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Personal Learning vs Personalized Learning: What Needs to Happen
Stephen Downes, Oct 17, 2018, Online Learning 2018, Toronto, Ontario

This special briefing explores personal learning as the future of learning, explores why it's important, the tools which enable personal learning and the significant potential of personal learning as a key to life-long learning and the skills agenda.

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When Will It Just Be Machines Talking to Machines?
Tony Hirst, OUseful Info, 2018/10/17

If it's just machines talking to machines then I don' see why I should be interested, but of corse the gist of the post revolves around whether these machines are trying to influence us. This may sound like a trivial question - and I like Tony Hirst's examples - but it raises the deeper issue of what constitutes (if anything does) machine autonomy. Because someone, somewhere, created the algorithms that automatically create headlines or autofill forms. At a certain important level it's people influencing people, but those people are well-hidden by the machines.

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The Library is Open: Keynote for the 2018 Pennsylvania Library Association Conference
Robin DeRosa, actualham, 2018/10/17

This is a forward-looking presentation on the sometimes strained relationship between libraries and OER. " Moving to OER is about committing to learning environments that respect the realities of place, that engage with the contexts for learning, that challenge barriers that try to co-opt public channels for private gain, and that see learning as a fundamentally infinite process that benefits from human interaction."

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