Don Gorges __Audrey wrote this update last month “I had a couple of really solid months of working on Teaching Machines, but when the Fall rolled around, and I looked at my traveling and speaking schedule, I knew that there was just no way I’d finish it this year. [and] I want to jot down a few thoughts here about the process of self-publishing.” __ http://audreywatters.com/2014/12/01/on-self-publishing-my-monsters/ less
Don Gorges __Jennifer Reingold is a Rare excellent Journalist — Thanks for a Rare 1st person perspective – in conversation with John Fallon, who succeeded longtime Pearson CEO Marjorie Scardino. and insights — Fallon has gotten used to absorbing jeers aimed at Pearson. — A Rare sense of perspective of Pearson History and culture — “For all the breadth of Pearson’s education ambitions, it has been in the business for a relatively brief moment in the corporation’s long history. The S. Pearson & Son construction company was founded in Yorkshire in 1844.” less
Don Gorges __idea 01, to talk about Ontario / Ryerson / Academic perspectives of roles played in Learning and Performance Support Systems _ LPSS — Graphic on Slide 15/37 Stephen Downes Presentation _ http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/Downes/amrita-university-kerala-india2014-12-20-india/1_ less
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Simeon Sanders Totally agree that pressure should be on the content provider. Equal pressure should be placed on the software vendor, as all applications are not equally LTI compliant. If the LMS is not up to specs on ingesting common cartridge, a district could …more
Amy Kellogg Yes I agree as well!
Joseph Hall I distinctly remember projecting that this would be a district standard in 2012 by 2017 and being called to the carpet. I guess I wasn’t far off
Don Gorges __And adding to the conversation, OER advocates lobby policy changes towards gov-funding of free Community College curated-created educational resources.
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Don Gorges __Publishing Perspectives 2009 Article – “Cengage CEO Ron Dunn on Re-imagining Information Portals and TXTBKS” __background on “the launch of new “digital portals” which are marketed to university and public libraries, as well as a re-imagining of the textbook, with a new imprint, dubbed 4LTR.” _ http://publishingperspectives.com/2009/11/cengage-ceo-ron-dunn-on-re-imagining-information-portals-and-txtbks/ less
Don Gorges __Reading the Afterword first likely was the best start __ “Sterling links disruption to dragons.” __ “These are startups’ dragons. These are the technology industry’s dragons. These are the dragons of education technology too. These are our monsters.” __ A.W. folklore less
Don Gorges __Ironic behaviour for Texts.com founders Peter Frank and Ben Halpern who look for opportunities to exploit user created data, they covered “exploit for commercial purposes” in their own Terms of Service “You [Student – User] must not reproduce, sell or exploit for any commercial purposes any part of [this] Website, access to [this] Website or use of [this] Website or any services or materials available through [this] Website without obtaining a license to do so from the Company or its applicable licensor. Any use of [this] Website not expressly permitted by these TOU is a breach of these TOU and may violate copyright, trademark and other laws.” _ https://texts.com/terms-of-service less
Don Gorges __An ISBN is the only data needed for this basic service [online shopping]. Which Data enables better – optimal [Campus Bookstore] services [online shopping]. i.e. Student’s log-in ID for personal settings to tap additional data sources – enrolled courses requirements and more detailed readings in Professors Syllabus __ less
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