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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Apr 11, 2017
A Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps
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I spent a good part of the day
investigating progressive web apps
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These are the result of a model proposed by Google back in
2015 that merges web browser applications with mobile
applications. The idea is that you write the same code for
everything, and this code is progressive (runs on any
platform), responsive (resizes for different windows),
discoverable, and more. Here's a guide from Google on
building your first PWA
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Bryan ✻llendyke that set me off: "The way to create a
decentralized learning record store IS to create an lmsless
university via a PWA." Well yeah.
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Canada's Fundamental Science Review
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This report (280 page PDF) (if you don't have time to read
it have a machine read it for you
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in research and development and is known colloquially as
the Naylor Report. It doesn't cover internal Government of
Canada science (like, say, the National Research Council),
but rather, the money the government spends on research
outside the government (for example, as supported by the
funding councils). The key recommendation is found in the
introduction: "The cumulative base increase would move
annual spending in steady-state across the four agencies
and closely related entities from approximately $3.5
billion to $4.8 billion." And htis is a recommendation that
looks especially good to me: "The Government of Canada
should rapidly increase its investment in independent
investigator-led research to redress the imbalance caused
by differential investments favouring priority-driven
research over the past decade." More coverage: CBC
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Globe and Mail
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McLeans
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Ottawa Citizen
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Science Magazine
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Nature
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eLearning Roadtrip
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Good post from Ellen Wagner that is at once a history of
successive programs from EDUCAUSE and the Gates Foundation
on student advising and support services (variously the PAR
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iPASS and IPAS
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and at the same time a rumination on the concept of
'student success' itself. The software (and there are more
than 100 offerings now) is part help-desk and part
analytics, and is intended to help guide students to their
ultimate objectives. "We are going to wonder how we managed
to live without platforms that help visualize patterns,
red-flag student risks before they become problems," she
writes, but at the same time, the innovation here is not in
the creation of the tools, but in the use of them to
support students. Image: Ellen Wagner
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How India saved its internet from greedy corporations
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The headline is a little over the top but the article
describes a determined attempt on the part of a number of
companies to create a multi-tier internet where you have to
pay extra for things like messaging. Part of this, readers
may recall, was Facebook's attempt to create a proprietary
'internet lite'. As All Indian Backchod put it, "These
corporations tried to define Net Neutrality as everyone
being able to access some things on the internet. In fact,
Net Neutrality is about everyone being able to access
everything on the internet." Good read, good videos, bu
someone directly involved in the campaign.
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All I Know Is What’s on the Internet
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This is an excellent post responding to the idea that fake
news is recent, isolated, and easily fixed with media
literacy. In fact, fake news is just one part of "an entire
landscape of neglect and corruption" and those teaching
media literacy "are not necessarily in a position to
actually supply it." Instead, "colleges and libraries have
ceded control to content publishers, who impose their
hierarchical understanding of information on passive
consumers, leaving institutions to only exhibit and protect
the information."
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Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith’s publisher survival
guide in the duopoly era
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The 'duopoly' in question is Facebook and Google, and
arguably these two platforms have a firm hold on platform
traffic. This article points out that this is not a good
deal for publishers. Bloomber's Media CEO Justin Smith
Smith cited a recent study from Digital Content Next
showing "only 14 percent
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of some publishers’ revenues were coming from
distributed content." How, then do publishers succeed?
Quartz has a good model. "Quartz’s model from the
beginning has been to never accept a banner ad or an IAB
standard unit." Also, "If you’re producing content
that someone else is also producing, you have to stop right
away and rethink your approach. Create content that no one
else is producing."
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