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How Canada’s Philanthropic Pop Industrial Complex Took Over The World
Ben Paynter, Fast Company, 2019/02/12

The most misleading word in this headline is "philanthropic". Our investment in music isn't charity. The story talks about government support for Canadian music, and even makes it clear that the funding program (through organizations like the Canada Music Fund and FACTOR) "wasn’t altruism... You need variety and good quality." Government investment not only creates success, it protects artists. “When the record breaks, they aren’t walking around L.A. signing (bad) record and management deals because that’s all they got.” Why is this important? Because we should be doing the same thing for open educational resources. The investment not merely supports the content itself, it supports the people making the content.

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Emerging Learning Technologies
Curtis J. Bonk, 2019/02/12

Curt Bonk's 'Monster' 76-page syllabus for this course has been updated with a lot of new resources from 2018. It just adds to what I've been saying about the growing complexity of our field. And you get to learn today's new word: "today’s millennial learner, immersed in an increasingly digital world is seeking richer and more engaging learning experiences; and now the new 'phigital' learner who is equally at home in the digital as well as physical world."

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A Framework for Modern Workplace Learning 2019
Jane Hart, Modern Workplace Learning, 2019/02/12

This is chapter 1 of a longer work (you'll have to pay for subsequent chapters, and they're not written yet) and a good introduction to the topic of modern workplace learning. The linchpin is the new framework (presented in a frustratingly small diagram; a big version would help tired old eyes like mine) where "everyone is responsible for their own continuous improvement, learning and development." In particular, Hart envisions a new role, "Modern Learning Advisors," who "enable and support learning by (a) helping individuals build modern learning skills, organize & manage their own self-development, and (b) helping managers and their teams get the most out of daily work experiences."

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Review: The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work by Richard Baldwin
Brian Castellani, Sociology and Complexity Science Blog, 2019/02/12

There are two major points being made hewre. The first is the oft-heard observation that "a new form of globalization will combine with software robots to disrupt service-sector and professional jobs." Second, and more significantly, "the current backlash against our global commitments to one another, particularly across western society, has very much to do with the failure of public policy to adequately address the negative impact that post-industrialization and globalisation have had on the working and middle classes."

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Setting up your first assignment face-to-face in class using Peergrade
W. Ian O'Byrne, YouTube, 2019/02/12

As the caption to this 7 minute video says, this is "a quick overview of how I use Peergrade as an activity in class to work through the process and expectations of peer evaluation and assessment." He outlines an exercise using a video on digital literacy; after watching the video, they use the application in class, and tghen use PeerGrade to write some quick responses. This allows him to introduce tome of the mechanisms of the tool, which allows them to set up rubrics for the evaluation of the responses.

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