view the Google Slides version of the talk as I give it: [This version below has image descriptions, so may be the best version if you are using …
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2019-08-02 23.15.08

daveymoloney
| August 2, 2019
Irish National Digital Experience Survey to be Launched Soon (National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)
The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning says that the Irish National Digital Experience Survey is to be launched soon.
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2019-08-02 22.53.11

daveymoloney
| August 2, 2019
https://doubleloop.net/2019/07/26/5950/ by Neil MatherNeil Mather (doubleloop.net)
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2019-08-02 22.45.23

daveymoloney
| August 2, 2019
TWP and Information Literacy: An Action Plan (Desert of My Real Life)
I’m in the middle of planning my section of Tackling a Wicked Problem for the Fall 2019 semester. One of the most important aspects of the class is that students learn about information liter…
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2019-08-02 09.06.44

daveymoloney
| August 2, 2019
A Reckoning for 2U, and OPMs? by Stephen DownesStephen Downes (Stephen's Web)

Normally I wouldn't cover stock market news, not even when a leading Online Program Management (OPM) company's stock drops 65% in one day. But this followed a frank assessment of the OPM market, and that is worth covering. " Online program management is a difficult business to be in. Online education is increasingly competitive, student acquisition and marketing costs are going up, and the regulatory landscape is becoming more complex... attracting large numbers of students to a particular online program is more challenging and more expensive than it was just a few years ago." Those who watch the technology space in general will recognize this as a familiar pattern - when you tie yourself to a platform, whether it's Facebook or the university system, your fortunes are tied to that platform, and that platform will eventually turn on you.

Direct link: https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/08/01/bad-day-2u-highlights-vulnerability-online-program-management

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2019-08-02 09.23.08

daveymoloney
| August 2, 2019
Some thoughts on the future of public higher education by Stephen DownesStephen Downes (Stephen's Web)

Tony Bates weighs in with a longish and well-thought-out post on the potential future of public education through the vehicle of a news report on education in the future province (?) of Cascadia: " Forget content delivery. Almost all the content we need to teach is already out there on the Internet, either as open educational resources or freely available through the Internet... we had to focus on the hard stuff, and that is high-level skills development that requires a skilled person – an instructor, although I prefer the term ‘counsellor’ – to help with the learning and training."

Direct Link: https://www.tonybates.ca/2019/07/28/some-thoughts-on-the-future-of-public-higher-education/

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2019-08-02 09.05.03

daveymoloney
| August 2, 2019
How to shrink a university and how to talk about it: one campus begins the process by Stephen DownesStephen Downes (Stephen's Web)
Bryan Alexander discusses the strategies being pursued by universities in the face of fiscal pressure: "Quality over quantity, right-sizing (from corporate America): key words for describing this strategy." But there's a disturbing aspect to this: "Will those be students from wealthier families?" The thing is, the more universities serve a small wealthy elite, the less there will be broad support for public funding. We already see this with complaints that student grants and loan forgiveness only benefit the rich. A lack of public support pushes them to contract even more. It's a downward spiral universities can correct only if they find a way to serve the wider public. Of course, my scepticism is such that I don't think many of them really have an interest in doing that. Direct link: https://bryanalexander.org/horizon-scanning/how-to-shrink-a-university-and-how-to-talk-about-it-one-campus-begins-the-process/
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2019-07-30 09.43.26

daveymoloney
| July 30, 2019
The best place to be is somewhere else? by Doug BelshawDoug Belshaw (Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel)
An article about FOMO, with some practical advice.
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