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Stephen Downes, Apr 27, 2021,

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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights forum
MIGS Montreal, YouTube, 2021/04/27

Here are links to the video recordings from the Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights forum. You can access the program and list of speakers on the conference website. Here are the link for each day:

• 20 April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtvKLaOw4S0 
• 21 April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-hADEXCO18
• 22 April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbGj8dogB-E
• 23 April:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzRxqROm1q0

Again, links to videos with no paywall or spamwall. This is the way to do it.

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Highlights from the Coursera Conference 2021
Dhawal Shah, Class Central, 2021/04/27

As Dhawal Shah reports, the Coursera conference and many others went virtual, making them more accessible to people worldwide. In this case, 'more accessible' means that many of the sessions were recorded, but are hidden behind a spamwall so you can't just quickly watch them online. Interestingly, two degrees account for More than half Coursera’s degree students: the Illinois’ iMBA, and the the University of London’s bachelor’s in computer science. The pandemic was very good for Coursera, which by making much of its catalogue free for institutions amassed 2.7 million new students and 24M enrollments. It also provided free access to governments, creating more than 100 partnerships this way. Coursera also announced a 'similarity score' for assignments, to detect plagiarism.

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OERxDomains21’s Instant Archive
Jim Groom, bavatuesdays, 2021/04/27

It felt like Every Conference in the World was taking place at the same time last week. One of these was the OERxDomains conferences which overlapped the ALT OER community with Domain of One's Own (let me remind readers once again that this is not the OER community, it's one of many around the world). It's a good mix, and in this post Groom waxes enthusiastic about the way using YouTube uploads and live streaming resulted in an instant conference archive (yes, some of us have been doing this for years, but this format is a rarity among academic institutions). I like the innovative (yet still retro) site design but people using a desktop will find it unintuitive - you need to click the hamburger button (upper right) to see any of the pages, and then look for the red 'Play' button to watch the YouTube videos. See also this post.

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Giving CRediT where CRediT is Due
Paula Demain, ORCID, 2021/04/27

This post described ORCID support for the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) in its APIs and documentation. "Research contributors—who may have multiple roles per published work—can now have all facets of their work recognized." Even more importantly, I think, some people perhaps not previously credited will be acknowledged (there's no need to go to the absurdity of listing the caterers, the way the movie industry does, but crediting software designers or project administration in a research publication seems perfectly appropriate). 14 roles are listed, which probably isn't enough. It would be interesting to see a similar approach for educational materials.

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The Most Complicated Object in the Universe
Tom Barrett, Tom Barrett's Blog, 2021/04/27

Imagine what we would think today about learning and development if the IQ test had originally been a drawing test. That's what this post invites us to consider as it describes the Goodenough test developed in 1926 where children draw portraits and the results are strictly judged. "We’ve settled on a particular concept of intelligence defined by a short list of measurable mental talents (that) tend to focus on abilities such as mental control, processing speed and quantitative reasoning." We could instead be measuring such things as perspective, spatial recall, and interpretation.

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