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Cursos masivos abiertos en línea: El caso de México
Ricardo Mercado del Collado, 2019/01/15

Cursos masivos abiertos en línea: El caso de México (MOOCs: The Case of Mexico). 221 page PDF book download, in Spanish. I have a chapter in it: Visiones y rutas: Aprendizaje en línea y MOOC (Visions and pathways: Online Leaning and MOOCs), also in Spanish (my thanks to the translator). ¡Disfruten!

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Learning Electron
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, 2019/01/15

This is a two-part post (Part 1, Part 2) I wrote describing my experiences taking a Udemy course on Electron, which is an application that enables you to create desktop software for Windows, Mac and Linux using only Javascript, CSS and HTML. I made the course my project over the recent holiday break (we all do different things for fun). In these posts I not only describe what I learned and how I leaned it, but also my (not so pleasant) experience taking a course on Udemy.

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How To Write A Philosophy Paper: Online Guides
Justin Weinberg, Daily Nous, 2019/01/15

These are all pretty good guides and offer a fairly uniform view of what a good philosophy paper should look like. These are very different from what (say) a research paper in the field of education would look like. The latter are often structured to resemble empirical science (like you might find in engineering or physics) but are based on 'instruments' like surveys and polls. I personally think the philosophical approach is more suitable for education, given that there is little agreement on the goals, methods, instruments and outcomes of educational theory. At the very least, writers in education should (a) state a thesis, and (b) offer convincing evidence that the thesis is true.

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Printing Delays Present ‘New Normal’ for Academic Books
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, 2019/01/15

While some would like you to believe that “Reports of the death of the book, it seems, have been greatly exaggerated,” the storyline suggests a very different conclusion. It's this: " There’s been a lot of consolidation and now there’s less capacity." In some parts of the publishing industry there have been paper shortages and production is curtailed. Meanwhile, "university presses have in recent years been printing books in smaller batches so that they don’t end up with unsold books."

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Tap Into The Educational Potential of Twitter with These EdTech Hashtags
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, 2019/01/15

Some reading ideas. Also: "We have already featured some examples in the past but today we are sharing with you this wonderful chat calendar that aggregates all education-related chats together with their dates."

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