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Modernizing Learning: Building the Future Learning Ecosystem Modernizing Learning: Building the Future Learning Ecosystem
J.J. Walcutt, Sae Schatz, Advanced Distributed Learning, 2019/04/08

Counterintuitively, the first impression you will have on reading this 416-page document is brevity. It does not waste words. It's also a pretty traditional presentation of the subject - not necessarily a bad thing. The cognitivist perspective on learning ("starts with awareness of stimuli, cognitive encoding of that information, and its retention in memory") will appeal to some but by no means all. On the other hand, the volume as a whole is very well-written and clear, is comprehensive, and serves as an excellent overview of the subject. There's a lot there, but you can get through it in a day, and it will be a day well spent. It's free but you need to create an account to download, but it's CC-by, so I put a copy on my site you can download directly (416 page PDF) without filling out forms.

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Micropub Rocks
Chris Aldrich, Google Slides, 2019/04/08

This is a slide presentation describing (and promoting) the micropub specification. Micropub "is an open API standard (W3C Recommendation) for creating, editing, and deleting posts on websites and is supported by numerous third-party clients and CMSs." The idea is that you pick one application and then post anywhere. It's a great idea that needs to become a bit more intuitive in order to work. But I definitely endorse the principle. Good slides (lobve the front page) with lots of links to applications.

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Who is going to help build a pro-social web?
Dave Cormier, Dave’s Educational Blog, 2019/04/08

Dave Cormier calls on all of use to help build a better internet. "Please participate. Do it well. Put your values on the internet. Our society is literally being shaped by the internet right now, and will be for the foreseeable future." I'm all for that. But as I commented: " No amount of human posting will be sufficient to counter bot-driven (or mechanical-turk-driven) counter-content. No amount of careful contributions will turn off the surveillance and targeted advertising." And that's the conundrum we face.

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Content Getting a New Personalized Voice, Image
Miles Weston, Digital Producer Magazine, 2019/04/08

I've had a podcast for many years - here it is. It's not a nice neat podcast with weekly episodes and such - that's far too organized for me. But any time I give a talk I record the audio and throw the result into my podcast, and you can use the RSS feed to subscribe to it in your favourite podcatcher. All this by way of saying that I'm invested in the podcast genre, and it's something that resonates with me. This article points to and documents therise of the medium. "The popularity of special interest audio/video podcasts has grown steadily among both sexes and all age groups.  With more than half of the world’s population now online, the breadth of audio and video shows capturing audience attention continues to grow." Podcasting will in the future be increasingly challenged by content silos with paywalls. I hope it survives.

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