Starred in Pocket:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/04/15/california-community-college-fall-enrollment-plunges

The California Community College system had a 12 percent enrollment decline from fall 2019 to fall 2020, a staggering figure for the largest college system in the country and a likely harbinger of the demographic and fiscal challenges that lie ahead for the sector nationally.

California community college fall enrollment plunges

Enrollment at California Community Colleges fell even more than an already shocking national average last fall. Campus leaders hope to stem further declines as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

www.insidehighered.com

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https://blog.starburstdata.com/data-mesh-the-answer-to-the-data-warehouse-hypocrisy

Note: I start this piece with some technical background that has nothing to do with the data mesh, and is only relevant to data warehousing insofar as it explains how the parallel database systems that often underlie data warehousing solutions usually work.

Data Mesh: The Answer to the Data Warehouse Hypocrisy

There is one rule, pretty much the only rule, that determines success in scaling data systems: avoid coordination whenever possible.

blog.starburstdata.com

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https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/learning-innovation/9-reasons-why-campus-online-learning-teams-should-be-permanently-remote

In conversations with colleagues across higher ed who are leading campus online learning teams, I commonly hear about the following challenges: Post-COVID, online learning is snowballing – and we need to build up our internal institutional capacities if we are going to meet this demand.

9 Reasons Why Campus Online Learning Teams Should Be Permanently Remote | Learning Innovation

Planning for the post-pandemic university.

www.insidehighered.com

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/business/job-training-work.html

Bill Barber saw an ad on Facebook last year for American Diesel Training Centers, a school in Ohio that prepares people for careers as diesel mechanics. It came with an unusual pitch: He would pay for the schooling only if it landed him a job, thanks to a nonprofit called Social Finance.

Job Training That’s Free Until You’re Hired Is a Blueprint for Biden

Social Finance, a nonprofit, is spreading a model in which training programs get paid if students get hired, not just if they enroll.

www.nytimes.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://blog.jonudell.net/2008/03/04/ward-cunninghams-visible-workings/

In Portland last week I visited with Ward Cunningham, whose pragmatic and humane approach to the art of software informs everything he touches: the Wiki, object-oriented, agile, and test-driven programming, the framework for integrated test. (InfoWorld stuff about Ward here, here, and here.

Ward Cunningham’s implementation of Brian Marick’s “Visible Workings”

In Portland last week I visited with Ward Cunningham, whose pragmatic and humane approach to the art of software informs everything he touches: the Wiki, object-oriented, agile, and test-driven pro…

Jon Udell

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https://antonz.org/sqlite-is-not-a-toy-database/

Whether you are a developer, data analyst, QA engineer, DevOps person, or product manager – SQLite is a perfect tool for you. Here is why. The console is a killer SQLite feature for data analysis: more powerful than Excel and more simple than pandas.

SQLite is not a toy database

Here is why SQLite is a perfect tool for you - whether you are a developer, data analyst, or geek.

Anton Zhiyanov

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https://learninginnovation.duke.edu/blog/2021/04/academic-innovation-at-the-foot-of-the-cathedral/

The pandemic year clouds my memories of “before times” on campus but I still clearly recall the awe and inspiration I felt on arriving at Duke on February 8, 2017.

Academic Innovation at the Foot of the Cathedral - Duke Learning Innovation

Matthew Rascoff, our outgoing Associate Vice Provost for Digital Education and Innovation, reflects on four years at Learning Innovation and Duke. The pandemic year clouds my memories of “before times” ...

Duke Learning Innovation

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https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/learning-innovation/reading-ihe%E2%80%99s-2021-survey-presidents-online-learning-eyes

Have you downloaded and read through Inside Higher Ed’s 2021 Survey of College and University Presidents yet? Totally worth your time.

Reading IHE’s 2021 Survey of Presidents with Online Learning Eyes | Learning Innovation

Digital learning on the brain.

www.insidehighered.com

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https://transcend.substack.com/p/challenger-universities-transcend

Hello! Alberto here. Welcome to the Transcend Newsletter. The Transcend Newsletter explores the intersection of the future of education and the future work, and the founders building it around the world.

