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TeleHealth startup Altibbi reveals a milestone in its "One Million Free Medical Consultations"
Startup MGZN
Altibbi, the MENA region's first and largest digital health platform, that was selected 100 Arab startups shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution in 2019 by The World Economic Forum and the Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB), reveals a milestone in its "One Million Free Medical Consultations" initiative providing 50,000 free consultations in only two months and receiving 87,567 consultation requests on the app.
The campaign which is known as the biggest telehealth initiative in the world commenced in February, and saw Altibbi partner with Egyptian NGO T20 and Telecom Egypt (WE) to launch the initiative with the aim to alleviate the burden of medical consultation costs for Egyptians and provide them with accessible and high-quality healthcare.
Throughout the first two months of the campaign, the users' inquiries included a wide variety of topics such as reproductive and digestive health to musculoskeletal and dermatology.
"The results so far are extremely rewarding, and the fact that most of the consultations came from Upper Egyptian governorates signifies the relevance of free consultations to those governorates with the lowest average income," said Jalil Allabadi, Founder and CEO of Altibbi.
In order to reach the campaign objectives, Altibbi developed a network of handpicked doctors who provide approximately 1000 consultations per day, across nine Middle Eastern countries. Despite the high volume of hired doctors, Altibbi has a stringent selection process to ensure the consistent delivery of quality medical care. Accordingly, only 10% of applicants make it to the final round and are qualified to provide consultations through the app and website.
"We want every family in the region to have access to qualified doctors. We aim to provide that first layer of healthcare to the masses in a trusted environment, where users can not only get reliable medical services, but can also have access to unlimited medical information on any desired topic," added Jalil Allabadi.
The initiative's findings have shown that users who used the app during the campaign rated their experience as 4.6 out of 5, which was attributed to the anonymous aspect in teleconsultations allowing app users to share their personal health inquiries.
"This is the first time for me to use Altibbi, my symptoms didn't seem bad enough to take leave from work, visit the doctor and pay 100 EGP, so I called a doctor using Altibbi and it turns out I have an allergy and he gave me tips on how to deal with it. I feel better now!" said Mohamed Wael, one of Altibbi's patients who benefited from the campaign so far.
The campaign will carry on for the coming months, with a constant mission to connect patients to local doctors for efficient and anonymous medical consultations, in line with Altibbi's aim to revolutionize traditional medicine in Egypt.
Regional IT services and training provider EXCEED launches a new software in Bahrain
Exceed IT Services, regional IT services, and training provider, has announced the official launch of its software in the Bahraini market. From process automation to strategy management, Exceed's products are designed...
Oasis500 launches its second investment fund to further support entrepreneurs in Jordan
Oasis500, a pre-seed and seed fund manager and accelerator, announces the launch of a second fund with the support from the King Abdullah Fund for Development (KAFD), the Innovative Start-ups and SMEs Fund (ISSF) and...
Middle East's online reputation management tool Localyser partners with AZADEA Group to elevate customer experience
Localyser, the Middle East's first online reputation management tool, is proud to announce their appointment as the partner of choice for the F&B brands of AZADEA Group, the region's premier lifestyle retail company...
Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed to headline Bloomberg Live venture capital event in San Francisco
Following his participation in the plant-based investor discussion at sf citi in San Francisco this month, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of KBW Ventures, HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, will...
GCC's leading laundry market-place JustClean announces a joint campaign with MENA's ride-hailing app Careem
JustClean, the GCC's leading laundry technology company, announced their joint campaign with Careem, the #1 ride-hailing app in the greater MENA region. Careem and JustClean, both focusing on convenience to their users...
Tamkeen boosts Bahraini entrepreneurs through their latest intensive summer training session held in the U.S
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Well if this didn't just make my day as it crossed my desk about 5 minutes ago.
My absolute admiration for Dallas Green, aka City & Colour shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but throw him on stage with someone as talented as Pink and let them loose duetting a song as amazing as "What Makes A Man", and you have something truly special!
MASSIVE props to YouTube user AxelJackson for putting together this multi-angle montage.
Watch it, absorb it, enjoy it.


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In the legal profession, a Syllabus is a preliminary section of a court ruling that outlines the core facts and issues of the case and the path that the case has taken prior to reaching the present court.

