The Sheila MacNeill Daily

opencontent.org - Jim Groom briefly but insightfully runs the numbers on the Georgia Tech / Udacity deal: Apart from all sorts of misgivings about Georgia Tech’s MOOCish Master’s program in Computer Science, I want ...

mashable.com - The Internet is massive — more than 634 million websites host more than 30 trillion pages — so we all need some help cutting through to the good stuff. Many of us turn to social media sites, where ...

guardian.co.uk - Whenever I think of those iconoclasts at Google, changing the very essence of business one totally awesome logo doodle at a time, I remember a New York Times article about a Waldorf school that fea...

readwrite.com - Since at least the 1990s, when personal computers first became commonplace, public policy experts have worried the ill effects of a Digital Divide. That is, a learning, socialization and economic g...

guardian.co.uk - During a recent appearance on BBC's Question Time, Michael Gove, the secretary of state for education, extolled the importance of encouraging creativity in schools. He's right. Creativity is essent...

mashable.com - A term called gamification has taken UX by storm over the past few years, a trend likely spurred by Foursquare's success with badges. Whether they understand it or not, app designers desire to crea...

timeshighereducation.co.uk - Cookie policy: This site uses cookies to simplify and improve your usage and experience of this website. Cookies are small text files stored on the device you are using to access this website. For ...

guardian.co.uk - The writer and journalist takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer

vanityfair.com - If there was a moment when our crisis in education reached a critical mass, it may well have been the date Sir Ken Robinson’s ted talk “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” went up on YouTube. In just 19 m...

boingboing.net - OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1 billion, and has threatened him with prison time over posts ...

guardian.co.uk - The number of supersize primary schools – some of which have more than 1,000 pupils – has soared by 60% in three years, triggering a fierce debate among educationists about whether tens of thousand...

guardian.co.uk - What's the most dystopic future you can imagine resulting from Google Glass? That facial recognition technology will allow a Glass-wearer to walk past you and instantly know who you are and what yo...

boingboing.net - Here's a clip from an upcoming documentary on the enormous gap between the food described by Zachary is a fourth grader at a large New York City public elementary school. Each day he reads the Depa...

blog.visual.ly - PBS digital studios recently released a short video on data visualization. It does a great job of explaining what visualization is, and touches on the origins of our capacity to process visual info...

timeshighereducation.co.uk - Students dissatisfied with contact hours, QAA overseas provision review shows. Jack Grove writes “Fly-in, fly-out” academics are a source of frustration for Chinese students taking UK degrees in th...

eventbrite.com - When it comes to surveys and data collection, SurveyMonkey is the undisputed market leader. They built their position with a focus on simplicity, analytics, and delighting the customer (Hey – that ...

scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com - "Instead of providing fertile ground for brilliant and lively conversation, discussion forums are allowed to go to seed. They become over-cultivated factory farms, in which nothing unexpected or or...

sansch.wordpress.com - Is there a need for teachers and lecturers with solid knowledge about technology enhanced learning (TEL)? Are open courses for many (MOOCs) a good opportunity, especially if regular offers are rare...

timeshighereducation.co.uk - UK universities must form business partnerships to demonstrate the need for public investment. By Elizabeth Gibney Universities that are looking for more capital funding need to present clearer cas...

timeshighereducation.co.uk - Universities minister David Willetts has defended the student finance system against criticisms that it is unsustainable and will not bring in the amount of money required to fund the sector long t...

boingboing.net - Star Trek star and noted homosexual George Takei responds to bigots who believe in restricting the right to love to straight people only: an image gallery on Imgur. Oh, snap, oh glorious snap. Boin...

youtube.com - The video highlights the work which has began at the Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy to develop 'Learner Led Design'. The presentation draws links (alot of links) to Professor Stephen H...

rebelmouse.com - Pricing • Help • Blog • FAQ Privacy Policy • Terms of Service © 2013 RebelMouse Learn About Overfishing With This Interactive Web Aquarium on.mash.to/14eagpI Wi-Fi Network Breaks Speed Record on.ma...

on.aol.com - Creative Director, entrepreneur, philanthropist, writer, actress, mother… Born and raised in Los Angeles and having always been surrounded by music and costumes, Nicole developed an appreciation fo...

socialmediaweek.org - Today, Crowdcentric, the organization behind SMW globally, are partnering with crowdfunder to open the CROWDFUNDxNYC Challenge and invite you submit your business. The challenge is open to small bu...