Challenger Universities 🎓 Transcend Newsletter #39

New university models to include 200 million new students this decade.

transcend.substack.com

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https://orbit.love/blog/slack-vs-discord-vs-discourse/

“What platform should I use for my startup’s community? Should I move from Slack to Discourse? Wait…there’s a Discourse and a Discord?” Now is a great time to build a community online, and there’s no shortage of really great tools to help.

Orbit Blog — Slack vs Discord vs Discourse: The best tool for your community

An in-depth comparison of 3 top community platforms across dozens of factors.

Orbit

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https://edstrategy.org/resource/accelerating-recovery-through-credentials-rapid-response-toolkit/

In order to equitably recover from the pandemic and economic crisis, decision makers must plan for and execute on strategic actions to quickly support displaced workers, as learners, in obtaining the skills needed to transition into careers of the new economy.

Accelerating Recovery through Credentials: Rapid Response Toolkit - Education Strategy Group

The massive disruptions caused by COVID-19 have left millions out of work and disproportionately impacted women, people of color, and those with lower levels of education. As people displaced from their jobs by the pandemic look to get back to work, many will return to higher education to gain new skills and credentials. But are...

Education Strategy Group

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https://blog.google/products/chrome/live-caption-chrome/

Captions make online content more accessible.

Chrome can now caption audio and video

Live Caption on Chrome lets you caption media with audio on your browser in real time.

Google

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/ernestezeugo/2021/03/15/one-way-to-speed-up-economic-recovery-focus-on-adult-higher-education/

When the Covid-19 pandemic ripped through the American economy last March, millions of people found themselves out of work.

One Way To Speed Up Economic Recovery? Focus On Adult Higher Education

Prioritizing adult education can help accelerate economic recovery post-pandemic.

Forbes

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https://alexdanco.com/2021/03/10/pipe-it-platforms-funding-and-the-future/

What a year it’s been. Last February, before joining Shopify, I wrote a post called Debt is Coming that provoked a great discussion around how fixed income is finally going to challenge the all-equity fundraising model in software startups.

Pipe It! Platforms, Funding, and the Future

What a year it’s been. Last February, before joining Shopify, I wrote a post called Debt is Coming that provoked a great discussion around how fixed income is finally going to challenge the all-equ…

alexdanco.com

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https://orbit.love/blog/a-tactical-guide-to-kickstarting-your-community/

Based on countless chats with other founders and community leaders, I’ve realized folks have tons of questions about the early days of a community — how to bootstrap early conversations, ways to connect members to each other, and generally go from zero to one.

Orbit Blog — A tactical guide to kickstarting your community

An inside look at how we built the Orbit community from zero to one.

Orbit

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https://tonywan.medium.com/from-a-newsletter-to-newsroom-and-now-onto-something-new-e543cd5fca57

It all started with a newsletter 10 years ago. Unable to sleep one night, I picked up the phone, checked my email and saw an opening in Issue 25 of the EdSurge newsletter for a part-time editorial assistant. I pecked out a few thoughts with my thumbs and eventually dozed off.

From a Newsletter to Newsroom, and Now Onto Something New

It all started with a newsletter, 10 years and 501 issues ago.

Medium

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https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/10-years-of-open-source-visualization

10 Years of Open-Source Visualization

Did I learn anything from D3.js? Let’s see… In honor of D3 1.0’s tin anniversary, I thought I’d reflect on lessons learned. This isn’t intended to be too comprehensive or serious — just a handful of observations as I look ahead to the next ten years. But I hope a nugget or two will interest…

observablehq.com

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlcx8yl6hlPC3QjlbIHzxGqCP3qRa0zcg

What will education become, especially under the impact of technology? The Future Trends Forum is a weekly videoconference discussion exploring this vital to…

Future Trends Forum

What will education become, especially under the impact of technology? The Future Trends Forum is a weekly videoconference discussion exploring this vital to...

