Higher education leaders need to consider how artificial intelligence, large data sets, analytics, robotics and large-scale collaboration can change the essence of education. The world around us is becoming smarter. What does it mean to be a professional in the world of intelligent machines? Today's artificial intelligence uses huge amounts of data, memory and computing power. In addition to processing instructions at unbelievable speed, these machines can create their own guidelines and discover patterns invisible to people.
If intelligent machines can do all these human tasks, what does this mean for people? Will we have to know or do less - or more? And what about those intelligent machines that have such a big impact on the economy and workforce, what do they mean for higher education? Instead of replacing people, intelligent machines increase human capabilities, which means that we must learn to work with machines as partners. The changes in our professions are getting faster and faster, which suggests that the way we develop and find specialist knowledge will also change.
People are not replaced by artificial intelligence, we are promoted, and the insight generated by the machine is added to ours, expanding our intelligence in the way the telescope expands our vision. "increased intelligence". Our increasingly intelligent machines make us smarter. So whether it is artificial intelligence, robotics or other technology, today's machines can work with professionals as partners, strengthening human performance and increasing human intelligence. Low-level tasks performed by people can be replaced with higher ones.
AI and other technologies will find their place in higher education. Some higher education institutions can change the structure and flexibility of their programs. Others may focus on competences and their certification. Still others may decide not to change at all.
Machine learning is already being used as a research method in higher education. Machine learning is entirely based on statistical methods. So, the use of machine learning as a procedure in higher education is a natural extension of earlier methods. Additionally, machine learning is not a black box in which magic happens. The algorithms contained in it give results with the specified probability based on input data.
I have chosen the following article „ 7 Things You Should Know About Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning”. Here is the link to the article https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2017/4/eli7143.pdf.
The author writes about appliance of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, especially in teaching and learning. The article provides some examples of application of AI. AI is related to computer systems and algorithms capable of performing a cognitive process, decision-making or translation. It has a potential to benefit in education process in several ways. There is an idea to apply AI bots helping students(e.g answer the question) or giving every student a computer-simulated personal mentor when the lecturer or teacher is unavailable or busy with other students. The second potential of AI is internationalization by offering translation and cultural exchange for students in different countries.
I think that nowadays, AI is the essential part of our life and it will progressively become more influential in the worldwide education processes. A computer-simulated personal mentor seems to be a promising solution as students sometimes are not able to communicate with their academic teacher. Mainly, students have simple questions regarding, e.g., time of consultations and other organizational issues. This idea can be used also in schools but, in my opinion, it will be more useful for university students. AI is going to change the educational process by improvement student's engagement and motivation. The AI can be very useful for lecturers. It could relieve their professional life by letting them to get rid of routine tasks and allowing them to focus at creative work. Although AI is modern and rapidly developing technology, it will never replace human relations for me. Certainly, AI is very helpful both for students and teachers but it should be treated as help and not as a thing that can replace a human in educational process completely.
The use of artificial intelligence as a means of supporting communication is becoming more and more popular - in the context of access to knowledge. In the author's proposal the possibilities of learning of other people are described. A very important question should be asked: If we are to create such a neural network (tool) to teach others, why not use this tool to solve the same problems that this neural network is supposed to teach about? Such a solution seems to be more economical
My choice is article about "Mobile Security". Mobile Security very popular direction in programming, because, almost everyone on earth has a phone or tabletб etc. The number of mobile devices is growing every year. Mobile data protection is relevant. A few steps to protect mobile data. In many ways, the protection of mobile data depends on the user. Downloading and installing only proven applications, limit the access of mobile applications to the functions of a mobile device, for example camera or microphone. Also, the protection of mobile device depends on the operating system of the mobile device itself, now the most popular ones are Android or IOS. The IOS more closed system than Android. When using Android, it is worth using an antivirus application.It is also quite important to limit yourself to connecting to public Wi-Fi. If you will use Two-Factor Authentication, you will also secure your device
Hi, everyone, I honestly recommend you the article “7 things you should know about… Internet of things”. This issue seems familiar for all of us, we’ve got used to this idea more and more practically present in our everyday life. But it comes to describing the social phenomena as a result of industrial solutions and facilities, we can have problem with defining or classifying particular elements. This article helps to put the idea in order, and it also presents the academic research in this respect. It shows the most significant aspects and fields for further development. But the most important message coming from the article is indicating the possibilities of IoT, the perspective of large chances for future generations. It depends on us, if we’ll use it properly for our own good. Let’s start from getting familiar with some news, for example reading this: https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2014/10/eli7113-pdf.pdf
The development of the Internet of Things is closely linked to the needs of society. People have a need to control devices over the internet because it makes life easier. On the other hand, control of sensor data over the internet increases safety.
I have chosen an article entitled "7 things you should know about.... federated identity management".
