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__”At the end of each year, Webbmedia Group Digital Strategy applies our forecasting model to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and technology for the year ahead. We’ve just published our annual Trend Report, and it features 81 notable trends and more than 100 companies and people to watch in 2016.” Amy Webb WebbmediaGroup-2016-TechTrends.pdf _ webbmediagroup com/2016-trends _
Philanthropist, principal establish rare book collection
Principal Daniel Woolf always intended to donate his rare book collection to Queen’s University. He was inspired to accelerate that plan, though, thanks to the generosity of Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist Seymour Schulich.
“When I met Mr. Schulich, we discovered a shared interest in rare books. Because we’re both passionate about sharing this material with the broader academic community, we agreed to give our collections and create the Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection,” says Principal Woolf, who provided items from his collection for an exhibit by Queen’s Library in 2014. “This collection will serve to enrich the teaching and learning experience at Queen’s and support research activity across the broader academic community.”
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McGraw Hill’s New Personalized Learning Authoring Product
SmartBooks are based on a technology developed by a company called Area9, which was acquired by McGraw Hill in 2014 (although the company used the technology in products for several years before then and purchased a twenty percent equity stake in 2013). The heart of the platform is a set of algorithms designed to optimize the commitment of knowledge to long-term memory.
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__Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a Good Deal for Canadian Innovators Commentary by Richard C Owens _ MLICommentaryOwens-12-15-final.pdf
Why the TPP is a good deal for Canadian innovators | Barry Sookman
Richard Owens, a Toronto lawyer, adjunct professor of law at the University of Toronto, and the former Executive Director of the University of Toronto Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, has published an important commentary on the TPP titled “Debunking Alarmism Over the TPP and IP: Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a Good Deal for Canadian Innovators”.
The article, published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, surveys the IP and e-commerce chapters of the TPP dispelling errors and aspersions about them and concluding that “It would be terrible if public debate were so undermined by misinformation as to seriously threaten such an important deal.” He also provides helpful analysis of key Articles in the treaty explaining the rationale for their inclusion and arguing that they will benefit Canadian innovators. He is also complimentary about Canada’s success in the negotiations stating “In any event, one is hard-pressed to point to Canadian concessions in Chapters 14 and 18. Even the one significant change, to the 70-year copyright term, also benefits Canadians.”
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How Houghton Mifflin Harcourt moved from product to platform | PCWorld
Open Educational Resources Grants – Simon Fraser University
Sponsored by the VP, Academic, the SFU Library and the TLC jointly provide small grants to support the adoption of Open Textbooks and other Open Educational Resources (OER) in SFU courses. These grants support faculty members wishing to redesign courses using OER as primary course materials. OER adoption is one way to address textbook affordability for students, and to encourage local development and adaptation of high quality open resources for use in SFU courses. In addition to the funding provided by these grants, in-kind contributions from the SFU Library and the TLC will assist recipients in locating, evaluating, and adapting high quality Open Resources as an alternative to expensive commercial course materials.
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Focusing on the Future of Open Educational Resources (OER)
The future integration and successful use of Open Educational Resources (OER) are linked to four key elements in their development and adoption: building commitment, assuring quality, unbundling and language diversity. With these in place, OER can reach its potential for students, faculty/instructors, and colleges and universities.
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__Paul Stacey posted the second in a series of six Medium articles connected to the research underway about open business models __ https://lnkd.in/e_wHkm5
Maximize Abundance — Made with Creative Commons
This is the second in a series of six Medium articles connected to the research underway by Creative Commons for its Kickstarter-funded book about open business models to be published summer 2016. This work has three parts. Part 1 explores how open businesses models are based more on abundance than scarcity. Part 2 continues that exploration with an eye to how abundance affects design and development of open business model strategies. And finally, in Part 3 we get down into specifics around how open business model organizations generate revenue to sustain and thrive.
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It’s time to grow a pair. Let’s hear it for dads.
