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Google Prediction API – Google Code

The sentiment analysis part of this API might be useful for several project students who want to look into the statistics of public opinion without spending a lifetime writing the core software.

Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge

Key to effective teaching is the conveyance of Threshold Concepts – gateways that impart irreversible thought patterns and new ontological structures allowing the learner to overcome hitherto troublesome knowledge.

Some Academic Conference Lectures

Some really good (and long) lectures on this site. Much of the content appears to be from conferences, so it’s peer-reviewed content that’s presented.

FORA.tv

a collection of discussions, lectures, readings, all video, mostly very good

P2PU School of Webcraft | Drumbeat

Something interesting from Mozilla Drumbeat – perhaps some funding for research and course development.

Four Levels of Competency

I was tickled to read in Teaching by Lecture of what N. Whitman calls the four levels of competency. The levels advance thus (my paraphrasing in parenthesis): Unconscious incompetence (you don’t know you can’t do it) Conscious incompetence (you know you can’t do it) Conscious competence (you know how to do it) Unconscious competence (you …