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LinkedIn research shows the importance of skill and competency management
Steven Forth, TeamFit, 2018/07/30

Referencing the LinkedIn 2018 Workplace Learning Report (51 page PDF) Steven Forth points to "the growing importance of skill management." Though it sounds like a fairly obvious thing to address, skills management is a moving target. "It depends on two things," writes Forth, "both of which most companies struggle with: What skills do we have now and how are we using them? What skills will we need in the future?" Forth's article is ultimately a plug for TeamFit, a corporate team-building application based on blending skill sets. The question is: how much more is there to team-building beyond gathering the required skills? Easpecially when, as the LinkedIn report says, "training for soft skills is the #1 priority for talent development in 2018."

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Celebrating the things we don’t measure
Gillian Light, A macgirl in a pc world, 2018/07/30

I appreciate the sentiment expressed in this post, and yet, as I read through the list of "things we don't measure" I was struck by how many of them are things we measure. Some examples: " how much more my students now speak in weekly literature circle discussions", " how engrossed they are in reading", "their growing time and resource management skills." And more. These aren't intangibles; they can all be measured, and the article is evidence that they are being measured, albeit without precision. Any time you say "more this" and "less that" and "better such-and-such" you are measuring.

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9 Answers That Will Be Buried With Moodlerooms As Moodle And Blackboard End Long Standing Partnership
Cristian T. Duque, Moodle News, 2018/07/30

Some of the 'answers' are pretty irrelevant. Who cares how much Martin Dougiamas is worth? Others are more interesting. "What will happen to Moodlerooms code base?" Ultimately, institutions that opted for Blackboard-owned Moodle services faced the same issues as any purchaser of commercial services: dependence on the commercial service.

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I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences.
Sunil Sandhu, Medium, 2018/07/30

React and Vue are frameworks for creating interactive web applications. I don't use either of them (I'm an old-school JQuery hack) but I've followed their development over the years and (of course) looked at code that uses them. This article will be of interest on two levels. One, if you actually do web application development, you can see the differences in approach. Two, even if you don't develop web applications, it can be interesting to see the nuances of what's involved in doing so - skip over the code fragments and focus on the descriptions of the elements involved.

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A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate
Adam Pah, Brian Uzzi, Rebecca Hinds, Harvard Business Review, 2018/07/30

As this summary stated in its original version, "Dropbox gave us access to project-folder related data, which we aggregated and anonymized." The result was a storm of protest. The story has since been rewritten to say Dropbox anonymized the data before handing it over to researchers. "We designed the study to fall within the scope of our Privacy Policy," said Dropbox in its own report. Julia Poncela-Casasnovas, the author who did most of the work (but is not in the HBR byline) said in an interview, "none of us at Northwestern ever saw the non-anonymized Dropbox data." From where I sit, the real story here is marketing staff at Dropbox using connections at HBR to pump up the readership of a research paper about - and authored with - Dropbox. Considerations like research ethics came a distant second, and this is reflected in the way the HBR article was first drafted.

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