YouTube

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https://www.jff.org/what-we-do/impact-stories/jfflabs/new-executives-residence/

Selected from a diverse group of entrepreneurs and industry leaders, the current cohort of executives will each focus on high-profile issues related to the use of data to improve equity in education and workforce outcomes, incubating programs that can either be launched within JFF or spunoff and led

New Executives in Residence Program for Education and Future of Work Pioneers | JFF

JFFLabs EIRs will explore the use of data to promote a more equitable and inclusive economic recovery.

www.jff.org

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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/adding-http-security-headers-using-lambdaedge-and-amazon-cloudfront/

Whenever you navigate to a website, your browser requests a web page, and the server responds with the content along with HTTP headers.

Adding HTTP Security Headers Using Lambda@Edge and Amazon CloudFront | Amazon Web Services

Adding security response headers is often achievable by modifications to your application configuration. In this blog we will focus on how to achieve the same result when you have an application that can’t be modified at the origin (e.g., a web site hosted in Amazon S3).

Amazon Web Services

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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/02/24/2u-partnership-guild-education-aims-bolster-offerings-working-adults

Employees at companies such as Walmart, Chipotle and Lowe’s may soon have access to discounted online degrees through a new partnership between 2U Inc. and Guild Education, two companies that have previously focused on different niches within the postsecondary education market.

2U partnership with Guild Education aims to bolster offerings for working adults

New deal gives 2U access to more companies' employees who are seeking training. Guild gets a broader slate of program offerings and 2U partner universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/02/19/progressives-should-focus-more-work-study-and-other-earn-while-you-learn-models

When I was the same age my kids are now, I was a giant Carl Sagan fan. Cosmos had begun airing on PBS, and for my birthday there was just one thing I wanted: a $50 donation to the Buffalo PBS affiliate.

Progressives should focus more on work-study and other earn-while-you-learn models (opinion)

Programs like Federal Work-Study and apprenticeships get short shrift, but they could help millions of people get educated and trained, Ryan Craig argues.

www.insidehighered.com

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https://maggieappleton.com/transcopyright-dreams

In 1965, Ted Nelson imagined a system of interactive, extendable text where words would be freed from the constraints of paper documents. This hypertext would make documents linkable.

Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

Maggie Appleton is an art director and anthropological designer. This is her digital garden for growing visual explanations about technology, culture, and programming

maggieappleton.com

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-attention.html

Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation. Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large.

Opinion | Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole

Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.

www.nytimes.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://rethink-ed.medium.com/rethink-educations-investment-theses-2021-edition-487e28267c52

Preamble: 268 billion will be spent on education technology globally this year. We are living through a watershed moment where the adoption of online learning has radically accelerated, and this mass shift in teaching & learning has exposed the deficiencies in current technology platforms.

Rethink Education’s Investment Theses, 2021 Edition

Matt Greenfield, Managing Partner

Medium

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https://www.businessinsider.com/hybrid-work-models-could-hurt-remote-workers-zillow-ceo-warns-2021-2

Throughout the pandemic, the buzzy phrase in corporate America has been “hybrid model” — as in, a new way of working that involves both remote work and coming into a physical office a few days per week or month.

Zillow's CEO is warning that the future of work could create a 'two-class system' where those who come into the office are viewed as better employees

Many Silicon Valley companies are planning on a hybrid model of work. But some CEOs are arguing that it could have hidden downsides.

Business Insider

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https://aboutlearning.substack.com/p/can-a-school-have-product-market

This “Scaling a School” series is a topic I will return to intermittently in the newsletter. The goal is to expose some of the tensions involved when scaling a school & explore how different institutions resolve them.

Can a School Have Product-Market Fit?

Scaling a School pt. 1 (~1,500 words)

aboutlearning.substack.com

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https://zeynep.substack.com/p/lessons-from-a-pandemic-anniversary

I’m now having “pandemic anniversaries”—anniversaries of tweets written a year ago. Reflecting on these anniversaries also offers a chance to talk a little bit about metaepistemology: the theory of theory of knowledge.

Lessons from A Pandemic Anniversary

It's not just what we know, but how we know it

zeynep.substack.com

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https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/nuclino-a-lightweight-real-time-wiki-built-on-top-of-prosemirror/146

Hey there, over the past few months me and my team have been working on Nuclino, a lightweight real-time wiki for teams.