Methodology
Most legal opinions begin with a syllabus. While the syllabi act as summaries of the cases, they are not considered to be part of the actual decisions. Thus, future cases cannot cite them as precedential to their arguments.

References

Judicial legal terminology

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@extends(config('ezelnet-frontend-module.views.design_management.layout'))

@section('title')
    {!! lmcTrans('ezelnet-frontend-module/admin.boxed.index') !!}
@endsection

@section('page-title')

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        {!! lmcTrans('ezelnet-frontend-module/admin.boxed.index_description') !!}

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@section('css')
    @parent
    {{-- Jquery Mini Color Picker --}}
    {!! Html::style('vendor/laravel-modules-core/assets/global/plugins/jquery-minicolors/jquery.minicolors.css') !!}
    {{-- /Jquery Mini Color Picker --}}

    {{-- Datatable Css --}}
    {!! Html::style('vendor/laravel-modules-core/assets/global/plugins/datatables/datatables.min.css') !!}
    {!! Html::style('vendor/laravel-modules-core/assets/global/plugins/datatables/plugins/bootstrap/datatables.bootstrap.css') !!}
    {{-- /Datatable Css --}}

    {{-- Bootstrap Datepicker Css --}}
    {!! Html::style('vendor/laravel-modules-core/assets/global/plugins/bootstrap-datepicker/css/bootstrap-datepicker3.min.css') !!}
    {{-- /Bootstrap Datepicker Css --}}

    {{-- File Input Css --}}
    {!! Html::style('vendor/laravel-modules-core/assets/global/plugins/jcrop/css/jquery.Jcrop.min.css') !!}
    {!! Html::style('vendor/laravel-modules-core/assets/pages/css/image-crop.css') !!}
    {!! Html::style('vendor/laravel-modules-core/assets/global/plugins/bootstrap-fileinput/css/fileinput.min.css') !!}
    {{-- /File Input Css --}}
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    @parent

@endsection

@section('content')
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        {{-- Table Portlet Title and Actions --}}

                    {!! lmcTrans('ezelnet-frontend-module/admin.boxed.index') !!}

            {{-- Nav Tabs --}}

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                        {!! lmcTrans('ezelnet-frontend-module/admin.fields.design_management.configs') !!}

            {{-- /Nav Tabs --}}

        {{-- /Table Portlet Title and Actions --}}

        {{-- Table Portlet Body --}}

            {{-- Error Messages --}}
            @include('laravel-modules-core::partials.error_message')
            {{-- /Error Messages --}}

            {{-- Tab Contents --}}

                            @include('laravel-modules-core::partials.common.indexActions', [
                                'module'    => 'boxed',
                                'fast_add'  => true,
                                'add'       => true,
                                'tools'     => false
                            ])

                        {{-- Table Actions --}}
                        @include('laravel-modules-core::partials.common.indexTableActions', [
                            'actions'   => ['publish','not_publish','destroy']
                        ])
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                        {{-- DataTable --}}

                                    {{-- Datatable Group Action Column --}}
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                                     {!! lmcTrans('ezelnet-frontend-module/admin.fields.design_management.photo') !!}
                                     {!! lmcTrans('ezelnet-frontend-module/admin.fields.design_management.mini_photo') !!}
                                     {!! lmcTrans('ezelnet-frontend-module/admin.fields.design_management.title') !!}
                                     {!! trans('laravel-modules-core::admin.ops.status') !!}
                                     {!! trans('laravel-modules-core::admin.fields.created_at') !!}
                                     {!! trans('laravel-modules-core::admin.ops.action') !!}

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                                    {{-- Datatable Row Detail Column --}}

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                                        </select>

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                                        @include('laravel-modules-core::partials.common.datatables.filterActions')

                                {{-- /Datatable Filter --}}

                        {{-- /DataTable --}}

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                        'method'    => 'POST',
                        'url'       => lmbRoute('admin.boxed.mainUpdate'),
                        'class'     => 'form-horizontal form-bordered'
                    ]) !!}
                    @include('laravel-modules-core::partials.form.actions', ['type' => 'top'])
                    @include('laravel-modules-core::design_management.boxed.partials.main_form')
                    @include('laravel-modules-core::partials.form.actions', ['type' => 'fluid'])
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    {{-- /Table Portlet --}}

