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Bologna 20 years on – Look at the bigger picture
Anne Corbett, 2018/07/25

This reflection on 20 years of the Bologna process in Europe is written in the context of the release of the European Commission's Bologna Process Implementation Report. There's a lot to chew on here, with 762 pages of text spread over seven PDF documents. Major objectives of the process (as documented in the executive summary) include the recognition of qualifications, quality assurance, and enabling learning and teaching. To add to the complexity, Anne Corbett's short review is written from a British perspective which, as she notes, "is only belatedly at government level recognising the advantages of European higher education and research cooperation."

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Feedback requested on Canada's draft 2018-2020 Open Gov Plan
Richard Ackerman, Science Library Pad, 2018/07/25

Richard Ackerman links to the Canadian government's 4th consultation on open government, this one for the years 2018-2020. According to the site: "You can comment on all or one of the commitments below via Google Docs:

1. User-friendly open government
2. Financial transparency and accountability
3. Corporate transparency
4. Digital government and services
5. Open science
6. Healthy democracy
7. Access to Information
8. Feminist and inclusive open government
9. Reconciliation and open government
10. Leadership and collaboration

You can also comment directly on the draft commitments through our open information portal or by emailing us." Make your voice heard. Unless, of course, you're a Russian bot.

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French school in row over tracking pupils electronically
BBC News, 2018/07/25

This is another story in the electronic tracking thread, this one from France, where a protest has erupted over the use of Bluetooth tracking devices to monitor students at the Lycée Rocroy Saint-Vincent de Paul. The Bluetooth devices (called 'fobs' in the article) were developed by a French tech start-up called NewSchool.

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Can a Subscription Model Work for Online Learners and Teachers? Skillshare Just Raised $28 Million to Find Out
Tony Wan, EdSurge, 2018/07/25

We've seen the subscription model for courses adopted by a number of companies (most notably Lynda) so it's not a surprise to see Skillshare looking in this direction. Skillshare's monthly rate is substantially lower, though, and there's a revenue-sharing plan with course developers. It's raising funding to develop "a 'groups' feature, where discussions that were previously accessible only within a course will be publicly discoverable by any user" and "'workshops,' which are essentially bundles of courses packaged around a specific topic."

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