Nuclino - A lightweight real-time wiki built on top of ProseMirror

Hey there, over the past few months me and my team have been working on Nuclino, a lightweight real-time wiki for teams. The whole editor experience is built on top of ProseMirror, which is why I’m happy to share it here! It’s still a preview release, but we’ve been testing it with a few teams…

discuss.ProseMirror

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http://www.datalegreya.com/?lang=en

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Datalegreya

www.datalegreya.com

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https://boundless.substack.com/p/stripes-perfect-career-page-126

Greetings from Taipei. It’s day 9 of our quarantine here in Taiwan. We were lucky enough to stay in Angie’s parents apartment so we’ve been able to walk in and out of different rooms to keep us occupied.

Stripe Has The Only Good Careers Page On The Internet | #126

Okay maybe Costco too

boundless.substack.com

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https://exhibits.stanford.edu/dataviz/

An exhibition that examines the 19th-century roots of information graphics.

Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination

An exhibition that examines the 19th-century roots of information graphics.

Spotlight at Stanford

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https://chris.beams.io/posts/running-cloudron/

Self-hosting sucks. It’s high-skill and high-maintenance to a degree that most non-professionals would never consider it. And most pros are too busy to bother. Still, self-hosting is critical if we’re going to escape today’s digital feudalism.

Running Cloudron

Self-hosting has always been a pain in the ass. What if it wasn't?

Chris Beams

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https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/federal-it-tech-workforce-job-descriptions-biden.html

This article is part of the Future Agenda, a series from Future Tense in which experts suggest specific, forward-looking actions the new Biden administration should implement. On Wednesday, Feb.

The Biden Administration Needs to Revamp the Federal Tech Workforce

Only about 3 percent of federal IT workers are under 30.

Slate Magazine

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/94647622587

UnivAPI is focused on addressing current issues and best practices experienced in building out conceptual models and collecting examples of real-life use cases. Attendees include IT architects, educational technologists, faculty, and software engineers from many universities.

2021 University API Winter Workshop

An Open Space unConference Focused on University & Personal API's & Their Use in Improving Learning ~ Hosted by Brigham Young University

Eventbrite

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https://obsidian.md/

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. The human brain is non-linear: we jump from idea to idea, all the time. Your second brain should work the same.

Obsidian: A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files.

Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files.

obsidian.md

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https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S1479-362820210000014011/full/html

© 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited

Measurement of Student Learning Outcomes – Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute: A Case Study | Emerald Insight

Measurement of Student Learning Outcomes – Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute: A Case Study - Author: Robin Goldberg, Vicki Chandler

www.emerald.com

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https://twemex.app/

As a researcher, I love using Twitter as a memex: a tool for thinking and making connections between related ideas. I’ve used it to find so many fascinating people, thoughts, and discussions. But using Twitter this way has always felt like fighting the natural design of the tool.

Twemex - Sidebar for Twitter

Twemex is a browser extension for Twitter that guides you effortlessly to the best content.

Twemex - Sidebar for Twitter

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https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/code-creative-medium

An essential guide for teaching and learning computational art and design: exercises, assignments, interviews, and more than 170 illustrations of creative work.

Code as Creative Medium

An essential guide for teaching and learning computational art and design: exercises, assignments, interviews, and more than 170 illustrations of creative work. This book is an essential resource for arts educators and practitioners who want to explore code as a creative medium, and serves as a guide for computer scientists transitioning from STEM to STEAM…

The MIT Press

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https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/report

This publication is the final report of the bipartisan Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship. It includes 31 recommendations to strengthen America’s institutions and civic culture to help a nation in crisis emerge with a more resilient democracy.

Our Common Purpose

This publication is the final report of the bipartisan Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship. It includes 31 recommendations to strengthen America’s institutions and civic culture to help a nation in crisis emerge with a more resilient democracy.

American Academy of Arts & Sciences

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https://bavatuesdays.com/oerxdomains-the-wonder-twins-of-edtech-conferences/

It’s been such a crazy month and a half that I have yet to announce some exciting news: the Domains conference will be happening in 2021. What’s more, it will be a joint event alongside the good folks that run my favorite annual conference OER. It’s been framed as OERxDomains, and I like that.

