- RT @griiettner: Design vs User Experience #html5 #css3 #uix http://t.co/Csb1p0DFsx 08:32:14, 2014-09-12
- RT @bjchapm: Hey @Kroger, it’s not OK to allow people to openly carry guns in your stores! #GroceriesNotGuns https://t.co/TebSX9j0Xj via @E… 08:33:13, 2014-09-12
- RT @julien51: Testing the webhook out of @davewiner's http://t.co/F2s4ZV5u3a 08:34:05, 2014-09-12
- RT @richards1000: http://t.co/P5lSTauM89 @vdavez : The New Codification Movement. #legaltech #opendata #opengovdata #freelaw 08:35:40, 2014-09-12
- My Twitter Digest for 09/11/2014 http://t.co/4y1tzSiezs 15:30:07, 2014-09-12
- Join me at 11th Annual Open Education Conference! 11/19-21/2014 https://t.co/ubM07PLWHa #opened14 | Powered by #RegOnline 17:02:23, 2014-09-12
- @NickMoline thanks, Nick. in reply to NickMoline 20:08:35, 2014-09-12
- RT @vdavez: @legalgeekery I dropped everything to build this tonight. https://t.co/pcSWJaR2Sk Game on! 23:45:46, 2014-09-12
My Twitter Digest for 09/11/2014
- @jaslawlib haven't found it. Haven't heard back from the Harvard folks either. I'll ping them again but it probably got lost somewhere. in reply to jaslawlib 15:02:04, 2014-09-11
- My Twitter Digest for 09/10/2014 http://t.co/3Gm5WIBCNb 15:30:07, 2014-09-11
- TechCrunch reminds us about what happened to that MOOC revolution http://t.co/SKJHaAmOcH 19:28:25, 2014-09-11
- RT @davewiner: On October 7, it will be exactly 20 years since I started blogging. http://t.co/xSpjl1FJEB 22:35:29, 2014-09-11
TechCrunch reminds us about what happened to that MOOC revolution
Three years ago this week, Sebastian Thrun recorded his Stanford class on Artificial Intelligence, released it online to a staggering 180,000 students, and started a “revolution in higher education.” Soon after, Coursera, Udacity and others promised free access to valuable content, supposedly delivering a disruptive solution that would solve massive student debt and a struggling economy. Since then, over 8 million students have enrolled in their courses.
This year, that revolution fizzled. Only half of those who signed up watched even one lecture, and only 4 percent stayed long enough to complete a course. Further, the audience for MOOCs already had college degrees so the promise of disrupting higher education failed to materialize. The MOOC providers argue that completion of free courses is the wrong measure of success, but even a controlled experiment run by San Jose State with paying students found the courses less effective than their old-school counterparts.
via The MOOC Revolution That Wasn’t | TechCrunch.
OK round up of where the MOOC thingy got to. Turns out that MOOCs where not the thing that disrupted higher education.
My Twitter Digest for 09/10/2014
- Code for America: What a $250 Million Project Means for You (if you live in Atlanta) http://t.co/bve4U44gi1 01:00:05, 2014-09-10
- Slow day at the ranch, trying to get over this cold or whatever the current dread disease is. Also… http://t.co/jz5h9GxUL9 11:46:16, 2014-09-10
- RT @Dan_Hauck: Auto-linking legal briefs? Yes, please. Of course, we’re already doing it @ThreadKM
- Do Law Schools Need The AALS? http://t.co/11BeyY1qdL 13:01:13, 2014-09-10
- Running your own Git server with GitlabHQ on Ubuntu 14.04 http://t.co/ZAh0hVi5fo 14:02:05, 2014-09-10
- My Twitter Digest for 09/09/2014 http://t.co/Y3hqf0phnC 15:30:18, 2014-09-10
- RT @sglassmeyer: Data on stimulus spending to disappear soon. Here’s why. http://t.co/6WbCq7ojxM // Gov't reliance on corp metadata screws … 16:35:34, 2014-09-10
- A free and open world depends on a free and open web. And a free and open web depends on me. http://t.co/DpyNAutn3e #freeandopen 16:38:34, 2014-09-10
- RT @johnpmayer: Another sighting of @caliorg CC images by Eric Molinsky – https://t.co/ePvHEkxGn0 – happy that our sharing is being used. 22:11:22, 2014-09-10
My Twitter Digest for 09/09/2014
- Legal Tech Learning Resources http://t.co/CMYFKpSTRv [good short list of resources, includes @caliorg] 09:54:31, 2014-09-09
- RT @benjedwards: IBM Linux Watch (2000) & IBM WatchPad 1.5 (2001) prototypes; first Linux watches; never made it to market http://t.co/OGoI… 10:26:54, 2014-09-09
- What Happened to the Information Removed From PACER? http://t.co/qjDJ6RvEkT via @UNCLawLibrary [reminder: legal info isn't free.] 11:42:56, 2014-09-09
- My Twitter Digest for 09/08/2014 http://t.co/OZGJVF4CUS 15:31:29, 2014-09-09
Running your own Git server with GitlabHQ on Ubuntu 14.04
This document describes how to install and configure Git and GitHub. These are great tools to manage and administer a whole host of Git repositories and the associated permissions. So, these remain true blessings for users writing open source software, however, when writing a closed source software may not be comfortable in trusting the code to a third party server. To gain the much-needed flexibility and control on stuff like Github/BitBucket without hosting the git repositories on servers that lie external to the control of users, GitLab remains a Godsend!
GitLab is a wonder tool that offers a simple and user-friendly yet potent web-based interface to the Git repositories on your server, viz., GitHub. Users are free to host it on their own cloud server, control access in a custom-built manner, and the only factor limiting the repo size is the inbuilt storage space of the server.
Just in case anyone has a hankering to run there own “GitHub” or build an open source software community for a particular space, like law or government.
Slow day at the ranch, trying to get over this cold or whatever the current dread disease is. Also a chance to try out some stuff on the old blog.
This is a status update, so I don’t need a title and it gets fed to various other places like Twitter and Facebook.
My Twitter Digest for 09/08/2014
- RT @opencontent: Early bird registration for #OpenEd14 ends THIS FRIDAY, Sept 12. Register now to save $150! http://t.co/AMdzQH1Dvc (Please… 15:23:19, 2014-09-08
- My Twitter Digest for 09/07/2014 http://t.co/FPyNiGweht 15:30:07, 2014-09-08
My Twitter Digest for 09/07/2014
- My Twitter Digest for 09/06/2014 http://t.co/d6AMHsNL7l 15:30:30, 2014-09-07
My Twitter Digest for 09/06/2014
- RT @sglassmeyer: According to this article that @emasters shared with me, the Internet could have been called the "Galactic Network." WE. … 13:55:45, 2014-09-06
- My Twitter Digest for 09/05/2014 http://t.co/d83pmeZWZz 15:30:09, 2014-09-06
- RT @mlissner: Wherein a contributor speeds up our tests by 10X in a single swoop. https://t.co/al9bTGEs3K 17:18:30, 2014-09-06