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Presence and Integrity in Online Learning
Mary Grush, Campus Technology, 2024/02/12

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So what does Gardner Campbell mean when he talks about integrity in online learning? "Learning is not simply information delivery. It's not just a transaction. It shouldn't be 'Okay, I'm here; load me up.' Instead, as a student and class member, you are building your own capacity to learn and engaging with others so they also build their capacities to learn. We used to call this 'learning how to learn,' but I think it's even bigger than that. And the integrity of the learning moment is how, through the presence of the class — all present with each other — every student may build on their own capacity to learn." It's hard for me not to say that this isn't just rebranding 'presence' as 'integrity'. But I have no doubt of Campbell's authenticity here.

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We need to talk about digital ownership
Molly White, Citation Needed, 2024/02/12

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As Dan Gillmor says, this is a "terrifically nuanced piece" on the subject of ownership of data and digital media. It doesn't propose any solutions of offer any manifestos, but it is for the most part a wonderfully clear map of the territory (the one criticism I have is that it elides discussion of 'sharing', as opposed to 'selling', either treating sharing as 'selling for zero dollars' or omitting sharing as a practice altogether). The main point stands: "when you see a marketing pitch or proposed legislation that promises you "ownership" of digital content or data... push back."

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Understanding Data Praxis+Politics
Caroline Kühn H., et al., 2024/02/12

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The project that funded this web page lasted from 2018-2022. The content is still relevant today in 2024, but the site is showing its age, with the pages loading slowly and the lessons generating WordPress errors. It's a symptom of one of the problems with project-funded learning resources; there's only a narrow window of usability and the community around it - if there ever was one - has disappeared (I refer not to the wider GO_GN community, but discussion and interaction specifically around this topic). I know all this costs money, and that people move on to newer projects, and that I'm no better than anyone else in this regard, but there has to be a better way, because as I said, the content is relevant today, and it should be actually in use by the wider community. See also: HDI-Network projects. Also, Matthew Chalmers, who should blog more.

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The fading of the 'lone wolf' tradition of studying the public service
Jonathan Malloy, Policy Options, 2024/02/12

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"Traditional elite relationships with researchers are falling away, but the public service doesn't know any other way to work with outsiders," argues Jonathan Malloy. "To get sufficiently inside in the first place, academics have needed to build relationships that established trust and gave them the necessary access." All this is fading. "Yet, the Canadian public service often doesn't seem to know what else to do with academics beyond the one-way 'expert' model." Perhaps Malloy is unaware, but there is a method. Everything he describes has moved online. GCcollab, for example, is "open to all Canadian public servants (federal, provincial, territorial and municipal), academics and students, as well as to all Canadians by invitation." Online, you'll find things like the Public Servant in Residence initiative, which allows them to spend up to  years at a Canadian university. Or the Deputy Minister champions initiative. And much more.

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