Envy men. Because if advertising is any indication, there’s never been a better time to be one.Marketers have long mined the clichés of womanhood to deliver the bottom line. Dove’s Real Beauty trope has had a healthy 10-year run and counting. Various female themes have run the gamut from insecure teens to moms as the unsung heroes, toiling stoically in the laundry room, making thankless dinners, all the while inspiring their children to Olympian heights (P&G). Tears well in our eyes just thinking about their selfless maternal nobility. After we reach for our handkerchiefs, we reach for our wallets. Advertisers know that putting mom on a pedestal wins. It’s a well-worn path to your purse.
Well, it would appear the tide has turned. It’s daddy’s turn to sell, and sell he does. Fathers seem to provide – somewhat ironically – the motherlode of creative inspiration these days. Testosterone is shilling everything from pants and cereal to Citroëns and running shoes.
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__sorry, I know you’re way too busy to watch 25 ads but see – ‘Puppyhood‘ – for a smile _
CELEBRATING THE YOUTUBE ADS OF 2015
The best of ads of 2015 have made us all laugh, cry, think and feel inspired. YouTube has partnered with The Webby Awards to select 25 of the most iconic ads of 2015, based on this year’s YouTube Ads Leaderboard.
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__”Fair dealing is so vaguely defined in the bill, according to Degen, that it had immediate negative consequences for Canadian authors. Schools went ahead and copied entire chapters, entire stories, poems, and entire articles. One of the key findings of the study, Harnum said, is that without licensing income, many Canadian publishers will not only reduce their content output, but many may choose to exit the educational publishing market. Degen said that although the bill’s intent was to save student money on books, it has not had the expected results, as education costs in Canada have raised in recent years, both in fees and in course packs.”
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Introducing Wikity
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I show how you can work in Wikity in the video below. In brief, the idea is other people’s investigations or explanations of things feed into what you are exploring; you add your bit to that and feed it forward for others to use. At the same time, since people work in their own space, everybody gets to keep control of their own process, built to achieve their own ends
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Markdown added to Wikity
Pearson is a lesson in how tough the education sector really is
If things get much worse in the US for Pearson, the financial pressures could start to tell
__Stephen Downes “What do I conclude? The good news is, there’s a lot of free and open content out there. But there are some serious questions that need to be asked. First, most of the so-called ‘free’ licenses counted come from very few sites, and these are sites where only the ‘free’ license is used. Second, it seems clear that, when given a choice, most people choose a non-commercial license.” it’s good advice to look at the source data . . . _ https://lnkd.in/ecV-jaz __ https://lnkd.in/eQehY4B
Stephen Downes on the State of the Commons Report
__Visual communications Simplifies complex concepts. Encourages online learners to organize key ideas. Boosts knowledge retention. __ https://lnkd.in/erMU5NF
Visual Thinking In eLearning: What eLearning Professionals Should Know – eLearning Industry
How To Use Visual Thinking In eLearning.
top 3 Visual Thinking Benefits In eLearning
__The following letter to the editor was submitted to Maclean’s Magazine in response to its Nov. 30, 2015, online story, “Why colleges are increasingly being seen as the smart choice.” – which was “short on data and big on tired myths,” according to Paul Davidson, President and CEO of Universities Canada. __ https://lnkd.in/eNbSYEC
Students need meaningful data when choosing postsecondary education – Universities Canada
The following letter to the editor was published in Maclean’s Magazine on December 11, 2015 in response to its Nov. 30, 2015, online story, “Why colleges are increasingly being seen as the smart choice.”
By Paul Davidson, president and CEO, Universities Canada
To the Editor,
Today’s students need meaningful data in making decisions about postsecondary education and careers. Unfortunately, Carolyn Abraham was short on data and big on tired myths (“Why colleges are increasingly being seen as the smart choice,” Dec. 1), missing the reality of Canada’s need for all types of skills, knowledge and credentials to achieve its economic and social potential.
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__Several months after joining HMH, in 2012, John offered a very in-depth explanation about the rebranding of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in a video titled “Revitalizing A Storied Brand” _ the video is embedded in this Design-focused article which described the thinking around the new corporate ID and the tag – Inspire curiosity _ http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/triangle_is_as_triangle_does.php#.VnnHnVKRTRK _