Identity management refers to the policies, processes, and technologies that establish user identities and enforce rules about access to digital resources. Federated identity management is an arrangement that can be made between two or more trust domains, to allow users of these trust domains to access applications and services using the same digital identity. An identity such as this is known as federated identity and the use of such a solution pattern is known as identity federation. This is a very important topic because it concerns each of us and our identity on the Internet. We have to create more and more accounts and that means remembering more and more passwords. In the article it is presented on the example of a university, which on the basis of our account and permissions allows access to online educational resources, administrative information systems, emergency notification systems, and research tools.
Identity federation provides the following benefits: 1. Users are required to remember only one set of credentials which provides a seamless user experience. 2. Single sign-on is supported in most implementations. 3. Avoids administrative overhead by delegating account and password management responsibilities to the resident identity provider, instead of having multiple identity silos to be managed. 4. Simplifies data management and storage costs. 5. Avoids privacy and compliance burdens.
Sorry, I forgot about the link to the article https://library.educause.edu/resources/2009/9/7-things-you-should-know-about-federated-identity-management
I have read an article 7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT… Natural Language Processing" https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2018/3/eli7154.pdf
The article describes what is natural language understanding, its begginings and how what it may be used for. What is interesting, NLP which is one of the most popular field of artifficial intelligence, was created about 70 years ago at MIT by the Deparment of Defense. Nowadays it is used by many companies and researchers. It helps to ananlyze long texts as medicalones and find complex knowlegde in it.It includes text minnig, speech recognition, text summarisation, translations and many more. It is still developing and may be used in a future i.e. to create teaching assitance and improve the process of learning. The biggeest disadvantage is that natural language is far more complex than the mathematic we can create.
The additional topic which is worth to get familiar with is natural language understanding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_understanding
I chose 7 Things You Should Know About Photogrammetry. Photogrammetry and 3D printing these days is extremely important. This approach to the world around us gives the opportunity to model and familiarize yourself with the construction of objects that we see in a flat image, but also the possibility of recreating its view in three dimensions.
Today, many things: spare parts, bones and many more are reproduced using photogrammetry, and then modeled and used at various stages of life.
I choose „Reclaiming the Keys to the Kingdom: Examining End-User Administrator Rights in Higher Education”. This article is about system security in higher education. It discuss the results of a survey conducted at universities. The author notes that many universities still give administrator rights to regular users. He proposes a new solution in the form of the "Make my Admin" application which temporarily gives the administrator's rights to university employees. On university computers, we often have research results that can be valuable to the attacker. An attacker gaining access to our computer can use it to further attacks on other computers on the network. The author notes that many people still do not understand the seriousness of the threat. University employees more often need higher permissions from business employees because they use software that requires higher rights. To remedy any problems you can apply to the following solutions: • Remove all admin rights • Obtaining permission to obtain administrator rights in a specific case • Create and additional administrator account for higher priviliges rights • Using whitelist
These solutions have their pros and cons. The author presents his application, which allows you to get administrator rights for e.g. 10 minutes. After this time or after restarting the computer the permissions are automatically removed from the system. The solution proposed by the author seems to be a good idea. A researcher has an account with restrictions and if he needs higher rights he gets them for a specific time. In the linux system the sudo command works similar which allows you to run the application with higher permissions.
I chose "Smart Machines and Human Expertise: Challenges for Higher Education"(https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/8/smart-machines-and-human-expertise-challenges-for-higher-education)
The article presents possibilities offered by AI and real life use cases. It states that more and more jobs can be taken by the intelligent system and that it's a challenge for a higher education. Schools should focus on teaching easily transferable skills to ensure employment for their students.
Personally I doubt that AI as it is will ever replace people in their jobs. Firstly, solutions incorporating AI are usually designed as an assistance tools, but it's a human operator who makes the final decision. Secondly, even if a given position would become unnecessary due to an AI based solution then someone doing that job before would probably get some other responsibilities including supervising work of the algorithm.
But it sounds reasonable for schools to teach more important skills in the modern world and focus less on tasks that requires memorizing facts. Also, focusing more on developing intuition behind concepts rather than asking students to do exercises without real understanding surely would help.
Other article regarding this subject: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanieglass/2018/07/24/why-universities-need-to-prepare-students-for-the-new-ai-world/
I have read an article "THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Mobile Secuirty". Link to the article. https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2011/3/est1101-pdf.pdf
I chose this article because in my work I deal with the security of iOS mobile applications. The article is from 2011, but the included information in it are still valid. The article shows that mobile security is not only smartphones or tablets, but also laptops. Portable devices are exposed to a number of threats. In point 2 of the article, the threat posed by the wireless connection of devices (For eg. Non securded wifi network) has been identified. Threats not only come from technology. The article also shows that people willingly publish information about themselves on social networks. Such an information can be used, for example, by thieves or stalkers. Man is the biggest identified threat. People must be properly educated to understand what threats are lurking on them.
