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Francobadges
Francobadges
Le RESDAC et l’ICÉA ont uni leurs expertises pour créer une plateforme numérique de badges pour les adultes francophones du Canada. Sur ce site, vous trouverez des informations sur les badges numériques et les moyens de participer à la consultation visant à améliorer le prototype de plateforme. Une plateforme de badges est un portfolio électronique où les adultes peuvent montrer des preuves de leurs compétences, en particulier celles qui ne sont pas reconnues par des diplômes. En mars 2024, nous avons dévoilé un prototype de plateforme numérique pour des badges destinés aux francophones du Canada. ------ RESDAC and ICÉA have combined their expertise to create a digital badge platform for French-speaking adults in Canada. On this site you will find information about digital badges and ways to participate in the consultation to improve the prototype platform. A badge platform is an electronic portfolio where adults can show evidence of their skills, especially those that are not recognized by degrees. In March 2024, we unveiled a prototype digital platform for badges intended for French speakers in Canada.
#badges#oegconnect
·francobadges.ca·
Francobadges
A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates - Audio Edition
A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates - Audio Edition
This is an audio version of the acclaimed book A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates. Although it was originally published in 1955, there has never been an audio version of it -- until today. Weighing in at 18 gigabytes of audio data, the book provides 455 hours (almost 19 days) of listening enjoyment. The print edition contains a series of random numbers and some guidance on how to use them. At the time it was published, generating random numbers was challenging so the book was fairly useful and noteworthy for mathematicians, scientists, etc. RAND used it for lots of things, probably including gaming out how a global nuclear war would work out. h/t https://muffin.industries/@colin/112435508474494331
#random#audio#smallweb
·muffinlabs.com·
A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates - Audio Edition
Tech & Business Fantasies of Education - by Dan Meyer
Tech & Business Fantasies of Education - by Dan Meyer
The ASU+GSV organizers invited a bunch of us there to give 20-minute talks on a stage that was adjacent to all the AI edtech vendors. Naturally, I thought the appropriate thing to do in that context was criticize AI edtech vendors, specifically criticizing them for selling an image of classroom teaching and student learning that is pure fantasy
#ai#ideas#teaching
·danmeyer.substack.com·
Tech & Business Fantasies of Education - by Dan Meyer
Square Meter Photography Project | The Prairie Ecologist
Square Meter Photography Project | The Prairie Ecologist
In January, 2018, I began a year-long project to photograph all the beauty and diversity I could find within a single square meter of prairie.  That tiny plot is located in a narrow strip of restored grassland at Lincoln Creek Prairie in Aurora, Nebraska.  The prairie was restored by Prairie Plains Resource Institute in the early 1980’s and contains a nice diversity of prairie plants. I was already knowledgeable and passionate about prairies before starting this project, but I was still deeply moved and inspired by what I found within a single square meter. Far from the drab patches of grass many people imagine them to be, prairies are vibrant and dynamic ecological communities, consisting of complex webs of interacting organisms. There is abundant beauty in prairies, and while you might have to look closely to see some aspects of it, you also don’t have to go far to find it. I hope this project helps inspire people to explore prairies near them, and to help ensure that prairie ecosystems remain diverse and healthy well into the future.
#art#observation#ecology#photography#prairie
·prairieecologist.com·
Square Meter Photography Project | The Prairie Ecologist
CHI2024 Papers Explorer
CHI2024 Papers Explorer
Explore the CHI 2024 papers using sentence-embeddings. Enter a query in and see the most relevant papers according to their title and abstract. In the scatterplot two papers should be closer together if they have similar contents. You can also drag on the chart to filter. The system works by computing sentence embeddings on the papers text, then applying dimensionality reduction on the embeddings to compute the scatterplot. You can even change the dimensionality reduction and embeddings algorithm and parameters. h/t https://www.downes.ca/post/76576
#conference#Visualization#llm#ai
·johnguerra.co·
CHI2024 Papers Explorer
Dog Cognition Lab
Dog Cognition Lab
Welcome to the virtual home of the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab! Our bricks-and-mortar home is Barnard College in New York City. There, we study the behavior and mind of the NYC dog (and any other dogs who want to stop by). Our primary interest is understanding, scientifically, the dog's experience: what it is like to be a dog. Our studies aim to get a handle on what dogs perceive and know by presenting them with puzzles, novel objects, and short games at the lab with their owners.