    {{-- Create and Edit modal --}}
    @include('laravel-modules-core::partials.common.datatables.modal', [
        'includes' => [
            'design_management.business.partials.form'        => [
                'columns'           => false,
                'helpBlockAfter'    => true
            ]
        ]
    ])
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II-VI shrugs off Covid impact as sales and bookings surge
Sales of photonics components for datacom, telecom, and 3D sensing grow fast as the digital transformation accelerates.
Finisar optical transceiver
II-VI, now one of the world's largest providers of optics and photonics products, has posted record sales revenues of $746 million for the three months that ended June 30.
Well in excess of the $650 million-$700 million range predicted by the company back in May, the result means that II-VI registered sales of $2.38 billion in its latest fiscal year, up from $1.36 billion a year ago.
While that largely reflects the acquisition of major communications component specialist Finisar last September, the Pittsburgh-headquartered company reported a surge in demand for parts in new and upgraded networks as the world responded to the Covid-19 pandemic.
CEO Chuck Mattera told an investor call discussing the latest results: "As the digital transformation accelerated, we achieved a 25 per cent increase sequentially in the communications market, which drove the majority of our growth."
With the Finisar integration said to be progressing faster than expected, the combination is also improving underlying profitability, with II-VI generating cash flow of nearly $300 million in the latest fiscal year - up from $178 million previously.
Sales of VCSEL arrays used in smart phones and other devices for 3D sensing applications rose at an even faster rate, with full-year revenues for these products well ahead of expectations.
The bounce in demand means that II-VI now has an order backlog standing just shy of $1 billion, with some capacity constraints now apparent.
"Our wafer fabs are quite busy," Mattera told investors. "And our opportunity to sell lasers at the moment is exceeding our ability to make them. And so we're doing something about that...we're focused on capacity expansions, but we're also working diligently on productivity efficiency."
The CEO predicted that the investment would put II-VI in a position to capture around a 40 per cent share of the merchant market for indium phosphide (InP) laser devices by 2022, worth an estimated $400 million.
Commenting on the company's innovation pipeline, chief strategy officer Giovanni Barbarossa suggested that forthcoming upgrades to higher-speed optical links would favor vertically integrated companies such as II-VI.
"We have stepped up our investments in wafer-level integration platforms, including silicon photonics, and have significantly increased our investment in integrated circuit technology, which we believe is critical to our road map and competitiveness," he told investors.
Industrial lasers: signs of recovery
While communications-related sales now account for more than 70 per cent of II-VI revenues, the company remains highly diversified in terms of the number of market sectors it sells into.
The industrial sector - previously a much more significant chunk of the company's turnover - delivered sales of around $70 million in the latest quarter, with Mattera saying that there were "encouraging signs" of a recovery in industrial lasers, led by customers in China.
Elsewhere, demand in the semiconductor equipment sector, where II-VI provides specialist diamond optics for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, remains strong, while the company's life sciences division saw bookings double, partly the result of Covid-19 testing requirements.
II-VI stock (past 15 years)
With that in mind, Mattera and his executive team have pencilled in revenues of somewhere between $700 million and $750 million for the September quarter.
• Despite the positive report, II-VI's stock dropped in value slightly following the update. However, at just under $47 in early trading August 17, that valuation remains close to record highs for the company in more than three decades on the Nasdaq, and equates to a market capitalization of just under $5 billion.
Lumentum and Coherent merger to create photonics industry giant
Merger back on as Cisco and Acacia agree higher price
Claims and counterclaims as Acacia looks to call off Cisco merger
Aeva adds $200M to listing fund
Teledyne lines up $8BN FLIR acquisition
II-VI
II-VI completes Finisar acquisition
II-VI plans to raise more than $750M with twin stock offering
II-VI ramps output of diagnostic testing parts to battle Covid-19
II-VI surges after confident outlook

