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HtmlCleaner 2.10 released

Scott Wilson — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 14:18:17 +0000

Get it here!

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HtmlCleaner 2.9

Scott Wilson — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:32:51 +0000

I’ve finally released version 2.9 of HtmlCleaner!

This month I also had to answer my first ever official support request for HtmlCleaner in my “day job” – it appears a researcher at the University of Oxford is using it as part of a project analysing legislation passed by the State Duma of the Russian Federation :)

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Reflection on the “Open Education – a New World Order” session

Li Yuan — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:43:27 +0000

At the Cetis conference 2014, Stephen and I facilitated a session on “Open Education and MOOCs”. We began with two very interesting presentations from Audrey Watters, a freelance journalist, and Amy Woodgate from The University of Edinburgh. They offered two different perspectives: MOOCs as teaching machines vs MOOCs as teaching experiments.

Audrey shared some insights on how the ideas and principles developed by the founder of Udacity, Sebastian Thrun, and used to build Google’s self-driving car have been applied to MOOCs to make teaching and learning scalable and standardized. Audrey argued that with AI (artificial intelligence) mind-sets, MOOCs have been developed as teaching machines that use students’ data as the new oil that drives learners to automated education!,

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Cetis14 Day2

christina — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:56:35 +0000

A few tweets from the second day of the Cetis conference in Storify. I’ve added a couple of additional tweets at the end with were no longer available on Storify. Every year I say never again – but the feedback has been so positive from cetis14, that we’re planning Cetis 2015 in Bolton next June. […]

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#cetis14 day1 storify

christina — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:20:38 +0000

The Cetis Conference is over for another year. Being the conference organiser means I don’t get to focus on one session for long. I’ve captured my favourite tweets in a storify, I hope they give an impression of the event. [View the story "Cetis14 Day 1 - storify" on Storify]

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