#dog
·dogcognition.weebly.com·
Dog Cognition Lab
Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
I’m a big proponent of LLMs as tools for personal productivity, and as software platforms for building interesting applications that can interact with human language. But I’m increasingly of the opinion that sharing unreviewed content that has been artificially generated with other people is rude. Slop is the ideal name for this anti-pattern. Not all promotional content is spam, and not all AI-generated content is slop. But if it’s mindlessly generated and thrust upon someone who didn’t ask for it, slop is the perfect term for it.
#ai#llm#content
·simonwillison.net·
Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
The prevalence of textbook affordability and OER initiatives at ARL libraries - ScienceDirect
The prevalence of textbook affordability and OER initiatives at ARL libraries - ScienceDirect
Textbook affordability programs and the promotion of OER are well-established priorities for many academic libraries, but few studies have examined the prevalence of such programs either in general or across institution types. This paper presents the results of a study designed to gather information about textbook affordability initiatives at university libraries that are members Association of Research Libraries. It uses information from the publicly available websites of ARL libraries in the United States to determine how many of those institutions maintain textbook affordability programs, with those figures further broken down by status (public/private) and membership in the Open Education Network. In addition, the findings reveal some notable characteristics of textbook affordability programs, including an overall lack of visibility on institutional websites, a marked variety in financial incentives, and evidence of programs that have been discontinued.
#opentextbook#oer#library
·sciencedirect.com·
The prevalence of textbook affordability and OER initiatives at ARL libraries - ScienceDirect
digiLLM
digiLLM
An Erasmus+ project about the inclusive potentials of digital learning materials and Open Educational Resources. This space is for us – teachers, students & researchers – to jointly discuss inclusivity & learning materials for school education. Elements include a Living Learning Materials resource library, a community portal for discussion and reflection on digital learning materials, a Framework for the Reflection on Living Learning Materials (FRoLLM), and a participatory research journal.
#OER#oegconnect
·digi-europe.org·
digiLLM
The Scroll Art Museum (SAM)
The Scroll Art Museum (SAM)
Scroll art lets beginner programmers turn loops and print() into animated ASCII art. Scroll art is a form of ASCII art where a program generates text output in a command line terminal. After the terminal window fills, it begins to scroll the text upwards and create an animated effect. The SAM is an online collection of several scroll art examples. The constraints of scroll art form a garden for creativity. Scroll art is an idea that isn't dependent on modern computers. All of the scroll art at the SAM could be recreated on 1970s and 1980s personal computers.
#smallweb#animation#aasci#art
·scrollart.org·
The Scroll Art Museum (SAM)
Fedi.Garden
Fedi.Garden
Fedi.Garden is a small human-curated list of nice, well run servers on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. All of them have opted-in and promised to obey specific standards of reliability and responsible moderation. Don’t worry if you can’t make up your mind! Whichever server you choose, you can follow people from other servers and they can follow you. Also, if you change your mind, you can always move to another server later ⧉ without losing your followers.
#fediverse#mastodon
·fedi.garden·
Fedi.Garden
Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a decentralized social network bridge. It connects the fediverse, the web, and soon Bluesky/AT Protocol and Nostr. If you're on one of these networks, you can use Bridgy Fed to follow people on other networks, see their posts, and reply and like and repost them. Likewise, they'll be able to see you and your posts too.
#fediverse#syndication
·fed.brid.gy·
Bridgy Fed
Labyrinth Layout
Labyrinth Layout
The knowledge of how to draw a “classical” labyrinth, and how to transfer that skill to the construction of a full size labyrinth on the ground, has been passed from one generation to another for thousands of years. Here’s the foolproof method for drawing the classical labyrinth and creating a labyrinth of your own.