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import sbt.Keys._
import sbt._
import com.typesafe.sbt.SbtSite.site
import com.typesafe.sbt.site.SphinxSupport.Sphinx
import pl.project13.scala.sbt.JmhPlugin
import sbtunidoc.Plugin.UnidocKeys._
import sbtunidoc.Plugin.{ScalaUnidoc, unidocSettings}
import scoverage.ScoverageKeys

object Util extends Build {
  val branch = Process("git" :: "rev-parse" :: "--abbrev-ref" :: "HEAD" :: Nil).!!.trim
  val suffix = if (branch == "master") "" else "-SNAPSHOT"

  val libVersion = "6.43.0" + suffix
  val zkVersion = "3.5.0-alpha"
  val zkClientVersion = "0.0.81"
  val zkGroupVersion = "0.0.92"
  val zkDependency = "org.apache.zookeeper" % "zookeeper" % zkVersion excludeAll(
    ExclusionRule("com.sun.jdmk", "jmxtools"),
    ExclusionRule("com.sun.jmx", "jmxri"),
    ExclusionRule("javax.jms", "jms")
  )
  val slf4jVersion = "1.7.21"
  val jacksonVersion = "2.8.4"

  val guavaLib = "com.google.guava" % "guava" % "19.0"
  val caffeineLib = "com.github.ben-manes.caffeine" % "caffeine" % "2.3.4"
  val jsr305Lib = "com.google.code.findbugs" % "jsr305" % "2.0.1"
  val scalacheckLib = "org.scalacheck" %% "scalacheck" % "1.13.4" % "test"
  val slf4jLib = "org.slf4j" % "slf4j-api" % slf4jVersion

  val sharedSettings = Seq(
    version := libVersion,
    organization := "com.twitter",
    scalaVersion := "2.12.1",
    crossScalaVersions := Seq("2.11.8", "2.12.1"),
    // Workaround for a scaladoc bug which causes it to choke on empty classpaths.
    unmanagedClasspath in Compile += Attributed.blank(new java.io.File("doesnotexist")),
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
      "junit" % "junit" % "4.8.1" % "test",
      "org.mockito" % "mockito-all" % "1.10.19" % "test",
      "org.scalatest" %% "scalatest" % "3.0.0" % "test"
    ),

    ScoverageKeys.coverageHighlighting := true,

    scalacOptions := Seq(
      // Note: Add -deprecation when deprecated methods are removed
      "-target:jvm-1.8",
      "-unchecked",
      "-feature",
      "-encoding", "utf8",
      // Needs -missing-interpolator due to https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-8761
      "-Xlint:-missing-interpolator"
    ),

    // Note: Use -Xlint rather than -Xlint:unchecked when TestThriftStructure
    // warnings are resolved
    javacOptions ++= Seq("-Xlint:unchecked", "-source", "1.8", "-target", "1.8"),
    javacOptions in doc := Seq("-source", "1.8"),

    // This is bad news for things like com.twitter.util.Time
    parallelExecution in Test := false,

    // Sonatype publishing
    publishArtifact in Test := false,
    pomIncludeRepository := { _ => false },
    publishMavenStyle := true,
    autoAPIMappings := true,
    apiURL := Some(url("https://twitter.github.io/util/docs/")),
    pomExtra :=
      <url>https://github.com/twitter/util</url>
      <licenses>
        <license>
          <name>Apache License, Version 2.0</name>
          <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0</url>
        </license>
      </licenses>
      <scm>
        <url>git@github.com:twitter/util.git</url>
        <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:twitter/util.git</connection>
      </scm>
      <developers>
        <developer>
          <id>twitter</id>
          <name>Twitter Inc.</name>
          <url>https://www.twitter.com/</url>
        </developer>
      </developers>,
    publishTo <<= version { (v: String) =>
      val nexus = "https://oss.sonatype.org/"
      if (v.trim.endsWith("SNAPSHOT"))
        Some("snapshots" at nexus + "content/repositories/snapshots")
      else
        Some("releases"  at nexus + "service/local/staging/deploy/maven2")
    }
  )

  lazy val util = Project(
    id = "util",
    base = file("."),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings ++
      unidocSettings  ++ Seq(
        unidocProjectFilter in (ScalaUnidoc, unidoc) := inAnyProject -- inProjects(utilBenchmark)
      )
  ).aggregate(
    utilFunction, utilRegistry, utilCore, utilCodec, utilCollection, utilCache, utilDoc, utilReflect,
    utilLint, utilLogging, utilSlf4jApi, utilSlf4jJulBridge, utilTest, utilThrift, utilHashing, utilJvm, utilZk,
    utilZkTest, utilClassPreloader, utilBenchmark, utilApp, utilEvents, utilSecurity, utilStats, utilTunable
  )

