12 Sources for Free Images to Use on Your Blog and Social Media Posts November 3, 2014 by Tricia Goss The image you choose can make or break your social media updates, blog posts and other content. But, finding the right picture to accompany your post can be challenging.
Cheap and fast Human linguistic annotation is crucial for many natural language processing tasks but can be expensive and time-consuming. We explore the use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk system, a significantly cheaper and faster method for collecting annotations from a broad base of paid non-expert contributors over the Web. We investigate five tasks: affect recognition, word similarity, recognizing textual entailment, event temporal ordering, and word sense disambiguation. CES 2015: The home of the future, available today We've been hearing about the promise of the connected home, or the "Internet of Things," for years. At this CES, one thing became clear: the connected home of the future is achievable today. Qualcomm's smart home, for example, was a mock-up showing how tech could change the way we live. Unlike past years, however, the vast majority of "Things" on show were off-the-shelf products you could buy and install in your apartment right now. Gallery | 7 Photos
The future of online learning In the first of an occasional series featuring two experts debating a hot topic for students, Anant Agarwal and Chip Paucek, chief executives of online learning providers edX and 2U respectively, share their predictions for business education in 2020 On Friday, 16th January 2015, readers will have the opportunity to ask both experts their questions in a live Q&A between 2pm and 3pm GMT. Register now to our MBA blog, where the Q&A will be held, and send questions to ask@ft.com. Anant Agarwal, chief executive of edX
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3 Color Combinations that Work - Blog When creating a video, your content is not the only element you need to pay attention to. The design of your video can make it or break it. One aspect of the design of your video is the color palette you choose to use. Picking colors that work well together is a great start to create beautiful video designs and to achieve visual harmony. If you don’t want to confuse your audience or scare them away with cluttered designs it’s important not to use too many colors. Three or four colors should do the trick: you can use these colors either as background base, foreground tones or accent colors. moocs Articles : Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions Multiple choice test questions, also known as items, can be an effective and efficient way to assess learning outcomes. Multiple choice test items have several potential advantages: Versatility: Multiple choice test items can be written to assess various levels of learning outcomes, from basic recall to application, analysis, and evaluation. Because students are choosing from a set of potential answers, however, there are obvious limits on what can be tested with multiple choice items.
Professor Mike Sharples - People Profiles - Open University Profile For further information see My research concerns human-centred design of new technologies for learning. Professor Agnes Kukulska Hulme - People Profiles - Open University Profile Short biography Agnes Kukulska-Hulme is Professor of Learning Technology and Communication in the Institute of Educational Technology. She has been working in mobile learning since 2001, leading research projects investigating learning innovation in the UK and internationally.