OERxDomains: the Wonder Twins of EdTech Conferences | bavatuesdays

bavatuesdays.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.profgalloway.com/stupid

Stupid | No Mercy / No Malice

8-min read On my podcast last week, public health expert Dr. Abdul El-Sayed highlighted that while v...

No Mercy / No Malice | Professor Scott Galloway

Starred in Pocket:
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/so-what-about-that-self-coup

By any reasonable definition, this is no longer a peaceful transition of power. Not only did the person who lost the election refused to concede, he falsely claimed until the very end that he had won in a landslide.

So What About That (Self)-Coup?

Countering the counter

zeynep.substack.com

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https://eliterate.us/good-vs-great-product-teams/

Allowing teams to do their work is the hard part. Michael and I do a fair bit of work on topics like product-market fit and validating clients’ product and market strategies. We recently completed work with a company that I would characterize as a good exemplar of a “great” product team.

Good vs. Great Product Teams

e-Literate

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https://psyche.co/ideas/talking-out-loud-to-yourself-is-a-technology-for-thinking

This week, a woman was strolling in my street, walking in circles and speaking out loud to herself. People were looking at her awkwardly, but she didn’t particularly mind, and continued walking vigorously and speaking. Yes, that woman was me.

Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking | Psyche Ideas

Talking out loud to oneself is a technology for thinking that allows us to clarify and sharpen our approach to a problem

Psyche

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https://stratechery.com/2020/zero-trust-information/

Yesterday Google ordered its entire North American staff to work from home as part of an effort to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that leads to COVID-19.

Zero Trust Information

Zero Trust Networking is security with Internet assumptions; there is tremendous value if we apply the same approach to information.

Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/15/library-json/

There’s been a lot of discussion around a “better” GoodReads and at some point almost every side-project-slinger has tried their hand at building a “books website”. Myself included. There is a large graveyard of these books sites.

Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads

Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.

tomcritchlow.com

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http://interconnected.org/home/2020/04/16/rss_for_books

Tom Critchlow is having smart ideas about websites that share lists of books, and an open, decentralised way to do it. So this blog post is a response to his ideas and gets a bit technical. Whenever I’m thinking about new systems, I like to keep in mind what I’d like to enable.

Re: Tom Critchlow’s proposal for a decentralised Goodreads-like system, how about using RSS?

Posted on Thursday 16 Apr 2020. 1,245 words, 18 links. By Matt Webb.

Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb

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https://hyperlink.academy/

Hyperlink is a platform for creating and participating in community-driven online courses. Each course is a template for a learning experience. It can be run repeatedly, in independent cohorts. Want to learn more? Check out our manual. Join to create a course, learn something new — or both!

hyperlink.academy

a course platform and online school built for seriously effective learning

hyperlink.academy

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https://athenaeum.antilibrari.es/

Topic Replies Created What books from childhood have stuck with you the most? Books 13 March 16, 2019 Introduce yourself, antilibrarian friends! Meta 7 April 1, 2019 Developing a reading strategy Reading 3 April 1, 2019 What’s the most obscure / weird book you’ve ever read? General 6 March 16, 2

Antilibraries Athenaeum

A place for talking books, libraries, reading, and learning.

Antilibraries Athenaeum

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https://www.antilibrari.es/

Please browse the antilibrary below. Reload the page to see a random selection or click to browse the entire collection. Want to share selections from your own antilibrary? Please send me a note — I’d love to talk, perhaps even feature them on this site.

Antilibraries

Catalogues and catacombs of books unread.

Antilibraries

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https://octoverse.github.com/

Over the past year, 10M new developers joined the GitHub community, contributing to 44M+ repositories across every continent on earth. Behind the world’s code is a global and growing team of contributors, and 80% of them are contributing from outside the US.

The State of the Octoverse

The State of the Octoverse explores a year of change with new deep dives into developer productivity, security, and how we build communities on GitHub.