  lazy val utilApp = Project(
    id = "util-app",
    base = file("util-app"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-app",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
      guavaLib)
  ).dependsOn(utilCore, utilRegistry)

  lazy val utilBenchmark = Project(
    id = "util-benchmark",
    base = file("util-benchmark"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings ++ JmhPlugin.projectSettings
  )
  .enablePlugins(JmhPlugin)
  .settings(
    name := "util-benchmark"
  ).dependsOn(utilCore, utilEvents, utilHashing, utilJvm, utilStats)

  lazy val utilCache = Project(
    id = "util-cache",
    base = file("util-cache"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-cache",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(guavaLib, caffeineLib, jsr305Lib)
  ).dependsOn(utilCore)

  lazy val utilClassPreloader = Project(
    id = "util-class-preloader",
    base = file("util-class-preloader"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-class-preloader"
  ).dependsOn(utilCore)

  lazy val utilCodec = Project(
    id = "util-codec",
    base = file("util-codec"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-codec"
  ).dependsOn(utilCore)

  lazy val utilCollection = Project(
    id = "util-collection",
    base = file("util-collection"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-collection",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
      guavaLib,
      scalacheckLib
    )
  ).dependsOn(utilCore % "compile->compile;test->test")

  lazy val utilCore = Project(
    id = "util-core",
    base = file("util-core"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-core",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
      guavaLib % "test",
      scalacheckLib,
      "org.scala-lang" % "scala-reflect" % scalaVersion.value,
      "org.scala-lang.modules" %% "scala-parser-combinators" % "1.0.4"
    ),
    resourceGenerators in Compile <+=
      (resourceManaged in Compile, name, version) map { (dir, name, ver) =>
        val file = dir / "com" / "twitter" / name / "build.properties"
        val buildRev = Process("git" :: "rev-parse" :: "HEAD" :: Nil).!!.trim
        val buildName = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd-HHmmss").format(new java.util.Date)
        val contents = s"name=$name\nversion=$ver\nbuild_revision=$buildRev\nbuild_name=$buildName"
        IO.write(file, contents)
        Seq(file)
      }
  ).dependsOn(utilFunction)

  lazy val utilDoc = Project(
    id = "util-doc",
    base = file("doc"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++ site.settings ++ site.sphinxSupport() ++ sharedSettings ++ Seq(
      scalacOptions in doc <++= version.map(v => Seq("-doc-title", "Util", "-doc-version", v)),
      includeFilter in Sphinx := ("*.html" | "*.png" | "*.svg" | "*.js" | "*.css" | "*.gif" | "*.txt")
  ))

  lazy val utilEvents = Project(
    id = "util-events",
    base = file("util-events"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-events"
  ).dependsOn(utilApp)

  lazy val utilFunction = Project(
    id = "util-function",
    base = file("util-function"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-function"
  )

  lazy val utilReflect = Project(
    id = "util-reflect",
    base = file("util-reflect"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-reflect",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
      "asm"   % "asm"         % "3.3.1",
      "asm"   % "asm-util"    % "3.3.1",
      "asm"   % "asm-commons" % "3.3.1",
      "cglib" % "cglib"       % "2.2.2"
    )
  ).dependsOn(utilCore)

  lazy val utilHashing = Project(
    id = "util-hashing",
    base = file("util-hashing"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-hashing",
    libraryDependencies += scalacheckLib
  ).dependsOn(utilCore % "test")

  lazy val utilJvm = Project(
    id = "util-jvm",
    base = file("util-jvm"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-jvm"
  ).dependsOn(utilApp, utilCore, utilTest % "test")

  lazy val utilLint = Project(
    id = "util-lint",
    base = file("util-lint"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-lint"
  )

  lazy val utilLogging = Project(
    id = "util-logging",
    base = file("util-logging"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-logging"
  ).dependsOn(utilCore, utilApp, utilStats)

  lazy val utilSlf4jApi = Project(
    id = "util-slf4j-api",
    base = file("util-slf4j-api"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-slf4j-api",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(slf4jLib)
  ).dependsOn(utilCore % "test")