·labyrinthos.net·
Labyrinth Layout
The Curious Educator’s Guide to AI
The Curious Educator’s Guide to AI
Strategies and Exercises for Meaningful Use in Higher Ed (one more for the pile) This guide is designed to help educators and researchers better understand the evolving role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education. This openly-licensed resource contains strategies and exercises to help foster an understanding of AI’s potential benefits and challenges. We start with a foundational approach, providing you with prompts on aligning AI with your curiosities and goals. The middle section of this guide encourages you to explore AI tools and offers some insights into potential applications in teaching and research. Along with exposure to the tools, we’ll discuss when and how to effectively build AI into your practice. The final section of this guide includes strategies for evaluating and reflecting on your use of AI. Throughout, we aim to promote use that is effective, responsible, and aligned with your educational objectives. We hope this resource will be a helpful guide in making informed and strategic decisions about using AI-powered tools to enhance teaching and learning and research. An open textbook published by eCampusOntario, includes good use of H5P
#oer#ai#h5p#oegconnect
·ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub·
The Curious Educator’s Guide to AI
CAIELI | University of Calgary Library
CAIELI | University of Calgary Library
CAIELI is a collaboration between Libraries & Cultural Resources and Werklund School of Education. This transdisciplinary student-focused initiative aims to encourage effective and ethical use of AI on campus. CAIELI is a collaboration between Libraries & Cultural Resources and Werklund School of Education. This transdisciplinary student-focused initiative aims to encourage effective and ethical use of AI on campus. The Centre’s innovative programs harness the power of AI to personalize learning and empower students to excel. We aim to cultivate strong digital and information literacy skills that will pave the way for academic success across disciplines. Libraries co-leading the way!
#ai#library#oegconnect
·library.ucalgary.ca·
CAIELI | University of Calgary Library
NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning)
NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning)
NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning), is a joint venture of the IITs and IISc, funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE) Government of India, and was launched in 2003. Initially started as a project to take quality education to all corners of the country, NPTEL now offers close to 600+ courses for certification every semester in about 22 disciplines. Some highlights: Largest online repository in the world of courses in engineering, basic sciences and selected humanities and management subjects YouTube channel for NPTEL – most subscribed educational channel, 1.3 billion views and 40+ lakhs subscribers More than 56000 hours of video content, transcribed and subtitled Most accessed library of peer-reviewed educational content in the world * Translation of more than 12000 hrs of English transcripts in regional Indian languages NPTEL began offering open online courses in March 2014. It is now possible for ANYONE outside the IIT System to be able to do an online certification course from NPTEL and get a certificate from the IITs. IITs are reaching out and taking education to the homes of people through this initiative. Courses and content are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license
#openeducation#mooc#oegconnect
·nptel.ac.in·
NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning)
36. “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us” – Tales from the Vault: 40 Years / 40 Stories
36. “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us” – Tales from the Vault: 40 Years / 40 Stories
Walt Kelly’s funny animal comic strip Pogo provided a surprising, but effective, setting for his incisive political satire. During the War of 1812, the United States Navy defeated the British Navy in the Battle of Lake Erie. Master Commandant Oliver Perry wrote to Major General William Henry Harrison, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” Kelly’s parody of this famous battle report perfectly summarizes mankind’s tendency to create our own problems. In this case, we have only ourselves to blame for the pollution and destruction of our environment.
#art#satire
·library.osu.edu·
36. “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us” – Tales from the Vault: 40 Years / 40 Stories
(No) Hope for the future? A design agenda for rewidening and rewilding higher education with utopian imagination | International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | Full Text
(No) Hope for the future? A design agenda for rewidening and rewilding higher education with utopian imagination | International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | Full Text
This article argues for exploring, connecting, and applying utopian imagination, speculative design, and planetary thinking as a way forward for higher education to reimagine and move towards more hopeful planetary futures. It examines hopepunk and solarpunk perspectives on possible futures to propose a design agenda for rewidening and rewilding higher education and educational technology with utopian imagination. Firstly, the article outlines and develops a framework for wider and wilder futures in higher education, emerging from utopian thinking and desire. Secondly, it connects hopepunk with speculative design and solarpunk with planetary design to highlight and put forward rebellious strategies of hope in envisioning more preferable futures. Thirdly, it approaches the field of educational technology within the context of wide and wild education to establish four planetary orientations concerning educational technology: Higher Education for, in, with, and by the world. Taken together, the article proposes a design agenda for educational technology that integrates utopian imagination and solarpunk practices with planetary educational technology to catalyse the development of more preferable futures in a more-than-human world.
