{"id":2174,"date":"2012-05-19T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:48:16","slug":"where-ive-been-this-week-weekly-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/05\/19\/where-ive-been-this-week-weekly-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;ve Been This Week (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><h4>~ A record of places on the web I want to remember ~<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/snap.berkeley.edu\/snapsource\/snap.html\">Snap! Build Your Own Blocks. Alpha<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">programming language<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/snap\">snap<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/scratch\">scratch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universitas21.com\/news\/details\/61\/u21-rankings-of-national-higher-education-systems-2012\">News Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Overall, the top five countries, nominally providing the &#8216;best&#8217; higher education were found to be the United States, Sweden, Canada, Finland and Denmark. However, broken down into the smaller sections, it was interesting to see that the US, traditionally seen as a country with one of the strongest education systems, did not always hit the top spot. Government funding of higher education as a percentage of GDP is highest in Finland, Norway and Denmark. Taking private expenditure into account changed this significantly: on that measure funding is highest in the United States, South Korea, Canada and Chile, unsurprising, given the structure in these counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/details\">details<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/higher-ed\">higher-ed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/rankings\">rankings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningcafe.com.au\/2012\/04\/gartners-top-predictions-for-2012-and-its-impact-on-learning\">Gartner\u2019s top tech 2012 predictions: Impact on learning at 3 levels | Learning Cafe<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">The crux of the article is that IT budgets and responsibilities are moving out of the control of IT departments and into the hands of others, thanks to trends such as consumerization and cloud computing which is making centralised controlled of IT difficult. Users are taking more control of the devices they will use, business managers are taking more control of the budgets IT organizations. IT organization will need to co-ordinate those who have the money, those who deliver the services, those who secure the data, and those consumers who demand to set their own pace for use of IT. This decentralisation of control provides the learning function with opportunities to be a bit more responsive to e-learner needs which in the past may have been hampered by the rigid operational frameworks imposed by IT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/gartner\">gartner<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/tech\">tech<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/predictions\">predictions<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/impact\">impact<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/learning\">learning<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2012-05-09-tv-is-better-than-games\">Why TV is Better Than Games | GamesIndustry International<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Gamification is often described as &#8216;adding game-like elements to things that are not games&#8217;. That&#8217;s not really what it is at all. Those game-like elements aren&#8217;t anything to do with games, they are behavioural economics. Normal economics believes that people are rational and act in their own self interest, and then goes off on one from there. That is, sadly for economics, not true. Behavioural economics makes no such assumptions. It&#8217;s the study of what people actually do. The study of the world as it is, not the way we wish it were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/international\">international<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/gamification\">gamification<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-2174'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2174);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2174);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(2174);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>~ A record of places on the web I want to remember ~ &nbsp; Snap! Build Your Own Blocks. Alpha programming language tags: snap scratch News Details Overall, the top five countries, nominally providing the &#8216;best&#8217; higher education were found &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/05\/19\/where-ive-been-this-week-weekly-7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-z4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3882,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/06\/07\/where-ive-been-online-jun-7-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":2174,"position":0},"title":"Where I&#8217;ve Been Online (Jun 7, 2014)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Opinion: Equity and Excellence in Skills and Higher Education in Canada | Canada 2020 \"Canada has been a strong performer in post-secondary education and skills development for many years. 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