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Ajit Pai will step down

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20 from r/technology

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20.html

In 2017, Pai voted with his fellow Republican commissioners to remove rules that prohibited internet providers from blocking or slowing traffic to particular sites and offering higher speed “lanes” at higher prices. Many major internet providers have not yet taken advantage of that rule change, however.

Net neutrality advocates cheered Pai’s departure online.

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proctoring software and surveillance in the COVID-19 era

https://www.facebook.com/groups/RemakingtheUniversity/permalink/1454440301415995/

proctoring software and surveillance in the COVID-19 era.

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/teach-against-surveillance

 

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Webcam policies

https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/706123016685066/

Does your college/university have an official policy on webcams on/off during Zoom classes?
Do you, as faculty, have something written in the syllabus that addresses the issue?
I am a part of a college-wide sub committee, and we are looking for best practices. Personally, I feel uneasy teaching to black rectangles.
https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/2020-12-Opinion-Online-Class-Cameras-On-Requirements-a11y.pdf

https://higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/tip-dont-require-cameras-on
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Internet is utility not luxury

It’s 2020: Why Is The Internet Still Treated Like A Luxury, Not A Utility? from r/technology

It’s 2020: Why Is The Internet Still Treated Like A Luxury, Not A Utility?

https://gothamist.com/news/its-2020-why-is-the-internet-still-treated-like-a-luxury-not-a-utility

The city Board of Estimate first decided back in 1965 to slice up the city into cable-TV franchise fiefdoms, a setup that has survived largely intact in the internet era. Today, Altice (aka Optimum) has exclusive cable rights to the Bronx and southeast Brooklyn, while Charter (aka Spectrum, formerly Time Warner) has the rest of the city; Verizon FiOS is also available in a slowly expanding patchwork of areas overlying those two. As a result, most city residents have at most one other option if they’re unhappy with their current service, and many have none at all.

Americans weren’t always beholden to their local cable and phone companies for internet access, notes Christopher Mitchell, director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative for the D.C.-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance. In the 1990s, thousands of internet service providers across the country offered dialup connections for relatively low prices, connecting via the copper wires of the phone system. The Telecommunications Act of 1996, he says, was initially designed to build on this by enabling multiple providers to use the new, faster networks that were then starting to be rolled out using higher-capacity coaxial and fiber-optic cable. It didn’t quite pan out.

“Both the Clinton and the Bush administrations dismantled that, under pressure from the big cable and telephone companies,” says Mitchell. “Most of those internet access providers went out of business, because they didn’t have access to the networks. If you have a policy that requires a company to pay $1,500 per home to get a subscriber, and it takes three to four years to earn that money back, you will not have much competition.”

The result has been a network of broadband services that are unaffordable or unavailable for a persistently high number of local households.

Torres noted that the city has spent nearly $300 million on renting otherwise-vacant hotels to house homeless New Yorkers during the pandemic, but hasn’t asked for the hotels to allow residents access to their broadband routers.

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Provost CTL

9 Reasons Why Your Next Provost Should Be a CTL Director

Rethinking the recruitment pool.

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/learning-innovation/9-reasons-why-your-next-provost-should-be-ctl-director

No. 1: Teaching and Learning Is What Colleges and Universities Do

No. 2: Institutional Resilience and Instructional Continuity

No. 3: The Alignment of Institutional Structures to Learning Science

No. 4: The Integrated CTL Model and Institutional Leadership

No. 5: The Prioritization of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

No. 6: Relationships With Faculty Colleagues

No. 7: Experience Leading Institutional Change Initiatives

No. 8: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

No. 9: The Strategic Shift to Blended and Online Learning

analytical skills COVID 5G

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/poor-numerical-literacy-linked-to-greater-susceptibility-to-covid-19-fake-news

The research, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science
Researchers at Cambridge University said the findings suggested improving people’s analytical skills could help turn the tide against an epidemic of “fake news” surrounding the health crisis.

Some scientists think that susceptibility to misinformation is related to political views, while others think it is linked to reasoning abilities.
Another distinct factor linked to belief in Covid-19 “fake news” was age, the researchers found. Being older was associated with lower susceptibility to misinformation everywhere (except Mexico)

Political conservatism was also linked to a slightly higher susceptibility to misinformation, the researchers found, but surprisingly, this link was not as strong in the US and UK as it was elsewhere.

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Beyond Incrementalism

Beyond Incrementalism

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/09/22/too-many-presidents-are-focusing-tactics-rather-strategy-during-challenging-time

In a time of growing and increasingly complex challenges, too many top administrators, leadership teams and boards are focusing on tactics rather than strategy

how should presidents begin to think strategically about the content and the pedagogy of the education their institutions will offer going forward? How should they lead their institutions to take concrete steps to eliminate systemic inequities on their campuses? How can they facilitate a commitment to combat racism not only on their campuses but also in their local communities and beyond? How can they manage all this as many face daily threats to their institution’s financial health?

Some of the presidents with whom I talked, along with several trustees and faculty members, have inspired the following suggestions for how at least some campus leaders may begin to think about the future.

Move even more online. 

Rethink goals in light of demographic realities, concerns about costs and shifting student interests.

Reconceptualize and streamline institutional structures to better serve faculty and student realities.

Consolidate student support services. 

Embrace the virtue of the out-of-doors. 

Budget for mission, with long-term strategies in mind. 

Address systemic racism, sexism, homophobia and other biases.

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Responding to Susan Resneck Pierce’s excellent Views piece, “Beyond Incrementalism.”

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/blogs/learning-innovation/online-learning-not-strategic

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Hands-on is “goggles-on”

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/blogs/online-trending-now/hands-classes-distance-and-emerging-virtual-future

As we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), we must be vigilant to keep our classes relevant to the rapidly changing workplace and the emerging digital aspects of life in the 2020s.

deployment of 5G delivery to mobile computing

Certainly, 5G provides a huge upgrade in bandwidth, enabling better streaming of video and gaming. However, it is the low latency of 5G that enables the most powerful potential for distance learning. VR, AR and XR could not smoothly function in the 4G environment because of the lag in images and responses caused by a latency rate of 50 milliseconds (ms). The new 5G technologies drop that latency rate to 5 ms or less, which produces responses and images that our brains perceive as seamlessly instant.

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=industrial+revolution

Gig Academy

House of Cards: Can the American university be saved?

Daniel BessnerTwitter Sept 8, 2929

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gig-academy-meritocracy-trap-universities-crisis/

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Your Classes Are on Zoom and Your Teaching Staff Is Being Cut

FRANCO PALAZZI

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/academia-uk-essex-university-layoffs-higher-education/

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On the Current Situation: Normal Violences, Pandemics, Emergencies, Necropolitics, Zombies, and Creepy Treehouses?Jeremy Hunsinger

https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/article/view/386

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