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Microsoft wants to apply AI ‘to the entire application developer lifecycle’
Emil Protalinski, Venture Beat, 2019/05/21

I'm quite sure that it's more than just Microsoft working toward this - in today's newsletter there are examples of the use of OpenAI in design tasks. The implications are far-reaching. Recall that 20 years ago the idea was that a learning object would be a part of a computer program or web application (not a chapter in a book). Now imagine AI-designed learning objects. Far-fetched? Not really.

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AI Generated Patent Claims
Tony Hirst, OUseful Info, 2019/05/21

Another iteration of the use of Jupyter Notebooks as learning resources: "With the book bundled as an electron app, you could download the app and run it, standalone, to view the book, with no web server required. (The web server used to serve the book is bundled inside the electron app.) " See also: OpenLearn Jupyter Books Remix, TM351 Notebooks in VM and Electron.

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Curation as an Educational Challenge
Silvia Tolisano, LangWitches, 2019/05/21

This is a good overview article on digital curation and contains quite a bit of detail about what it means, how to do it, some of the skills involved, and services and tools you can use to curate. I like the context of curation as a learning activity. Silvia Tolisano writes, "When students and teachers are expected to include reflections, recommendations, and relevant connections related to the learning, it adds value to the learning process. It also causes learners to be reflective about their evidence of learning, and how to make those reflections visible to others."

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Writing Collaboration with OpenAI: Context and Constraints
Kevin Hodgson, Kevin's Meandering Mind, 2019/05/21

Kevin Hodgson plays with OpenAI: "I could not resist feeding it some words to see what would happen, starting the lines of a poem about context and constraints, and in the image above, you can see what it spit out for me. There is something beautiful surfacing there..." I am no poetry critic, but it seems to me that coming out the other side are some really good poems. Here's a follow-up post - " how to find a poem inside the text generated by another poem." Because why not? You can play with the tool here. Related: AI-generated patent claims, also using OpenAI GPT-2.

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The Surprisingly Low Burden of Subscriptions at Institutions
Kent Anderson, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2019/05/21

Kent Anderson spent a number of years with th Scholarly Kitchen agitating in favour of subscription-based publication models and defending the journal publishers generally. He has since left in order to publish his own subscription-based newsletter. So I consider it ironic that he has to return to publicly accessible media to make the case for subscription journals, as he does in this colum. He argue that the overall cost is very low for institutions. No mention of the cost for people outside institutions. Anyhow, this was only a guest post, so I guess he'll return to his subscription-based newsletter where he will not reach the wider public he seeks to convince.

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A Closer Look at ELI 15 Key Issues of Teaching and Learning 2019
Lisa Hammershaimb, AACE Review, 2019/05/21

This post expands on the ELI '15 issues of teaching and learning' (1 page PDF) infographic (pictured). Topping the list is 'faculty development and engagement', naturally. The rest are more in tune with educational technology, including such things as blended learning, accessibility and digital literacy. It's a good, contemporary list. Each item is described with a short paragraph and the reader is prompted with some 'questions to consider'.

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