#education#future#hope
·educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com·
(No) Hope for the future? A design agenda for rewidening and rewilding higher education with utopian imagination | International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | Full Text
The Open Source AI Definition - HackMD
The Open Source AI Definition - HackMD
An Open Source AI is an AI system made available under terms that grant the freedoms to: Use the system for any purpose and without having to ask for permission. Study how the system works and inspect its components. Modify the system for any purpose, including to change its output. Share the system for others to use with or without modifications, for any purpose. * Precondition to exercise these freedoms is to have access to the preferred form to make modifications to the system. h/t https://openedtech.social/@martin/112371371602037907
#opensource#ai#oegconnect
·hackmd.io·
The Open Source AI Definition - HackMD
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web. A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They're less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we're used to seeing.
#indieweb#blogs#blogging#ideas#smallweb
·maggieappleton.com·
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!
Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!
When you share a link on Mastodon, a link preview is generated for it, right? With Mastodon being a federated platform (a part of the Fediverse), the request to generate a link preview is not generated by just one Mastodon instance. There are many instances connected to it who also initiate requests for the content almost immediately. And, this "fediverse effect" increases the load on the website's server in a big way. Sure, some websites may not get overwhelmed with the requests, but Mastodon does generate numerous hits, increasing the load on the server. Especially, if the link reaches a profile with more followers (and a broader network of instances).
#mastodon#fediverse
·news.itsfoss.com·
Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!
Infinite Mac
Infinite Mac
Infinite Mac is a collection of classic Macintosh and NeXT system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a (modern) web browser. Pick any version of System Software/Mac OS or NeXTStep/OPENSTEP from the 1980s or 1990s and run it (and major software of that era) within a virtual machine. You can also run a custom version with your choice of machine and virtual disks. Files can be imported and exported using drag and drop, and System 7 and onward have more advanced integrations as well – refer to the welcome screen in each machine for more details.
#apple#history#mac#emulator
·infinitemac.org·
Infinite Mac
Ollama: Get up and running with Llama 2, Mistral, and other large language models on MacOS | by CA Amit Singh | Free or Open Source software’s | Medium
Ollama: Get up and running with Llama 2, Mistral, and other large language models on MacOS | by CA Amit Singh | Free or Open Source software’s | Medium
Learn to Install Ollama and run large language models (Llama 2, Mistral, Dolphin Phi, Phi-2, Neural Chat, Starling, Code Llama, Llama 2 70B, Orca Mini, Vicuna, LLaVA.
#ai
·medium.com·
Ollama: Get up and running with Llama 2, Mistral, and other large language models on MacOS | by CA Amit Singh | Free or Open Source software’s | Medium
What is the Small Web? – Aral Balkan
What is the Small Web? – Aral Balkan
On the Small Web, you own your own home. The Small Web, quite simply, is the polar opposite of the Big Web. It applies the Small Technology principles to the web. The Small Web is Your Web The Small Web is for people (not startups, enterprises, or governments). It is also made by people and small, independent organisations (not startups, enterprises, or governments2). On the Small Web, you (and only you) own and control your own home (or homes). The Small Web is the Single Tenant Web Small Web applications and sites are single tenant. That means that one server hosts one application that serves just one person: you. On the Small Web, we do not have the concept of “users”. When we refer to people, we call them people.
#indieweb#internet#smallweb
·ar.al·
What is the Small Web? – Aral Balkan
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week, or SV-POW! for short, was first conceived as a sort of joke response to the excellent Astronomy Picture of the Day. But before long, it became apparent to us that SV-POW! had legs of its own, and that there really was an almost infinite amount of material we could cover. We originally intended each post to be super-short, basically just an image and a caption, but that’s not at all how it’s turned out. SV-POW! is now effectively an online publication with (at the time of writing) seventeen years of open-access scholarly and journalistic content, along with the more frivolous entries. It is published by Michael P. Taylor in the United Kingdom.
#smallweb#dinosaurs#Science#openaccess
·svpow.com·
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
FL AI Consortium
FL AI Consortium
FALCON is an informal group founded in 2024 to connect higher-education faculty and staff interested in the intersection of artificial intelligence and higher education. It has no membership fees and anyone can join. "The Consortium is dedicated to advancing the understanding and application of generative AI in higher education. Our mission is to foster ethical, responsible, and innovative use of AI through interdisciplinary collaboration, faculty development, and the exploration of AI's role across various academic disciplines. We aim to serve as a nexus for thought leadership, resource sharing, and policy development, ensuring academic integrity and enhancing the educational experience in the age of AI. Our commitment extends to preparing educators and institutions to adapt to and positively influence the evolving landscape of AI in education."
#ai#education
·sites.google.com·
FL AI Consortium