jeffhurtblog.com - Recent research shows that conference organizers should focus their conference education efforts more on learning design and less on delivery of information. Too often, conference organizers and me...

salon.com - In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named “Qworty” made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded Sou...

davecormier.pressbooks.com - Rhizomatic Learning posits, among other things, that the community is the curriculum. That the being able to participate with and among those people who are resident in a particular field is a prim...

jobs.guardian.co.uk - Prospero Teaching are looking for a qualified English Teacher to start a long term teaching position in September 2013. The ideal Candidate will be able to teach English Language and Literature to ...

venturebeat.com - Google tricked out its entire I/O conference with hundreds of sensors this week. Today, we got a glimpse at some of the data and the work that went into making it happen. Michael Manoochehri, with ...

today.com - Ah, romance. Boy meets girl. Boy dates girl. Boy dumps girl. Girl embarks on a campaign of online harassment that lands her a prison sentence. Girl flees country. Lee David Clayworth, 35, met Lee C...

timeshighereducation.co.uk - The Quality Assurance Agency is to issue new guidance on student workloads after research found that English undergraduates study for only three-quarters of the hours it recommends. A report by the...

cogdogblog.com - I kind of forgot how funky, cool, and outgoing a town is Flagstaff. After settling in at the Monte Vista Hotel, downing some custom brewed coffee, i walked towards the sound fo drums, and found thi...

blogs.kqed.org - It’s a common refrain that there aren’t enough women in jobs that require math and science skills like engineering and computer science. Though more programs are cropping up geared towards girls in...

timeshighereducation.co.uk - Flagship study-abroad scheme may have failed to attract desired numbers. Donna Bowater reports When Brazil unveiled its new study-abroad scheme in 2011, it was described as a pioneering plan to imp...

socialmediatoday.com - While we’re all unique in one way or another, Carl Jung developed the personality types that the Myers Briggs was later designed to accurately evaluate. People are classified as extraverts or intro...

socialsciencespace.com - SAGE is committed to supporting the core work that has been central to our identity as a publisher. Alongside our partners, including the Academy of Social Sciences, we continue to champion social ...

boingboing.net - All this month, we've been telling you about a fantastic challenge from the Encyclopedia of Life. Called Armchair Taxonomist, it's an opportunity to research and write about different plants, anima...

joshhonn.tumblr.com - Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows I routinely rage against LibraryJournal (LJ), a magazine I was auto-subscribed to a few years ago while working toward my MLIS and to which I have yet to figu...

radar.oreilly.com - The big data world is a confusing place. We’re no longer in a market dominated mostly by relational databases, and the alternatives have multiplied in a baby boom of diversity. These child prodigie...

opentech.org.uk - The bar will remain open until 10pm or people stop drinking; whichever happens first. Thomas Stewart will be coordinating a PGP keysigning session in the bar at lunchtime. Slides and references are...

stucbetterway.blogspot.com - Friday, 10 May 2013 Scottish Government Banking Strategy: some early thoughts Earlier today, the Scottish Government published ‘Sustainable, Responsible Banking: a strategy for Scotland’ the purpos...

timeshighereducation.co.uk - “It’s Mooc or die”, a university vice-chancellor has said, claiming that institutions must embrace the massive open online course movement and adapt their teaching methods or face a tough future. A...

blogs.computerworlduk.com - Glyn Moody's look at all levels of the enterprise open source stack. The blog will look at the organisations that are embracing open source, old and new alike (start-ups welcome), and the communiti...

smartdatacollective.com - Tom Davenport and D.J. Patil argued in their Harvard Business Review article that being a data scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century. Data scientists help companies turn their data (big ...

engageforeducation.org - I was delighted to address the follow up national literacy event to the very successful one we held last April and talk about my commitment to raising literacy standards for all as a key element of...

suifaijohnmak.wordpress.com - I have often come across instructional designers and institutions grappling with best practice, in instructional and curriculum design. A research on instructional design indicates the various “bes...

unglue.it - But if lots of ungluers wishlist this book, maybe there will be! But if lots of ungluers wishlist this book, maybe there will be! The young Dostoevsky: (1846 - 1849) ; a critical study But if lots ...

bbc.co.uk - The education secretary is like a "fanatical personal trainer" who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers' leader is to say. Bernadette Hunter, president of the NAHT, will say...

nplusonemag.com - Because I share your vision of creating a world in which all have access to an excellent and empowering education, I would like to propose a new online course for you to make freely available throu...