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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Apr 10, 2017
How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing
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I've started using Unpaywall Linka
browser extension that finds open access versions of closed
access publications. For example, is a search takes me to a
closed Elsevier article, Unpaywall might find the Arxiv
version. Too Cool. "We’re setting up a lemonade stand
right next to the publishers’ lemonade stand," says
Mr. Priem. "They’re charging $30 for a glass of
lemonade, and we’re showing up right next to them and
saying, ‘Lemonade for free’." I'm just waiting
for them to find a way to declare this illegal. Also, free
lemonade. They'll declare that illegal too.
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I Don’t Need Permission to be Open
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What is open pedagogy? According to David Wiley
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is the set of teaching and learning practices only possible
or practical in the context of the 5R permissions... (it)
is the set of teaching and learning practices only possible
or practical when you are using OER." This struck some
readers, including Jim Groom, as wrong, and after a Twitter
argument (these never go well) he explains in a post. "But,
I do wonder at the push to consolidate the definition
beyond OERs into Open Educational Practices," he writes.
"Seems to me there is an attempt to define it in order to
start controlling it.... I think the locking down of open
is dangerous. I think it draws lines where they need not
be, and it reconsolidates power for those who define it." I
am much more sympathetic with Groom's perspective. Open
Pedagogy is not just about resources, it's not just about
open resources, and ideally, it's not about licensing and
ownership at all.
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When Pixels Collide
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I'm not sure what principle this illustrates - chaos,
maybe, cooperation, a bit, collaboration certainly, and
competition too. Here's the set-up: last weekend Reddit
created a grid where members could colour one pixel at a
time, but would have to wait a few minutes before colouring
the next one. People quickly learned to cooperate, and then
these cooperatives began to compete with each other, and
then they began to cooperate, and it's all a beautiful
worldwide story of collective iconography played out over a
weekend (complete with 4chan villains).
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Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without
Centralized Training Data
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One of the problems with learning analytics and analytics
in general is that it requires a lot of data. This means
you have to watch what a lot of people are doing, which has
ethical and privacy implications. The federated analytics
model described here attempts to address these issues.
"Your device downloads the current model, improves it by
learning from data on your phone, and then summarizes the
changes as a small focused update. Only this update to the
model is sent to the cloud." Of course, you have to trust
that your device is actually doing this.
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Rules of memory 'beautifully' rewritten
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If (and it's a big if) this thesis (pay-walled study
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correct, then proponents of cognitive load theory
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have a lot of rethinking to do. The suggestion is that
while brains do indeed store short-term and long-term
memory, they store these using two separate processes. So a
memory doesn't have to be squeezed through short-term
memory before it becomes a long-term memory. This makes a
lot of sense to me - people like Romeo Dallaire talk
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detailed complex traumatic memories of wartime where the
entire experience stored and plays back over and over,
brushing by the limits of cognitive overload as if they
didn't even exist. "Post-traumatic stress disorder
hard-wires events in your brain to the extent they will
come back in digitally clear detail to your brain. You
don't actually remember them. You relive them."
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How The New York Times, CNN, and The Huffington Post
approach publishing on platforms
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I'm not sure whether this represents a sea change or is
just a blip, but the New York Times, which was one of the
original partners when Facebook launched Instant
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2015, has not ceased publishing that way. It still
publishes a lot of content to platforms (as do most major
publishers) but now in the form of links rather than full
content. It is worth noting that the Times is trying
(still) to make its way as a subscription-based service.
This article documents the trend for a number of
publishers.
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