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Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity.
‘You are your driver’s license, your credit card, your health care card, your building access card’
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George Siemens
Important read. Air travellers in USA have seen “Clear” kiosks. But, they’re expanding. Full digital identity. With marketing aspirations “At its core, Clear monetizes trust.”
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Grounded airline planes turned into pop-up restaurants sell out in 30 minutes
As revenues plunge during the pandemic.
'You’re being watched and recorded, every breath': Students unsettled by exam software
Turn on your webcam, enable your microphone and share your computer screen, an anonymous voice told Emily Johnston as she sat her first online exam.
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George Siemens
We're doing education wrong. "Then the voice commanded: "Show me around your room". Ms Johnston walked the computer around her bedroom, showing the stranger her bookshelves and where she sleeps. Any notes spotted on the walls had to come down."
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Microsoft saw 2 years of digital transformation happen in 2 months: Nadella
The company on Wednesday beat Wall Street sales and profit expectations
Online education company Coursera offers unemployed workers thousands of free courses
Unemployed workers are gaining free access to 3,800 courses created by elite universities and companies such as Amazon to learn skills and gain professional certificates for new job opportunities.
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George Siemens
"Coursera has added 10 million users in the past month as online education has surged"
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The $7B Global OPM and Academic PPP Market – HolonIQ
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George Siemens
"Universities have formed 924 Public-Private Partnerships (PPP's) over the last 20 years to stand-up new and innovative academic programs. This landscape of 100+ private players compete in a now $7B, and by 2025 $15B global market." Covid will accelerate
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The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life
The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus – but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions
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George Siemens
“The US response will be studied for generations as a textbook example of a disastrous, failed effort...What’s happened in Washington has been a fiasco of incredible proportions.”
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13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
More fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.
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George Siemens
"Don’t just resist cynicism — fight it actively...it is inherently uncreative, unconstructive, and spiritually corrosive". Part of 13 lovely learnings from @brainpicker
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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George Siemens
“The Chicago-based company has experimented with ways to make the surveillance fun”
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Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself
“In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
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George Siemens
Solitude is exquisite. and @brainpicker's reflections this week are lovely "a kind of rerooting in one’s deepest self-knowledge, a relearning of how to simply be oneself, one’s most authentic self."
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Creating Online Learning Experiences – Simple Book Publishing
The goal of this book is to provide an updated look at many of the issues that comprise the online learning experience creation process. As online learning evolves, the lines and distinctions between the various classifications of courses has...
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She Quit Her Job. He Got Night Goggles. They Searched 57 Days for Their Dog.
A couple combed a rural Montana community for their Border collie, Katie.
AltSchool's out: Zuckerberg-backed startup that tried to rethink education calls it quits
A San Francisco startup that tried to reinvent school is handing off operations of its schools and turning into a software company.
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George Siemens
Innovating social systems is hard. Even more so when you ignore the culture and the research.
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PSA: Wearing AirPods during sex will get you an earful | Cult of Mac
Wearing AirPods during sex is apparently on the rise. One survey suggests it might be a healthy compromise for mood music.
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George Siemens
I would assume that there are some arousal and performance dampening effects of airpods. I would also be wrong. "17 percent said they wore AirPods during sex."
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ASU spin-off is latest arrival in $20 billion corporate tuition benefits space | Inside Higher Ed
ASU's InStride is latest entrant to the $20 billion tuition benefits market, a potential growth area as employers mull alternatives to the traditional college degree and whether to pay for customized online credentials for their workers.
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George Siemens
This is important, here's why: When demographics leveled off, universities turned to international students for sustained growth. International students are now leveling off (even declining). Non-traditional students are the new growth market
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Google Groups
Google Groups allows you to create and participate in online forums and email-based groups with a rich experience for community conversations.
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George Siemens
Invitation: Human and Artificial Cognition reading group. I learn best through dialogue and arguing and rage. I've set up a reading group to discuss important articles in human and artificial cognition. Please join if interested.
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Coursera Announces Two MOOC-Based Degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder | IBL News
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George Siemens
Universities that didn't dive into the MOOC craze are screwed. They're almost a decade behind in transitioning to large scale digital learning. MOOCs are about capacity building to meet new learning needs.
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U. of California System Cancels Elsevier Subscriptions, Calling Move a Win for Open Access
The announcement followed months of contract negotiations over the cost of the publisher’s journals. “I fully support our faculty, staff, and students in breaking down paywalls that hinder the sharing of groundbreaking research,” th
The Future of the Public Mission of Universities
Keynote for “Making Knowledge Public,” the 2018 President’s Dream Colloquium at Simon Fraser University [Read out loud and projected] A note about accessibility: if you would like…
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George Siemens
Take time to savor this excellent piece by @actualham on public-private impact on universities
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College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025 - The Hechinger Report
What does the declining birthrate mean for colleges and universities and the students who hope to get a college degree a decade from now? The answer depends on where you live in the United States and how selective the college is. For most colleges...
George Siemens
15% decline, mainly due to people not having enough sex. Or more accurately, babies (which are God's creation for screaming on planes and incubating viruses)
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