Additional resources about mobile security (from technical point of view) can be found here: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Mobile_Top_10_2016-Top_10
The topic I have chosen is: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/8/using-slack-to-solve-it-communication-problems
Why Slack is so good when it comes to internal communication within IT, business, marketing, etc. Why it so well engage workers from all departments in a big company? What is the difference between Slack and others chats? Why Slack won the battle and became so popular? Will it maintain this leadership? These and other questions I would like to discuss, based on articles:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/revolution-and-slack https://mashable.com/2017/05/12/slack-is-ruining-your-life/?europe=true And last but not least: https://slack.com/
I have chosen the article titled: Learning in bursts: Microlearning with Social Media https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/4/learning-in-bursts-microlearning-with-social-media
Microlearning with social media is a very interesting topic. Each of us uses a social network site such as Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. Social media allow us to communicate with the world and friends. Microlearning is an interesting way to use social media. It provides students with the opportunity to learn from peers, to communicate about their knowledge in practice and to create a learning community. Social media allow for a short and flexible format of speech and quick delivery of content. Microlearning is of great value in facilitating learning and introducing students to the world. Short messages or photos allow you to shape your long-term memory better.
Students have many opportunities to create and organize microlearning. For example, they can post photos on Instagram on the topic given by the teacher. They can share links to interesting articles on Twitter. They can learn a language by tagging photos of objects with their names in different languages.
The only problem I have noticed is privacy. Not every one of us would like his private data to be seen by a teacher or a classmate. The use of microlearning in social media often leads to the need to create separate accounts for learning only. We must then log into two different accounts: private and business. Despite this, microlearning using social media can become a pleasant and engaging form of learning.
I've chosen: "7 Things You Should Know About GDPR" https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2018/5/eli7156-pdf.pdf
Even though article covers GDPR, I tried to read it without any prejudice. The article starts with a scenario of some interaction between spanish student and US college. When the student decides not to attend aforementioned college, tries to exercise the EU "right to be forgotten". Example seems a bit too contrived to me. The main body of publication is divided into 7 parts, answering various questions regarding GDPR, especially in the context of education institutions. First some definitions are laid out, and then rights granted to citizens by that law, like right to be forgotten and breach notification policy. Of course, companies are to notify authorities, not the people whose data has been leaked. And right to be forgotten seems plain wrong to me - like re-writing history. It also complicates handling of digital backups and paper trails. I have been following some interesting discussions on how to implement GDPR in systems based on append-only databases and sometimes it reminded me of some scholastic teologicians disputing. Then the question "Why is it significant": the answer is "because of penalties", and conclusion that it's a complicated law and might affect US education institutions. Maybe I'm not a target audience of this article, but I still consider GDPR quite pointless, just like "cookie law": results in just another pop-up to click thru, only with longer statements.
I have chosen article Technology in Higher Education: Information Security Leadershiphttps://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2016/3/ewg1601.pdf
In higher education today, the use of technology is accelerating dramatically, underpinning core institutional missions of teaching, learning, and research. At the same time, data collection is pervasive, and there is a heightened global interest in information security. Information security practices that deal with issues such as access control, data breaches, compliance, and policies are more urgent than ever. Having an effective information security leader who can address these issues on many levels from communicating the issues with stakeholders to establishing and maintaining an effective institution wide security program is crucial. To be effective, a CISO needs to have both a blend of technical knowledge, business acumen and cybersecurity skills, and an appropriate position within the organization that allows them to deliver on their mandate. The mission today is beyond just exposure and encapsulates everything from protecting brand and reputation, revenues or market share to enhancing shareholder value. This is how you evolve from a compliance-driven model to an intelligence-driven, agile model. Related articles: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/07/26/cybersecurity-and-the-new-ciso-the-leadership-enigma/#7affad033422
Today I have read the following article: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/3/transforming-our-libraries-from-analog-to-digital-a-2020-vision.
It was about transferring nowadays analog libraries into the digital form. The creators of the Internet Archive had a vision that it would be a great idea to make the worldwide digital Library cooperating with the local libraries, instead of current analog libraries. They thought that it could be possible to achieve such goal until 2020. They have currently almost 2.5 millions of books from years before 1926, and almost 0.5 milions from years after. But the main problem pointed in the article was to digitize books from 20th century – mainly because of the copyright law.
It was described that the best way to create such Library is the cooperation of authors, publishers and libraries. There shouldn’t be any monopoly at these field, like it was in case of Google Books. It is essential to digitize books – and it can be accomplished mainly by libraries, which could reassure digitalization of the books they have in their collection. The cooperation is crucial to ensure that there won’t be a case, when some books are digitalized a lot of times, and some are not at all – the diversity of digitalized books is very important.
What’s even more important, they developed a scanning system, which can provide fast and effective way to digitize books. It is essential, because it would cut down the costs of digitalization. Estimated cost of digitize one book is between 10 and 30 dollars.
Speaking of the way how the libraries could lend the book, author of the article underlined that it would be standalone decision of each of the library – either if they will extand for free, or lend it for money.
After reading this article I am very interesting, if in 2 years from now on in fact there would be new form of the libraries – analog ones, using the Internet to give access consumers to their collections. In my opinion it would be fantastic idea – borrowing books can be faster and easier, which is really important in our times. I also think that it could introduce the option of lending books directly to the e-book readers. In any case, I am sure that is something interesting to look forward to.