The State of the Octoverse

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https://medium.com/scrimba/how-to-make-code-lectures-interactive-f57b47338753

Our newest playground feature at Scrimba aims at making coding lectures more fun and engaging. In essence, it enables teachers to live stream code to the entire classroom. Students can then fork the code and experiment with it on their own.

Service Unavailable – Medium

medium.com

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https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/build-personal-moats

Like company moats, your personal moat should be a competitive advantage specific to you that’s not only durable, but compounds over time. Tyler Cowen: He specialized as a generalist, spending decades writing & reading all day. To recreate his encyclopedic brain would take 1-2 decades of deep work.

Build Personal Moats

My favorite career advice

eriktorenberg.substack.com

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https://githubuniverse.com/Poetic-Computation/

We can’t wait to see you! You’ve added GitHub Universe 2020 to your calendar. Now, spread the word. Share on social and include #githubuniverseblastoff #githubuniverse to be automatically entered to win a limited edition swag box.

Poetic Computation

In this talk, Zach Lieberman will focus on his artistic practice, his decade-long work with collaborators, investigations into augmented reality, and new tools for drawing and interactive play. He will also explore community building and educational work, introducing projects like openFrameworks and the School for Poetic Computation, an experimental school he helped co-found. Other topics…

GitHub Universe · Virtual 2020 · Dec 8 - 10, 2020

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https://shapingedu.asu.edu/wintergames

Submit Your Activity Idea! Calling all smart skiing instructors, student medalists, digital path-charters, and learner success coaches, and tech trainers! Help co-create the Winter Games by submitting your idea for breakout sessions and hackathons.

Winter Games 2021 | ShapingEDU

shapingedu.asu.edu

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https://asunow.asu.edu/20201204-solutions-calbright-president-details-importance-flexible-skills-based-lifelong-learning

Transforming postsecondary education to reach those who most need it can be a disruptive and threatening process, but the pandemic has highlighted the extreme need for such change, according to the president of a new kind of community college.

Calbright president details importance of flexible, skills-based lifelong learning

Ajita Talwalker Menon is president and CEO of Calbright College, an online community college that opened in October 2019 for California residents. She spoke to the ASU community on Dec. 3 as part of the Frank Rhodes Lecture Series.

ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact

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https://calmatters.org/commentary/my-turn/2020/12/why-president-elect-biden-should-nominate-eloy-ortiz-oakley-to-lead-the-education-department/

The California Community College chancellor has led ambitious reforms and helped significantly improve transfer rates to the four-year universities. Max Lubin is the CEO of Rise, a student advocacy organization, Max@RiseFree.org. He is a former Obama administration appointee to the U.S.

Commentary: Why President-elect Biden should nominate Eloy Ortiz Oakley to lead the Education Department

The California Community College chancellor has led ambitious reforms and helped improve transfer rates to the four-year universities.

CalMatters

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https://www.economicmodeling.com/2020/11/17/skills-interoperable-learner-records/

The Learning and Employment Record (LER) is an important, emerging concept that connects to a broad array of issues spanning technology and data governance to public policy and private sector hiring practices. Much could be said and there are many players involved.

Using Skills to Build Interoperable Learning Records - Emsi

Learning and Employment Records (LER's) - what they are, why they matter, and how skills data can help higher ed make them a reality.

Emsi

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https://loopteam.co/2020/12/01/introducing-loop-team/

At my last company, Tempo AI, I had an HQ in the Bay Area and a partially distributed team across some of the US and in other countries like Argentina and India. After our acquisition by Salesforce, and after I had left, I would periodically check in with my former remote teammates.

Introducing Loop Team | Loop Team

loopteam.co

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https://jon.bo/posts/digital-tools/

My digital life in a nutshell: I discover relevant content I don’t have time to consume, I find time and become overwhelmed with my scattered backlog, I wish the content were in a different format, and then I’m unable to find something again once I’ve consumed it.

Digital Tools I Wish Existed

My digital life in a nutshell: I discover relevant content I don’t have time to consume, I find time and become overwhelmed with my scattered backlog, I wish the content were in a different format, and then I’m unable to find something again once I’ve consumed it. Not retaining enough is a valid problem but…

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