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Manifesto on Media Education – Always room for another manifesto. – (dh new_media dl )
AAUP Sees MOOCs as Spawning New Threats to Professors’ Intellectual Property – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education – "If we lose the battle over intellectual property, it's over," Mr. Nelson warned. "Being a professor will no longer be a professional career or a professional identity," and faculty members will instead essentially find themselves working in "a service industry," he said. – (copyright mooc IP privatization )

bookmarks for May 28th, 2013 through June 5th, 2013

How I manage to keep active in so many networks – PhD candidate Cristina Costa on living in her PLN. – (dl dh academia2.0 ple fyw social_learning )
Your WYSIWYG Editor sucks – outlines the concerns of developers, which is a good insight into how and what they think. includes that pesky gender problem: the smes are gendered as women, getting a little too creative for the developers and either slow in learning or just plain obstinate. interesting how the typist is still gendered and the solutions to them is still administrative. – (webdesign sme gender cms )

Donald Clark Plan B: MOOCs: more action in 1 year than last 1000 years – This hype-fest by Clark has got to go on record. Textbook mythos of the self-knighted entrepreneur saving the world from the leviathan. Nice to see Clark himself acting the sophomore in his comments, too. Prisoner of his own cliches. – (hype )
The Discussion Forum is Dead; Long Live the Discussion Forum – – (dl de e-pedagogy discussions d2l )

en.Slow Media » The Slow Media Manifesto – Responsible, mindful, critical, distributed. Everything that runs in the face of consumer capitalism. Until Facebook can monetize it. Also indicative of the European Contingent. We're all looking for a network theory. – (dl dh internetcrit )
[Expletive Deleted] Ed-Tech #Edinnovation – Damn straight. Audrey Watters slaps the corporate wonks a good un. – (moocs cmoocs )

22 Thoughts on Automated Grading of Student Writing | Inside Higher Ed – I love it. The idea that teaching and evaluating written work can be done as a computer algorithm is a Â mind-saver. Why? Reading is boring. Automate now. I have videos to watch. My favorite thought is #7:” The only motivations for even experimenting, let alone embracing automated grading of student writing are business-related.” Â Can there be any better motivation? – (de xmooc assessment )
Blog Exercises: Increase Your Thank You Ratio Â« Lorelle on WordPress – No excuses. Say thank you. – (etiquette learning de en3177 )
Is Google Making Us Stupid? – Nicholas Carr – The Atlantic – – (DL CreavtiveCommons ) Sorry … Miles away … What was the question? Carr tries to address the question by over-interpreting neuroscience research. Plasticity does’t mean stoopidity.