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Chatham House Sharing for OER
Michael Caulfield, Hapgood, 2019/12/23

I always thought it was 'Charterhouse Rules', but I guess not (I say this after a Google search for the alternatives). The idea of the rules is that "you can report out anything said, but you can’t identify who said it." This is because, presumably, "people need to speak freely as they hash out things at a conference, and to do that they sometimes have to speak loosely in ways that don’t translate outside the conference." Of, as I interpret such rules, "they're able to lie with impunity either inside or outside the meeting." Anyhow, this post isn't that: it's a suggestion that the Chatham House Rules could apply to open educational resource (OER) production: "in open education there is a need for a form of sharing that works like this, especially in collaborative projects."

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Hacking the MOOC: Towards a Postdigital Pedagogy of Critical Hope
Joel Lazarus, Postdigital Science and Education, 2019/12/23

This post (22 page PDF) is thickly laden with jargon and a theoretical overlay, but its core message is clear enough: "I am arguing that radical cMOOCs should be designed with and express a consciousness of class relations of knowledge production and that the relations and knowledge we cultivate through our cMOOC experience and endeavours can express our personal and collective power to overturn and transform these relations." Well, yes, that's one message we could get from a cMOOC. But it's not the only message, and it's not the only way to see the world.

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Authoritarian Thinking
nick shackleton-jones, aconventional, 2019/12/23

I am sensitive to this and see it all the time: "Keep an eye out for this social architecture. You will start to notice it several times a day: the instinctive (infantile) deference to some beardy bloke with academic titles. Bear in mind that they may be part of the problem."

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ATARs measure privilege, not academic merit, and it starts in kindergarten
Tara Schultz, ABC News, 2019/12/23

If we combine the philosophy of testing with the well-established fact that socioeconomic status is the best predictor of academic success, then we must draw the conclusion in the title. This article is a forthright and frank story about how that played out for one person. "I failed school because I grew up in a world that exists beneath yours. I learnt a range of skills that helped me survive in the impoverished world I was born into. But the more I learned about negotiating that world, the more I found myself pushed out of the mainstream one where "normal" kids did well at school."

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The War for Corporate Learning Platforms Gets Hotter
Josh Bersin, 2019/12/23

This is a pretty good overview of the shifting market in corporate e-learning technology (I wouldn't classify it as a "war" since as far as I know no violence has occurred, happily). One point of focus is the learning experience platform (LXP), "intelligent learning portals that use a variety of approaches to making all forms of learning content (articles, videos, courses, podcasts) easy to find for employees." These need to be linked with (or merged with) 'systems of record' in the corporate environment. Meanwhile, added to the mix, are program management platforms (PMP), " end-to-end platforms that manage entire learning programs." See also this from Bersin.

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Glossary Items
Training Industry, 2019/12/23

I was looking for something else (specifically - pre-2015 references to 'learning experience platform' - why is Google's date-based search so unreliable?) when I encountered this glossaty of training industry terms. Useful. I wonder whether there is a more comprehensive community-sourced version of the same sort of thing.

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