Words group updated with design , science, design science #designscience #mtw3 #mosocoop

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Since yesterday I have worked out where to place design science on the set of words from yesterday. This is only a start. They may move. Later there may be a proper definition of what "design science" is. Over the break I was thinking about the context and how other words fit together. The idea of "Hello Spiders" is to start with a cloud of words such as might be created by search data analysis. Then the search may find useful content.

Previously, from 2006

The actual news, continuing this year so far, is university interest in the MOOC. This could be a shift that allows other factors to shuffle in behind. The issues go back at least ten or fifteen years. I have been listening to Melvyn Bragg on the value of culture ; science is now very legit.

Design Science may be appearing as people in education get more used to statistics . It could be another way to link action learning and systems.

Also I have to accept ambiguity as YouTube search for Design Science finds design, science and a lot else.

By the way, Google has a new feature to offer research help as you prepare a slide for presentation. The "hello spiders" one though is assumed to relate to real spiders. I am offered links to info on the European Badger and pictures of elephants.

Hello Spiders 2013 #mtw3 #mosocoop

Hs2013

This is a start on a group of words or search terms that might fit together. More in later posts.

See previously for a model of innovation / disruption when a new approach starts with lower levels of quality in some respects when compared to established ones. The MOOC is currently in this sort of situation but may improve. "Blending" is a way to connect both a MOOC and Face to Face events or however else learning is supported other than online.

I have shown Speech and Technology as poles of Communication. Currently I'm working more with radio.

Quality Management is a way to work on improvement for the MOOC and also adding online aspects to existing education.

Later I will look at #tags which can be added and how actual search results compare.

#mosocoop is mostly promoted through the CQI website and LinkedIn etc. The F2F meetings are usually for planning.

#mtw3 continues online but a F2F is possible, maybe soon.

Paid Content report on Guardian and Audible, is this print? is this weekly?

There was news before the break but I am only just finding it.

So Amazon is a major advertising source for Guardian print. The podcast is on a weekly time scale.

Amazon offers content as print or sound or video.

I still think it possible that the Guardian may cease printed publication from Monday to Friday.

OU on the radar as an 800 pound gorilla #Futurelearn

My blog searching is not finding much new so far this year but this past from recently introduces the idea of "the 800 pound gorillas of US research universities (e.g.Harvard, MIT, Stanford and UC Berkeley)."
Then it looks at Futurelearn without any 800 pound gorillas and suggests the OU might be one, or at least part of a disruption.
Lloyd Armstrong is University Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Southern California.

I do notice that the MOOC based in the USA is likely to include universities from outside the USA. But so far Futurelearn is very UK.

More later. Getting ready for the Wild Show on Phonic FM in Exeter 10 -12. Mostly a music show but guests welcome, maybe comparing online courses and Soundcloud.

When will books show up as part of digital sales in UK?

The Bookseller has a similar story to a Guardian report on high sales of books

But the comments question how the various numbers fit together. Some of the extra sales may have been though supermarkets.

Meanwhile the BBC report increased digital sales for the year

e books are not much mentioned in this.

Based on looking in on Exeter John Lewis this morning I think the shift to tablets from e readers is continuing. They have e readers quite close to tablets but in a different section and there was nobody looking at them. Maybe one visit is not really a test but I think longer term it may matter more for book publishers to be seen as part of what is available on tablets etc.