We are now less than two weeks away from our MOOCs and Emerging Educational Models: Policy, Practice, and Learning conference. Registration is still open. The conference will showcase successful grantees from the MOOC Research Initiative, as well as numerous panels addressing challenges around planning, designing, and running MOOCs. The full schedule is now available MORE

Social Media Policy Storytelling Strategy TipsRecently, my social media feeds have been anxiety producing, if not downright depressing. The parade of bad news: gun violence, hurricanes, earthquakes, nuclear war, fake news, and more. MORE

As an advocate of design participation in nontraditional design areas, I was glad to hear about (but bummed I didn’t attend) the Glen Cove Conference on Strategic Design and Public Policy (my former professor, Richard Buchanan, apparently participated). If you’re interested in the role of design in public policy, take a look through the conference writeup by Lucy Kimbell. Tags: Interaction Design Service Design public policy strategy MORE

The session will focus on exploring how nonprofits are expanding their efforts to influence public policy through social channels and understanding the legal issues and how to evaluate the work. (I’ll That’s why it is good to have an going relationship and a policy group. MORE

Clinton policy page home page. Clinton Tech and Innovation policy. Trump policy home page. Trump’s Tech and Innovation policy. I did a Google search on “site:donaldjtrump.com technology” and likewise for innovation and couldn’t find a tech policy on his site, although he does support the GOP platform which mentions innovation: https://action.donaldjtrump.com/issue/economy/canonical/. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/. MORE

“Information freedom&# is not just good policy, but it’s a universal value and good for business. First, my overall reaction to Hillary Clinton’s speech: It’s thrilling that a Secretary of State would claim “freedom to connect&# as a basic human right. That’s a very bit stake in the ground. Likewise, it’s sort of amazing that the State Department is funding the development of tools to help users circumvent government restrictions on access. MORE

The second responds to the question: “what policies and practices worked for countries that have done well?&# , and the answer to that is: there is good evidence to support the proposition that a family of policies called “open access,&# that encourage competition, played an important role. The Berkman Center’s study of broadband around the world finds pretty clear correlation between successful broadband access and openness. MORE

The (slightly) surprising truth about family-friendly workplaces Do family-friendly policies like childcare subsidies and job sharing increase productivity and profits? It has had this policy for quite sometime. Comment Policy: First time comments are moderated. Dan Pink. MORE

privacy+policy : 3,400,000,000 results. “privacy policy&# : 837,000,000 results. So if you’re looking for something about privacy that’s not a site with a privacy policy, you’re also looking at a high haystack/needle ratio. Business Research Strange stuff Technology VRM problems policy privacy privacy policy searchSearches: privacy : 1,390,000,000. MORE

There were 2o people in the dining party, and AppleBee’s policy is to add the 18% tip automatically to any parties over 6. The bill was divided up and Alois Bell wrote on her receipt, “I give God 10% why do you get 18%?” MORE

Paul Brigner, Executive Director of Internet and Technology Policy at Verizon, says what he would tell the Broadband Strategy Initiative: Build on our this country’s current success providing access to the Internet. Do no harm (= beware of Net Neutrality). And question the research that shows that America has fallen behind other countries in the ubiquity, price, and speed of broadband. More at Broadband Strategy Week MORE

note: I attended Secretary Clintons speech on internet freedom on Thursday the 21st, which I thought was a good combination of principle, policy, and illustrative stories. Stripped of its context (and with my apologies to the speech writers), my read of the speech is that the success or failure of our internet freedom policy will come down to our ability to live up to the principles outlined below. Clay Shirky. « A Rant About Women. MORE

Communities of practice: Linking knowledge, policy and practice – is a paper that Simon Hearn from the Overseas Development Institute and I have been puttering on for quite some months. Communities of Practice: linking knowledge, policy and practice PDF. MORE

There’s a good explainer by Eva Galperin of Twitter’s new policy on censoring tweets within countries that demand it, At BoingBoing, Xeni Jardin points to one particularly relevant fact: this applies to countries whwere Twitter is establishing physical offices MORE

My way of testing and tracking the difference in the stated policy positions of the parties would work like this: you take a standard public expression of party positions (election manifestos?) and sample policy statements (size of sample to be decided, somewhere between individual sentences and paragraphs). My psychophysics approach tests directly the ability of voters to discriminate between stated policy positions. MORE

The new infrastructure of the 21st century will gain political consensus. But did that consensus begin this week with Paul Ryan's new Medicare plan that includes saving the traditional federal plan? Health insurance, Medicare, trains, unions, taxes - - all are being fought over by politicians. But they will all be agreed upon by both Democrats and Republicans over the next decade or so. MORE

stevenberlinjohnson.com « | Main | » Theres a great letter to the editor in the Times today that asks a question that hadnt occurred to me before: what exactly is the Secret Services policy on hunting? I mean, they go to the most extraordinary measures to protect the life of the President and Vice President, but they still let Cheney roam out into the woods with a bunch of senior citizens armed with loaded weapons? MORE

We ( SoLAR ) are organizing an online symposium on Policy and Strategy for Learning Analytics Deployment. During these activities, it has become clear that policy and strategy considerations are hindering the adoption and deployment of LA. MORE

Love this! RT @CMLoNigro : @HelenClarkUNDP now taking questions on #post2015 – use #2030Now in your tweets! pic.twitter.com/W25OihgjEz #WEF. Caleb Tiller (@CMTiller) January 14, 2014. MORE

Until recently, college-bound students with learning difficulties faced a huge obstacle qualifying for accommodations for the SAT (much better for the ACT - so we generally recommended students choose that test over the SAT, all other issues being equal). MORE