I’ve chosen an article: “Combating Security Uncertainty with Information Security Awareness” (https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/1/combating-security-uncertainty-with-information-security-awareness).
This article is about information security programs in higher education and their impact on promoting awareness and changing human behaviour. These programs help turn ordinary students, faculty, and staff into savvy end users who nimbly avoid the Internet’s most perilous traps such as phishing e-mails or malware.
In article’s notes the authors quote an another article related to this topic: “Higher Education Information Security Awareness Programs” (https://library.educause.edu/resources/2016/8/higher-education-information-security-awareness-programs). This article states that awareness and education is an important part of any higher education information security program.
As far as I’m concerned, nowadays cybersecurity awareness is a really important topic. Every computer user should participate in such training. Why? Because each of us uses e-mail, online resources, downloads files or uses social media. A human is the weakest link in providing IT security and that is why there are many threats to human weakness in recent times. Modern hackers must also be specialists in human behavior. You can defend yourself against it only when you are aware of it ...
Other related articles and webpages: - “Information Security Guide: Effective Practices and Solutions for Higher Education” (https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/2014infosecurityguide/Home) - “Cybersecurity Awareness Resource Library” (https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/2014infosecurityguide/Cybersecurity+Awareness+Resource+Library) - “The IT Workforce in Higher Education” (https://library.educause.edu/resources/2016/3/the-it-workforce-in-higher-education-2016)
I first wanted to discuss this: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/8/smart-machines-and-human-expertise-challenges-for-higher-education but as I found it already covered, I switched to this: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/9/technology-learner-centric-programs-adult-friendly-colleges
I must say, this touches on a quite hot topic for me personally, as I am now involved in higher education, and some of it, like this very course, is being with help of the new technologies. (New as in "Web 2.0", not "deep learning" or "blockchain", but still it encompasses the area of intrest of the aforementioned article).
I would argue, that this is all on a spectrum. Education is made up of two parts - the transfer of information (a.k.a. "knowledge"), and personal development, especially but not limited to a social context (a.k.a. "skills"). The technology is now ready to transfer knowledge to the farthest corners of the World, but this is only one part of education. Adult people are more autonomous, so they need less guidance, and can rely more on the raw information (this is why newspapers and magazines get replaced with the Web), but children and youth need more "human touch". As a working adult, I prefer the individual, remote education, without the need for frequent trips to Warsaw.
A specific side-effect of education is obtaining credentials. This is also discussed - new programs emerge to organize the evaluation of remote students. This is of course necessary, but it may point to a pre-existing problem in the American education system. Companies rarely expect to train a generally educated graduate to a specific line of work and thus build a relationship, they want ready-made cog for their corporate machine. This state of affairs is neither worsened nor improved by introduction of new technologies into the education process.
The article i choose (https://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/12/institutional-analytics-and-the-data-tsunami) describe data acquisition revolution driven by appearance of the Data Lake. This new addition to BI architecture is built on Hadoop, it's capable to add new and varied data sources and make them available quickly. It will be even more useful with data from Internet of things and its countless networked objects. Currently unstructured and semi-structured data (data from social media, help center chats or calls converted to texts, surveys, e-mails, documents, scientific and research data, learning management system (LMS) discussion boards, videos, audio, digital images, network traffic, web logs, machine/device output, and streaming data from sensors increasingly placed throughout our environment) stands for 80% of an institution's data. This changes will also impact the advanced analytics platforms which will better enable big data modeling and forecasting, conducting what-if analyses to predict the effects of potential changes in business strategies. More over we will see innovation at data visualization, data mining, big data consumption, machine learning, optimization, simulation, location intelligence, and services beyond the traditional data warehouse and BI tools.
The article point out the pros of Cloud solution such as flexibility, scalability, reliability, elasticity, agility, security, and cost efficiencies. But also emphasis several concerns, the most common of which are data privacy and security requirements, connectivity and bandwidth capacity, loss of control, and unexpected costs.
Related article: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/09/data-lake-vs-data-warehouse-key-differences.html https://www.salesforce.com/uk/blog/2015/11/why-move-to-the-cloud-10-benefits-of-cloud-computing.html
Article of my choice is “Smart Machines and Human Expertise: Challenges for Higher Education”
ReplyDeleteLink: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/8/smart-machines-and-human-expertise-challenges-for-higher-education
Higher education leaders need to consider how artificial intelligence, large data sets, analytics, robotics and large-scale collaboration can change the essence of education. The world around us is becoming smarter. What does it mean to be a professional in the world of intelligent machines? Today's artificial intelligence uses huge amounts of data, memory and computing power. In addition to processing instructions at unbelievable speed, these machines can create their own guidelines and discover patterns invisible to people.
If intelligent machines can do all these human tasks, what does this mean for people? Will we have to know or do less - or more? And what about those intelligent machines that have such a big impact on the economy and workforce, what do they mean for higher education? Instead of replacing people, intelligent machines increase human capabilities, which means that we must learn to work with machines as partners. The changes in our professions are getting faster and faster, which suggests that the way we develop and find specialist knowledge will also change.
