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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Mar 14, 2017
Debate heats up over free higher education plan
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Japan is the latest country considering free higher
education. "Hakubun Shimomura, the LDP’s executive
acting secretary general, said at a press conference on
Friday that procuring funds for free higher education
warrants careful deliberation... A special task force was
created within the party on Feb. 15 to discuss the
financial aspects of free higher education." This
follows sharp growth
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in California's free college tuition programs. We're also
seeing more
http://higheredstrategy.com/the-free-tuition-impulse/ voices
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opposed to such plans on the grounds that free tuition only
benefits the rich. By that same logic, though, free health
care would only benefit the rich, because only the rich can
afford health care. Our experience with public health care
in Canada, though, proves that the opposite is the case.
The poor are the major beneficiaries.
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MéxicoX: Meet the MOOC Platform Funded by the Mexican
Government
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As Class Central reports, "MéxicoX
http://mexicox.gob.mx/" target="_blank, which has over one
million registered learners (is) a MOOC platform backed by
Mexican government... unded by Mexico’s Ministry of
Education, and it is managed by the General Directorate of
Educational Television (Dirección General de
Televisión Educativa from the Ministry of Education)
in coordination with the National Digital Strategy."
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JPMorgan Software Does in Seconds What Took Lawyers 360,000
Hours
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Knowledge workers take note: "The program, called COIN, for
Contract Intelligence, does the mind-numbing job of
interpreting commercial-loan agreements that, until the
project went online in June, consumed 360,000 hours of work
each year by lawyers and loan officers. The software
reviews documents in seconds, is less error-prone and never
asks for vacation."
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Analytics isn’t a thing
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By this headline Mike Sharkey doesn't mean that analytics
doesn't exist, nor does he mean it isn't something
important. Rather, he says, software is defined by the
problem it solves, and 'analytics' isn't a type of problem.
"Analytics isn’t a thing. Analytics help solve
problems like retention, student success, operational
efficiency, or engagement," he writes. He raises this point
because 'learning analytics' is dropped from this year's
NMC Horizon report
https://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2017-higher-education-edition/."
I wouldn’t say that analytics 'has arrived,' so I was
a little surprised that it wasn’t called out as a
specific trend," he said. It wouldn't be the first time a
trend simply disappeared in a Horizon report - analytics
also vanished in 2015 only to reappear a year later.
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The OA interviews: Philip Cohen, founder of SocArXiv
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Interview with hilip Cohen, founder of the new social
sciences preprint server SocArXiv
Link"Can the newly
reinvigorated preprint movement gain sufficient traction,
impetus, and focus to push the revolution the OA movement
began in a more desirable direction?" Interestng response:
Writing on the LSE blog
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last year he said, “I hope that SocArXiv will enable
us to save research from the journal system.”
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