Move to impose 10-year sentence seen as attempt to silence talk of corruption before election
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The anti-fake news bill, which must be approved by parliament, calls for penalising those who create, offer, circulate, print or publish fake news – or publications containing fake news – with a 10-year jail term, a fine of up to 500,000 ringgit (£90,000) or both.
The bill defines fake news as “any news, information, data and reports which is, or are, wholly or partly false whether in the form of features, visuals or audio recordings or in any other form capable of suggesting words or ideas”.
It covers all media and extends to foreigners outside Malaysia if Malaysia or its citizens are affected.
https://www.insidehighered.com/system/files/media/2018_Presidents_Survey_Final.pdf
Presidents believe the business models for elite private colleges, elite private liberal arts colleges and public
flagship universities are viable over the next 10 years. They are less likely to think the business model for
community colleges is viable, and relatively few think for-profit institutions and other private nonprofit
institutions have viable business models.
• Nearly all presidents believe that additional colleges will merge or close this year, with 30 percent predicting that
between one and five colleges will close, 40 percent between 6 and 10, and 29 percent more than 10.
• Thirteen percent of presidents say they could see their own college closing or merging in the next five years.
That is higher than the 9 percent of chief business officers who answered that way in an Inside Higher Ed survey
last summer.
Are you leading or managing? Are you being led or managed? Which do you prefer?
Joe Keshmiri | Mar 20, 2018
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-leading-managing-being-led-manged-which-do-prefer-joe-keshmiri
LEADERSHIP IS…
the process of influencing others to understand and agree what needs to be done and how it can be done effectively, and
the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish the shared objectives
LEADERS ARE…
People who carry out these processes
or, people in positions of authority in societies/organizations
Yukl 2010
The Difference between Leaders and Managers:
- Both personalities were thought to produce a different sense of self that would guide conduct and attitudes.
- Managers are seen as regulators and perpetuators of the existing institutions, identifying with them.
- Leaders were viewed as individuals who did not depend on membership for identity, working for an organization but never belonging to them.
- This distinction offered a theoretical basis for understanding why leaders seek opportunities for change
(Mintzberg, and Kotter, et al 1998)
- Leader seek change and innovation
- Leaders do not depend on others or institutions for identity
- Leaders work for the organization but do not belong to them
- Managers and leaders are different
- Leaders are active, not reactive, they exert an influence to alter moods, evoke images and expectations
- Managers are more rational, more detached, more concerned with process and tactics than with substance.
(Zaleznik 1977)
Management – ‘to bring about, to accomplish, to have charge of or responsibility for, to conduct’.
Leadership –’influencing, guiding in direction, course, action, opinion’.
Bennis and Nanus (1985):
Leadership
- Creates change
- Works through relationships with people
- Establishing direction
- Aligning people
- Motivating and inspiring
Kotter 1990
Management is:
- Planning and budgeting
- Organizing and staffing
- Controlling and problem solving
Kotter 1990
The real challenge is:
To combine strong leadership and strong management and use each to balance the other
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Ek, 35, started Spotify in 2006 because he thought he could stamp out the piracy that had ravaged the music business. He was right.
More than 70 million people now pay Spotify an average of about $5 a month to access 35 million songs, plus playlists and podcasts. In private transactions, investors have valued the company at more than $20 billion.
There’s only one small flaw in the business model: Spotify doesn’t make any money. The service has reported higher losses in three consecutive years despite quadrupling sales. It’s hard to be profitable when music-rights holders collect more than 75¢ on every dollar that comes in.
Pandora Media Inc.hasn’t been profitable in six years as a public company.
Deezer SA, a European service once seen as a Spotify rival, called off an initial public offering in 2015. If you don’t remember Grooveshark, MOG, Songza, or Rdio, it’s because they shut down or were bought by larger companies. Meanwhile, the tech giants don’t mind losing money on music if it helps sell other stuff
Ek is optimistic. “The music industry today is quite inefficient when it comes to breaking artists, when it comes to promoting and marketing artists,” he said at the investor presentation. “There is a tremendous opportunity in connecting these 3 million artists we have today with these 160 million-plus users that we have.” The question now is whether investors think he can do that and how much profit he can wring out each time he does.
Scratchwork.io – A Video Whiteboard for Math Students
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/03/scratchworkio-video-whiteboard-for-math.html
Scratchwork’s free plan has a limit of four boards and three collaborators.
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your quantitative method’s research instrument
5:30 minutes
Chad, K., & Anderson, H. (2017).
The new role of the library in teaching and learning outcomes (p. ). Higher Education Library Technology.
https://doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.14688.89606/1
p. 4 “Modern university libraries require remote access for large numbers of concurrent users, with fewer authentication steps and more flexible digital rights management (DRM) to satisfy student demand”. They found the most frequent problem was that core reading list titles were not available to libraries as e-books.
p. 5 Overcoming the “textbook taboo”
In the US, academic software firm bepress notes that, in response to increased student textbook costs: “Educators, institutions, and even state legislators are turning their attention toward Open Educational Resources (OER)” in order to save students money while increasing engagement and retention. As a result bepress has developed its infrastructure to host and share OER within and across institutions.21 The UMass Library Open Education Initiative estimates it has saved the institution over $1.3 million since its inception in 2011. 22 Other textbook initiatives include SUNY Open Textbooks, developed by the State University of New York Libraries, which has already published 18 textbooks, and OpenStax, developed by Rice University.
p.5. sceptics about OER rapid progress still see potential in working with publishers.
Knowledge Unlatched 23 is an example of this kind of collaboration: “We believe that by working together libraries and publishers can create a sustainable route to Open Access for scholarly books.” Groups of libraries contribute to fund publication though a crowdfunding platform. The consortium pays a fixed upfront fee for the publisher to publish the book online under a Creative Commons license.
p.6.Technology: from library systems to educational technology.The rise of the library centric reading list system
big increase in the number of universities in the UK, Australia and New Zealand deploying library reading lists solutions.The online reading list can be seen as a sort of course catalogue that gives the user a (sometimes week-by-week) course/module view on core resources and provides a link to print holdings information or the electronic full text. It differs significantly from the integrated library system (ILS) ‘course reserve’ module, notably by providing access to materials beyond the items in the library catalogue. Titles can be characterised, for example as ‘recommended’ or ‘essential’ reading and citations annotated.
Reading list software brings librarians and academics together into a system where they must cooperate to be effective. Indeed some librarians claim that the reading list system is a key library tool for transforming student learning.
Higher education institutions, particularly those in Australia, New Zealand and some other parts of Europe (including the UK) are more likely to operate a reading list model, supplying students with a (sometimes long) list of recommended titles.
p.8. E-book platforms (discusses only UK)
p.9. Data: library management information to learning analytics
p.10. Leadership
“Strong digital leadership is a key feature of effective educational organisations and its absence can be a significant barrier to progress. The digital agenda is therefore a leadership issue”. 48 (Rebooting learning for the digital age: What next for technology-enhanced higher education? Sarah Davies, Joel Mullan, Paul Feldman. Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) Report 93. February 2017. )
A merging of LibTech and EdTech
The LITA discussion is under RE: [lita-l] Anyone Running Multiple Discovery Layers?
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