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Knowledge Compression and Curation

In what is plausibly a new trend, there are two online services that say they can “compress knowledge”. Or words to that effect. In today’s world of way too much knowledge…it seems at times anyway…first rate curation could be extremely...

Putting “Learning” Back in Analytics

Four or five years ago now, adaptive learning based on real time analytics of user generated data related to thousands of other users… was a new idea. It was a new upgraded version of formative assessment and a new promise of learning enabled to give learners...

Librarian role in the future

“We’re the original search engines and we help people find things to make their lives better,” she said of librarians. Carla Hayden the new Librarian of Congress is interviewed here and describes the role of librarians in the future. Since my daughter and her husband...