People are not replaced by artificial intelligence, we are promoted, and the insight generated by the machine is added to ours, expanding our intelligence in the way the telescope expands our vision. "increased intelligence". Our increasingly intelligent machines make us smarter. So whether it is artificial intelligence, robotics or other technology, today's machines can work with professionals as partners, strengthening human performance and increasing human intelligence. Low-level tasks performed by people can be replaced with higher ones.
AI and other technologies will find their place in higher education. Some higher education institutions can change the structure and flexibility of their programs. Others may focus on competences and their certification. Still others may decide not to change at all.
Additional materials:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-artificial-intelligence-can-change-higher-education-136983766/
https://thepienews.com/analysis/higher-education-ai/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanieglass/2018/07/24/why-universities-need-to-prepare-students-for-the-new-ai-world/#556eb8d16bc8
Machine learning is already being used as a research method in higher education. Machine learning is entirely based on statistical methods. So, the use of machine learning as a procedure in higher education is a natural extension of earlier methods. Additionally, machine learning is not a black box in which magic happens. The algorithms contained in it give results with the specified probability based on input data.
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ReplyDeleteI have chosen the following article „ 7 Things You Should Know About Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning”. Here is the link to the article https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2017/4/eli7143.pdf.
ReplyDeleteThe author writes about appliance of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, especially in teaching and learning. The article provides some examples of application of AI.
AI is related to computer systems and algorithms capable of performing a cognitive process, decision-making or translation. It has a potential to benefit in education process in several ways. There is an idea to apply AI bots helping students(e.g answer the question) or giving every student a computer-simulated personal mentor when the lecturer or teacher is unavailable or busy with other students. The second potential of AI is internationalization by offering translation and cultural exchange for students in different countries.
I think that nowadays, AI is the essential part of our life and it will progressively become more influential in the worldwide education processes. A computer-simulated personal mentor seems to be a promising solution as students sometimes are not able to communicate with their academic teacher. Mainly, students have simple questions regarding, e.g., time of consultations and other organizational issues. This idea can be used also in schools but, in my opinion, it will be more useful for university students. AI is going to change the educational process by improvement student's engagement and motivation. The AI can be very useful for lecturers. It could relieve their professional life by letting them to get rid of routine tasks and allowing them to focus at creative work. Although AI is modern and rapidly developing technology, it will never replace human relations for me. Certainly, AI is very helpful both for students and teachers but it should be treated as help and not as a thing that can replace a human in educational process completely.
The use of artificial intelligence as a means of supporting communication is becoming more and more popular - in the context of access to knowledge. In the author's proposal the possibilities of learning of other people are described. A very important question should be asked: If we are to create such a neural network (tool) to teach others, why not use this tool to solve the same problems that this neural network is supposed to teach about? Such a solution seems to be more economical
ReplyDeleteMy choice is article about "Mobile Security". Mobile Security very popular direction in programming, because, almost everyone on earth has a phone or tabletб etc. The number of mobile devices is growing every year. Mobile data protection is relevant. A few steps to protect mobile data. In many ways, the protection of mobile data depends on the user. Downloading and installing only proven applications, limit the access of mobile applications to the functions of a mobile device, for example camera or microphone. Also, the protection of mobile device depends on the operating system of the mobile device itself, now the most popular ones are Android or IOS. The IOS more closed system than Android. When using Android, it is worth using an antivirus application.It is also quite important to limit yourself to connecting to public Wi-Fi. If you will use Two-Factor Authentication, you will also secure your device
ReplyDeleteThe theses presented in the article are obvious. It is obvious that you should take care of your own safety on the web.
DeleteHi, everyone,
ReplyDeleteI honestly recommend you the article “7 things you should know about… Internet of things”.
This issue seems familiar for all of us, we’ve got used to this idea more and more practically present in our everyday life. But it comes to describing the social phenomena as a result of industrial solutions and facilities, we can have problem with defining or classifying particular elements.
This article helps to put the idea in order, and it also presents the academic research in this respect. It shows the most significant aspects and fields for further development. But the most important message coming from the article is indicating the possibilities of IoT, the perspective of large chances for future generations. It depends on us, if we’ll use it properly for our own good. Let’s start from getting familiar with some news, for example reading this:
https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2014/10/eli7113-pdf.pdf
Best regards to all of you.
The development of the Internet of Things is closely linked to the needs of society. People have a need to control devices over the internet because it makes life easier. On the other hand, control of sensor data over the internet increases safety.
DeleteI have chosen an article entitled "7 things you should know about.... federated identity management".
ReplyDeleteIdentity management refers to the policies, processes, and technologies that establish user identities and enforce rules about access to digital resources. Federated identity management is an arrangement that can be made between two or more trust domains, to allow users of these trust domains to access applications and services using the same digital identity. An identity such as this is known as federated identity and the use of such a solution pattern is known as identity federation. This is a very important topic because it concerns each of us and our identity on the Internet. We have to create more and more accounts and that means remembering more and more passwords. In the article it is presented on the example of a university, which on the basis of our account and permissions allows access to online educational resources, administrative information systems, emergency notification systems, and research tools.