Janet on 05 May 2008 at 4:04 pm What is the policy for working with children online where you are? Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Mar 14 2008 A post for parents and educators about the internet Published by Nancy White at 6:32 am under learning , online interaction , social media As some of you know, I’ve adopted the edublogging community as a collective mentor. MORE

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Win or lose, have the policies of Bernie Sanders won already? . But many of the socialist policies won. 100 years ago the socialist Eugene Debs ran for president, and of course never won. Some things socialists supported back then: 1.Free City parks 2.Free public schools 3.40 Hour Work Week 4.8 Hour Work Day 5.Elimination of child labor. We have them all today. Most all of us like them. And it's hard to see society going back. MORE

There is a lot of nonsense in so called evidence based policy but it will be be countered by libertarian (my judgement) nonsense in response. Looking at one piece of evidence based policy. Minimum alcohol pricing is considered as a perfect example of evidence based policy. MORE

John Foster describes human resources at IDEO during the Future of Talent Retreat at Asilomar. MORE

Billy Barnes explains what’s really going on with Wikipedia’s new process for editing the biographies of living people. What the media reported: In response to vandalism of bios, Wikipedia is not allowing any edits to bios of living people to be posted before they have been reviewed by trusted editors. Implication: Wikipedia has failed at its mission of completely open, ungoverned editing [which of course isn't Wikipedia's mission].). MORE

The report is organized into three main sections: Section I described the key research trends influencing AI’s future; Section II examined the key economic sectors that are most likely to be impacted by AI; and Section III looked into issues surrounding AI and public policy. MORE

Yet for some reason many of us see personal privacy as a grace of policy. It’s like, “The answer is policy. Both call for policy. Also, to be clear, my argument here is not against policy, but for tech development. MORE

Apps Cloud Priorities Leadership IT Policies Software Servers Networking IT Priorities Enterprise Software Emerging Tech Data Management Data Centers Consumerization Cloud Big Data Innovation It''s no longer fashionable to criticize enterprise IT as it once was. That''s because the Internet has definitively won the competition and is leading the way in tech innovation. But for proactive organizations, it doesn''t have to be that way. MORE

But our real concern should be about deals substituting for policy. Policies result from decision-making processes by an institution that does not directly benefit or suffer from the outcome; those who do are supposed to recuse themselves. Policies are the same for all concerned. ” Policies aim at predictability. Because policies apply more broadly, they are not predicated on individual weaknesses, although the tactics used for achieving policy objectives might. MORE

Hillary Clinton’s tech policy is progressive. Her policy brief , however, is long and detailed. So I decided to try to reduce the policy down to a more manageable scale, starting with a bumpersticker and working my way up. The post Clinton's tech policy in five tweets appeared first on Joho the Blog MORE

Even as the FCC is holding hearings about the value of an open Internet , Secretary Hillary Clinton is preparing a “ major policy address on Internet Freedom &# to be delivered on Jan. Maybe her statement will provide some framing the FCC could use — it’d be awkward if our international Internet policy were more progressive than our domestic policy…not to mention Google’s international policy. MORE

I've posted before a list of Corporate Policies on Web 2.0 Corporate Access that shows that a significant number of corporate policies are to shut down access to the tools. There's a very interesting set of questions in the post Happy New Year! AND do you have opinions about social media governance? This is by an IBM employee, Jen Okimoto, who works in the domain of Web 2.0 and is asking about a very important issue. MORE

Because his 74% plus wins with Gen Y in the primaries means that Gen Y embraces the progressive policies that Sanders embraces. . Hard to know whether Sanders embraces Gen Y policies or Gen Y embraces Sanders' policies. . But they all will know the Sanders' policies and Gen Y agenda of 2016. Even the so-called liberal media spend far time on Trump than on Bernie Sanders. . But the big story of the year is Bernie Sanders. . MORE

Or, do we also need social policies to promote job creation and assist workers who’ve lost their jobs? One of the Foreign Affairs articles, - The Next Safety Net: Social Policy for a Digital Age by Nicolas Colin and Bruno Palier , - offers some answers to these questions. “As MORE

I remember the day when IBM was first facing that very same issue , on whether to put together a social computing policy and guidelines or not. which explains quite nicely their own social media policy that they are using: Fun stuff, eh? MORE

Last week I was part of a panel on the SkyBusiness Technology Behind Business program discussing corporate social media policies, comprised of Peter Williams of Deloitte, Adrienne Unkovitch of Workplace Guardian, and myself. Social media policy is not different from HR or other policies. MORE

One of the hottest ideas in education policy these days is tying teacher pay to student performance on standardized tests. It was fed by a policy that had nothing to do with education. Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan. Speaking Engagements. Video. Articles. MORE

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So what’s your social media policy? In fact, such a policy really is part of your personal knowledge mastery. It’s not something you should do lightly, or haphazardly, it seems to me. While your systems may vary, your results should be sources for you to find information, present yourself in your various communities, and to share your thoughts. Let’s do this by platform. Facebook, is for me, the place I be me. Clark Quinn, not Quinnovation. MORE

Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government. Citizen Digital Engagement in Policy Discussions and Action. MORE

use of Web 2.0 / social media for work and learning) is that organizations often have not established their policies or guidelines around the use of these tools. Companies need a policy. I think IBM's policy is a pretty good starting point: IBM Social Computing Guidelines Other company policies or discussions of guidelines I've seen around blogging, social media, web 2.0: Is it worth our time to try to push for getting a policy established MORE

Karim Lakhani of Harvard Business School (and a Berkman associate, and a member of the Harvard Institute for Quantititative Social Science ) is giving a talk called “How disclosure policies impact search in open innovation, atopic he has researched with Kevin Boudreau of the London Business School. MORE