  lazy val utilSlf4jJulBridge = Project(
    id = "util-slf4j-jul-bridge",
    base = file("util-slf4j-jul-bridge"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-slf4j-jul-bridge",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
      slf4jLib,
      "org.slf4j" % "jul-to-slf4j" % slf4jVersion)
  ).dependsOn(utilCore, utilSlf4jApi)

  lazy val utilRegistry = Project(
    id = "util-registry",
    base = file("util-registry"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-registry"
  ).dependsOn(utilCore)

  lazy val utilSecurity = Project(
    id = "util-security",
    base = file("util-security"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-security"
  ).dependsOn(utilCore, utilLogging)

  lazy val utilStats = Project(
    id = "util-stats",
    base = file("util-stats"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-stats",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(caffeineLib, jsr305Lib, scalacheckLib, guavaLib % "test")
  ).dependsOn(utilCore, utilLint)

  lazy val utilTest = Project(
    id = "util-test",
    base = file("util-test"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-test",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
      "org.scalatest" %% "scalatest" % "3.0.0",
      "org.mockito" % "mockito-all" % "1.10.19"
    )
  ).dependsOn(utilCore, utilLogging)

  lazy val utilThrift = Project(
    id = "util-thrift",
    base = file("util-thrift"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-thrift",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
      "com.twitter"                % "libthrift"        % "0.5.0-7",
      slf4jLib % "provided",
      "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-core"     % jacksonVersion,
      "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-databind" % jacksonVersion
    )
  ).dependsOn(utilCodec)

  lazy val utilTunable = Project(
    id = "util-tunable",
    base = file("util-tunable"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-tunable",
    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
      "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-core" % jacksonVersion,
      "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-databind" % jacksonVersion,
      "com.fasterxml.jackson.module" %% "jackson-module-scala" % jacksonVersion exclude("com.google.guava", "guava")
    )
  ).dependsOn(utilApp, utilCore)

  lazy val utilZk = Project(
    id = "util-zk",
    base = file("util-zk"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-zk",
    libraryDependencies += zkDependency
  ).dependsOn(utilCore, utilCollection, utilLogging)

  lazy val utilZkTest = Project(
    id = "util-zk-test",
    base = file("util-zk-test"),
    settings = Defaults.coreDefaultSettings ++
      sharedSettings
  ).settings(
    name := "util-zk-test",
    libraryDependencies += zkDependency
  ).dependsOn(utilCore % "test")