Identity federation provides the following benefits:
1. Users are required to remember only one set of credentials which provides a seamless user experience.
2. Single sign-on is supported in most implementations.
3. Avoids administrative overhead by delegating account and password management responsibilities to the resident identity provider, instead of having multiple identity silos to be managed.
4. Simplifies data management and storage costs.
5. Avoids privacy and compliance burdens.
Additional materials:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_identity
https://blog.centrify.com/federated-identity-management-vs-sso/
https://wso2.com/articles/2018/06/what-is-federated-identity-management
Sorry, I forgot about the link to the article
Deletehttps://library.educause.edu/resources/2009/9/7-things-you-should-know-about-federated-identity-management
I have read an article 7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT… Natural Language Processing" https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2018/3/eli7154.pdf
ReplyDeleteThe article describes what is natural language understanding, its begginings and how what it may be used for. What is interesting, NLP which is one of the most popular field of artifficial intelligence, was created about 70 years ago at MIT by the Deparment of Defense. Nowadays it is used by many companies and researchers. It helps to ananlyze long texts as medicalones and find complex knowlegde in it.It includes text minnig, speech recognition, text summarisation, translations and many more. It is still developing and may be used in a future i.e. to create teaching assitance and improve the process of learning. The biggeest disadvantage is that natural language is far more complex than the mathematic we can create.
The additional topic which is worth to get familiar with is natural language understanding:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_understanding
I chose 7 Things You Should Know About Photogrammetry.
ReplyDeletePhotogrammetry and 3D printing these days is extremely important.
This approach to the world around us gives the opportunity to model
and familiarize yourself with the construction of objects that
we see in a flat image, but also the possibility of recreating
its view in three dimensions.
Today, many things: spare parts, bones and many more are
reproduced using photogrammetry, and then modeled and used
at various stages of life.
additional materials:
http://legacymedsearch.com/world-first-implantation-of-3d-printed-vertebrae/
I choose „Reclaiming the Keys to the Kingdom: Examining End-User Administrator Rights in Higher Education”. This article is about system security in higher education. It discuss the results of a survey conducted at universities. The author notes that many universities still give administrator rights to regular users. He proposes a new solution in the form of the "Make my Admin" application which temporarily gives the administrator's rights to university employees. On university computers, we often have research results that can be valuable to the attacker. An attacker gaining access to our computer can use it to further attacks on other computers on the network. The author notes that many people still do not understand the seriousness of the threat. University employees more often need higher permissions from business employees because they use software that requires higher rights. To remedy any problems you can apply to the following solutions:
ReplyDelete• Remove all admin rights
• Obtaining permission to obtain administrator rights in a specific case
• Create and additional administrator account for higher priviliges rights
• Using whitelist
These solutions have their pros and cons. The author presents his
application, which allows you to get administrator rights for e.g. 10 minutes. After this time or after restarting the computer the permissions are automatically removed from the system.
The solution proposed by the author seems to be a good idea. A researcher has an account with restrictions and if he needs higher rights he gets them for a specific time. In the linux system the sudo command works similar which allows you to run the application with higher permissions.
I chose "Smart Machines and Human Expertise: Challenges for Higher Education"(https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/8/smart-machines-and-human-expertise-challenges-for-higher-education)
ReplyDeleteThe article presents possibilities offered by AI and real life use cases. It states that more and more jobs can be taken by the intelligent system and that it's a challenge for a higher education. Schools should focus on teaching easily transferable skills to ensure employment for their students.
Personally I doubt that AI as it is will ever replace people in their jobs. Firstly, solutions incorporating AI are usually designed as an assistance tools, but it's a human operator who makes the final decision. Secondly, even if a given position would become unnecessary due to an AI based solution then someone doing that job before would probably get some other responsibilities including supervising work of the algorithm.
But it sounds reasonable for schools to teach more important skills in the modern world and focus less on tasks that requires memorizing facts. Also, focusing more on developing intuition behind concepts rather than asking students to do exercises without real understanding surely would help.
Other article regarding this subject:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanieglass/2018/07/24/why-universities-need-to-prepare-students-for-the-new-ai-world/
I have read an article "THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Mobile Secuirty". Link to the article.
ReplyDeletehttps://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2011/3/est1101-pdf.pdf
I chose this article because in my work I deal with the security of iOS mobile applications.
The article is from 2011, but the included information in it are still valid.
The article shows that mobile security is not only smartphones or tablets, but also laptops.
Portable devices are exposed to a number of threats. In point 2 of the article, the threat posed by the wireless connection of devices (For eg. Non securded wifi network) has been identified.
Threats not only come from technology. The article also shows that people willingly publish information about themselves on social networks.
Such an information can be used, for example, by thieves or stalkers. Man is the biggest identified threat.
People must be properly educated to understand what threats are lurking on them.
