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Trap daddy
Victor Mair, Language Log, 2022/07/12

The story here is that a fraudster created an entire fake history of Russia in the Chinese language version of Wikipedia, where "some places and people are completely made up, while other stories are linked and interwoven with reality", but the fun part of the article is what the hoax was called: a 坑爹 ( kēngdiē), which as Victor Mair says is "a slang neologism used to signify "dishonest; fraudulent; deceptive; be contrary to what one expected." It is also "a Chinese internet slang word that directly translates as hole (坑 kēng), which here means "cheat," and dad (爹 diē). In other words, to do something to cheat or make life difficult for your dad." In other words, a 'trap daddy'. Anyhow, the damage from this particular trap daddy was significant: "So many professors and students in China have been deceived. There are at least 100 dissertations that have quoted false information." Image: Mengniang Encyclopedia.

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Learning Outcomes: Conversion, Abstraction, Rejection
Julian Stodd, Julian Stodd's Learning Blog, 2022/07/12

What, exactly, are learning outcomes. There are the explicit things that we can measure, but there's a lot more besides that. "It's possible that we can 'learn', and yet not think and act differently, and yet still carry some value from the experience," writes Julian Stodd. In particular, he looks at three learning outcome phenomena: conversion, where one outcome is intended, but the learner takes something completely different away from it; abstraction, where the learner takes a part of what was learned and keeps it for future reference; and rejection, where what is taught is actually rejected by the learner. In all three cases you wouldn't exactly say 'nothing was learned', but that's what the test would say.

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Interview with Stephen Downes on E-Learning and Connectivism
Susan Smith Nash, E-Learning Corgi, 2022/07/12

Susan Nash, a long-time contributor to the edtech space, interviews me on Zoom. I'm using my new video camera as a webcam, so the video is (at times) better than usual. Wide ranging interview covering what I'm working on, what I think about MOOCs, and how baseball players and physicists are doing fundamentally the same thing.

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The Broken Dream – LXP
Craig Weiss, 2022/07/12

When the  Learning Experience Platform (LXP) market made its official appearance it was supposed to be the game-changer, writes Craig Weiss. But it was always at offs with training and development departments. "The LXP was flawed was the moment the LXP industry as a whole added 'assigned learning'. It was at that exact moment (okay, shortly thereafter) that the 'learner-centric' premise started to disappear." There will always be an LXP market, he writes, but it was never going to be what people dreamed. "Change is hard to do, and when combined with misperception, misconception, and lack of awareness, will lead any company to flawed results and in some cases, catastrophic failure."

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Is Metaverse in education a blessing or a curse: a combined content and bibliometric analysis
Ahmed Tlili, et al., Smart Learning Environments, 2022/07/12

The value of this paper is in the overview description it offers of the meaning of the term 'metaverse' and in particular the reference to the four types of Metaverse according to Metaverse Roadmap Summit, as summarized by Kye, et al. "The Metaverse does not simply combine the physical and virtual worlds; it is instead a continuity of the physical world in the virtual world to create an ecosystem that merges both worlds (physical and virtual)." The weakness is that the discussion is drawn from only a small number of research studies, and these are concentrated on two (virtual reality and augmented reality) of the four types.

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