Bridging-based Ranking definition

Ranking higher comments in which multiple groups can agree.

When thinking about algorithmic feeds, one probably ought to not include simple likes/favorites/bookmarks as they're such low hanging fruit. Better indicators are interactions which take time, effort, work to post.

Using various forms of webmention as indicators could be interesting as one can parse responses and make an actual comment worth more than a dozen "likes", for example.

Curating people (who respond) as well as curating the responses themselves could be useful.

Time windowing curation of people and curators could be a useful metric.

Attempting to be "democratic" in these processes may often lead to the Harry and Mary Beercan effect and gaming issues seen in spaces like Digg or Twitter and have dramatic consequences for the broader readership and community. Democracy in these spaces is more likely to get you cat videos and vitriol with a soupçon of listicles and clickbait.

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My sketchnotes here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Dj47SHE2ehzdEMM17

Plus, the measurement is based on journal articles from commercial databases (eg: Scopus). Those databases index have language bias. On the other hand, we are lacking of national level scientific database that provide dataset for those rankings to process.

All rankings measure the following components, which all of them contain level of bias:

• Teaching (the learning environment): international students vs large amount of internal high school graduates
• Research (volume, income and reputation): high profile research vs "low level" research to solve internal national problem
• Citations (research influence): only based on commercial database with language bias
• International outlook (staff, students and research): lack of national data (eg: tracer study) to share with those ranking, international vs national issues
• Industry income (knowledge transfer): this is mostly controlled by economical situation, which the universities have no control.

and not to mention it drives external economical-social setting eg: labour market, top university labeling in the mind of parents, etc.

For less economically stable countries (eg Indonesia), many indicators are very much controlled by national level situations (regulations, funding), geographical settings, and the large sum of high school graduates to enter undergraduate degree. On the contrary, all rankings only relevant for graduate research.

This page, Top Tools for Learning, is updated every year. It lists and briefly describes the top tech tools for adult learning. For the current (2018) list, they are YouTube, PowerPoint, and Google Search. The list proceeds through the top 200 and there are links to each tool. The purpose of this page is to list them; tutorials, etc. are not offered. Rating 4/5

New Media Consortium Horizon Report This page provides a link to the annual Horizon Report. The report becomes available late in the year. The report identifies emerging technologies that are likely to be influential and describes the timeline and prospective impact for each. Unlike the link to top learning tools that anyone can use, the technologies listed here may be beyond the ability of the average trainer to implement. While it is informative and perhaps a good idea to stay abreast of these listings, it is not necessarily something that the average instructional designer can apply. Rating: 3/5

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