Additional resources about mobile security (from technical point of view) can be found here:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Mobile_Top_10_2016-Top_10
The topic I have chosen is:
ReplyDeletehttps://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/8/using-slack-to-solve-it-communication-problems
Why Slack is so good when it comes to internal communication within IT, business, marketing, etc. Why it so well engage workers from all departments in a big company? What is the difference between Slack and others chats? Why Slack won the battle and became so popular? Will it maintain this leadership? These and other questions I would like to discuss, based on articles:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/revolution-and-slack
https://mashable.com/2017/05/12/slack-is-ruining-your-life/?europe=true
And last but not least:
https://slack.com/
I have chosen the article titled: Learning in bursts: Microlearning with Social Media
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Microlearning with social media is a very interesting topic. Each of us uses a social network site such as Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. Social media allow us to communicate with the world and friends. Microlearning is an interesting way to use social media. It provides students with the opportunity to learn from peers, to communicate about their knowledge in practice and to create a learning community. Social media allow for a short and flexible format of speech and quick delivery of content. Microlearning is of great value in facilitating learning and introducing students to the world. Short messages or photos allow you to shape your long-term memory better.
Students have many opportunities to create and organize microlearning. For example, they can post photos on Instagram on the topic given by the teacher. They can share links to interesting articles on Twitter. They can learn a language by tagging photos of objects with their names in different languages.
The only problem I have noticed is privacy. Not every one of us would like his private data to be seen by a teacher or a classmate. The use of microlearning in social media often leads to the need to create separate accounts for learning only. We must then log into two different accounts: private and business. Despite this, microlearning using social media can become a pleasant and engaging form of learning.
I've chosen: "7 Things You Should Know About GDPR"
ReplyDeletehttps://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2018/5/eli7156-pdf.pdf
Even though article covers GDPR, I tried to read it without any prejudice.
The article starts with a scenario of some interaction between spanish student and US college. When the student decides not to attend aforementioned college, tries to exercise the EU "right to be forgotten". Example seems a bit too contrived to me.
The main body of publication is divided into 7 parts, answering various questions regarding GDPR, especially in the context of education institutions.
First some definitions are laid out, and then rights granted to citizens by that law, like right to be forgotten and breach notification policy. Of course, companies are to notify authorities, not the people whose data has been leaked. And right to be forgotten seems plain wrong to me - like re-writing history. It also complicates handling of digital backups and paper trails. I have been following some interesting discussions on how to implement GDPR in systems based on append-only databases and sometimes it reminded me of some scholastic teologicians disputing.
Then the question "Why is it significant": the answer is "because of penalties", and conclusion that it's a complicated law and might affect US education institutions.
Maybe I'm not a target audience of this article, but I still consider GDPR quite pointless, just like "cookie law": results in just another pop-up to click thru, only with longer statements.
I have chosen article Technology in Higher Education: Information Security Leadershiphttps://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2016/3/ewg1601.pdf
ReplyDeleteIn higher education today, the use of technology is accelerating dramatically, underpinning core institutional missions of teaching, learning, and research. At the same time, data collection is pervasive, and there is a heightened global interest in information security. Information security practices that deal with issues such as access control, data breaches, compliance, and policies are more urgent than ever. Having an effective information security leader who can address these issues on many levels from communicating the issues with stakeholders to establishing and maintaining an effective institution wide security program is crucial.
To be effective, a CISO needs to have both a blend of technical knowledge, business acumen and cybersecurity skills, and an appropriate position within the organization that allows them to deliver on their mandate.
The mission today is beyond just exposure and encapsulates everything from protecting brand and reputation, revenues or market share to enhancing shareholder value. This is how you evolve from a compliance-driven model to an intelligence-driven, agile model.
Related articles:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/07/26/cybersecurity-and-the-new-ciso-the-leadership-enigma/#7affad033422
https://www.rsaconference.com/writable/presentations/file_upload/sem-m02-information-security-leadership-development-surviving-as-a-security-leader.pdf
https://securityintelligence.com/the-information-security-leader-part-1-two-distinct-roles-four-fundamental-questions-and-three-persistent-challenges/
Today I have read the following article:
ReplyDeletehttps://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/3/transforming-our-libraries-from-analog-to-digital-a-2020-vision.
It was about transferring nowadays analog libraries into the digital form. The creators of the Internet Archive had a vision that it would be a great idea to make the worldwide digital Library cooperating with the local libraries, instead of current analog libraries. They thought that it could be possible to achieve such goal until 2020. They have currently almost 2.5 millions of books from years before 1926, and almost 0.5 milions from years after. But the main problem pointed in the article was to digitize books from 20th century – mainly because of the copyright law.
It was described that the best way to create such Library is the cooperation of authors, publishers and libraries. There shouldn’t be any monopoly at these field, like it was in case of Google Books.
It is essential to digitize books – and it can be accomplished mainly by libraries, which could reassure digitalization of the books they have in their collection. The cooperation is crucial to ensure that there won’t be a case, when some books are digitalized a lot of times, and some are not at all – the diversity of digitalized books is very important.
What’s even more important, they developed a scanning system, which can provide fast and effective way to digitize books. It is essential, because it would cut down the costs of digitalization.
Estimated cost of digitize one book is between 10 and 30 dollars.
Speaking of the way how the libraries could lend the book, author of the article underlined that it would be standalone decision of each of the library – either if they will extand for free, or lend it for money.
After reading this article I am very interesting, if in 2 years from now on in fact there would be new form of the libraries – analog ones, using the Internet to give access consumers to their collections. In my opinion it would be fantastic idea – borrowing books can be faster and easier, which is really important in our times. I also think that it could introduce the option of lending books directly to the e-book readers. In any case, I am sure that is something interesting to look forward to.
I’ve chosen an article: “Combating Security Uncertainty with Information Security Awareness” (https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/1/combating-security-uncertainty-with-information-security-awareness).
ReplyDeleteThis article is about information security programs in higher education and their impact on promoting awareness and changing human behaviour. These programs help turn ordinary students, faculty, and staff into savvy end users who nimbly avoid the Internet’s most perilous traps such as phishing e-mails or malware.
In article’s notes the authors quote an another article related to this topic: “Higher Education Information Security Awareness Programs” (https://library.educause.edu/resources/2016/8/higher-education-information-security-awareness-programs). This article states that awareness and education is an important part of any higher education information security program.
As far as I’m concerned, nowadays cybersecurity awareness is a really important topic. Every computer user should participate in such training. Why? Because each of us uses e-mail, online resources, downloads files or uses social media. A human is the weakest link in providing IT security and that is why there are many threats to human weakness in recent times. Modern hackers must also be specialists in human behavior. You can defend yourself against it only when you are aware of it ...
Other related articles and webpages:
- “Information Security Guide: Effective Practices and Solutions for Higher Education” (https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/2014infosecurityguide/Home)
- “Cybersecurity Awareness Resource Library” (https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/2014infosecurityguide/Cybersecurity+Awareness+Resource+Library)
- “The IT Workforce in Higher Education” (https://library.educause.edu/resources/2016/3/the-it-workforce-in-higher-education-2016)
I first wanted to discuss this:
ReplyDeletehttps://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/8/smart-machines-and-human-expertise-challenges-for-higher-education
but as I found it already covered, I switched to this:
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/9/technology-learner-centric-programs-adult-friendly-colleges
I must say, this touches on a quite hot topic for me personally, as I am now involved in higher education, and some of it, like this very course, is being with help of the new technologies. (New as in "Web 2.0", not "deep learning" or "blockchain", but still it encompasses the area of intrest of the aforementioned article).
I would argue, that this is all on a spectrum. Education is made up of two parts - the transfer of information (a.k.a. "knowledge"), and personal development, especially but not limited to a social context (a.k.a. "skills"). The technology is now ready to transfer knowledge to the farthest corners of the World, but this is only one part of education. Adult people are more autonomous, so they need less guidance, and can rely more on the raw information (this is why newspapers and magazines get replaced with the Web), but children and youth need more "human touch". As a working adult, I prefer the individual, remote education, without the need for frequent trips to Warsaw.
A specific side-effect of education is obtaining credentials. This is also discussed - new programs emerge to organize the evaluation of remote students. This is of course necessary, but it may point to a pre-existing problem in the American education system. Companies rarely expect to train a generally educated graduate to a specific line of work and thus build a relationship, they want ready-made cog for their corporate machine. This state of affairs is neither worsened nor improved by introduction of new technologies into the education process.
Additional materials:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1096751617300118
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07294360.2016.1171300
The article i choose (https://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/12/institutional-analytics-and-the-data-tsunami) describe data acquisition revolution driven by appearance of the Data Lake. This new addition to BI architecture is built on Hadoop, it's capable to add new and varied data sources and make them available quickly. It will be even more useful with data from Internet of things and its countless networked objects. Currently unstructured and semi-structured data (data from social media, help center chats or calls converted to texts, surveys, e-mails, documents, scientific and research data, learning management system (LMS) discussion boards, videos, audio, digital images, network traffic, web logs, machine/device output, and streaming data from sensors increasingly placed throughout our environment) stands for 80% of an institution's data. This changes will also impact the advanced analytics platforms which will better enable big data modeling and forecasting, conducting what-if analyses to predict the effects of potential changes in business strategies. More over we will see innovation at data visualization, data mining, big data consumption, machine learning, optimization, simulation, location intelligence, and services beyond the traditional data warehouse and BI tools.
ReplyDeleteThe article point out the pros of Cloud solution such as flexibility, scalability, reliability, elasticity, agility, security, and cost efficiencies. But also emphasis several concerns, the most common of which are data privacy and security requirements, connectivity and bandwidth capacity, loss of control, and unexpected costs.
Related article:
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/09/data-lake-vs-data-warehouse-key-differences.html
https://www.salesforce.com/uk/blog/2015/11/why-move-to-the-cloud-10-benefits-of-cloud-computing.html