}


While we have seen before that customer experience management technologies are becoming increasingly sought after, running parallel to their development is the development of e-commerce suites that are increasingly sophisticated, that provide multi-touchpoint solutions and that are becoming increasingly agile, according to new Forrester research.
As in other consumer software spaces, the pack is led by a small number of vendors, but according to the recently published "Forrester Wave for e-Commerce 2012 Q3" their position as market leaders is far from secure.
At the moment, the pack is led by IBM, hybris, Oracle and Demandware, but Forrester evaluated ten vendors in detail after applying a list of 75 criteria to an ever-growing market, and says that even though there are four leaders, the other six vendors are snapping at their heels, with a whole bunch of other vendors that didn't make it into the Wave, jostling to be included.
And with increasing volatility in this market, it is likely that in the coming 12 months there will be considerable changes. In a world where the enterprise customer is king, vendors have to respond to expectations around online, mobile and social interaction capabilities.
Where they don't respond to these client demands, and where technologies become outdated, less effective and expensive to maintain, those that provide better features, more effective business tools and solution flexibility will become tomorrow's top performers.
Generally speaking, vendors in the e-commerce space need to provide strong site management, content management, order management and merchandizing tools to win clients.
So who are the "significant" software providers in this space, according to Forrester? In alphabetical order they are: Demandware, Digital River, hybris, IBM, Intershop, Magento, Micros-Retail, Oracle (ATG), RedPrairie and SAP.
They are operating in a market where traditional retailers are under pressure to demonstrate even single digit growth for in-store trade, as more consumers are moving to online retailers.
In these circumstances many retailers have also turned online with 56% of companies stating that they will be spending 5% more on e-commerce technologies, and 18% saying that they will increase it by as much as 20%.
Cross-touchpoint solutions: These are solutions that support retail, but also support marketing and service capabilities across all customer touchpoints. To achieve this, vendors must provide consistent platform capabilities to manage products, orders and customer data across sites, mobile sites, and applications and call center interfaces.
Increased agility: In the face of an increasingly geographically and culturally fragmented internet -- referred to here as the Splinternet -- businesses are finding it increasingly difficult to market, sell and service customers across it. Even with the rise of HTML5 that will make the design of these experiences easier, it remains a challenge.
Better order management: Retailers are under pressure now to provide better order management capabilities, which are now considered critical to driving customer experiences. The technologies also need to come with flexible integration with a diverse supply chain, and customer service interfaces.
Support for multiple businesses and regions: Enterprises are increasingly looking for technologies that provide infrastructure to support multi-sites and multi-brand to businesses. This trend enables more specific and targeted marketing opportunities for customers.
IBM: Big Blue has been very busy in this space having bought Sterling Commerce, Coremetrics and Unica, and with which it has launched an aggressive product development strategy.
Oracle: Already a major player the CRM space, Oracle has bought ATG, Endeca, RightNow Technologies and FatWire Solutions. It has used these products to clarify marketing and partner messages along with product portfolio rationalization.
Micros-Retail: Micros-Retail bought Fry Multimedia, integrating the OCP product into Micros and splitting off Fry as a design shop.
Demandware: Demandware launched an initial public offering, offering its SaaS business model and product strategy up for all to scrutinize and evaluate.
There were other acquisitions too, but these were the principal ones. According to Forrester, it's not finished yet either. It says while there may not be much to buy, we can expect to see new partnerships and changing relationships as vendors responds to the need to become multi touchpoint solutions providing technology across all needs.
The result has been considerable evolution in platforms over the past two years since the last e-commerce Wave research. The evolution has been driven by customers' changing needs with dramatic improvements and advances in the product portfolio of those vendors that were evaluated.
IBM, hybris, Oracle, and Demandware lead the pack. IBM, hybris, Oracle are currently offering strong e-commerce capabilities as well as providing support for mult itouchpoints and multichannel requirements along with strong business management tools. The Sterling acquisition has put IBM in the lead in the order management space, while, hybris and Oracle are less strong here. Demandware offers a Saas solution with strong multi-site and merchandizing tools, but is still in the early days of development of an order management solution.
Micros-Retail, Intershop, RedPrairie, and Digital River: All have strong e-commerce capabilities with multi-touch and multichannel capabilities of varying strengths. While they all offer moderately effective business management capabilities on top of this, there is considerable variation in abilities across product catalog management, WCM, order management and support for globalization. Micros-Retail offers strong mechanizing tools along with substantial site and content management tools. Intershop has made significant progress in this area, but is still well behind the leaders. RedPrairie has combined Escalate Retail Blue Martini product with its order management but is still waiting to see the returns for its investment in the e-commerce system.
SAP and Magneto: While able to provide specific solutions for the right clients, they are still lagging behind the others in the B2C e-commerce space. SAP is unique in this analysis as its products are not meant to stand alone as a commerce platform. Instead it aims to help SAP's ERP/ CRM customers extend those products to include e-commerce capabilities. However, it still needs third-party CMS tools and lacks overall competitive capabilities.Magneto provides an open source solution in the Community Edition targeting small businesses and has had considerable success in this space. Its enterprise edition remains geared towards the small business space too with the extensions of bigger clients not hitting the mark.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. This is a quickly evolving space and like all other similar reports, Forrester recommends looking at all the vendors listed, and not just those that have made it into the Leaders segment.


Despite the force of Sunday's afternoon rain showers, a collection of musicians played to a packed house at D'latte in Greenport, where they paid tribute to vibraphone jazz great Teddy Charles.
Mr. Charles, born Theodore Charles Cohen, died April 16 at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. He was 84.
Many of those who attended regular jazz jam sessions at Mr. Charles' Riverhead residence were on hand at the event, including his vibraphone student of six years, Max Feldschuh. Mr. Feldschuh said when he'd first met Mr. Charles in 2006, he'd been a piano player but made a switch to the "vibe" because of Mr. Charles' influence.
"It's going to be a totally different scene without him around," he said.
John Mosca, a New York City trombone player who knew, played and recorded with the man, said Mr. Charles had agreed with him only weeks before, to play this summer's Charlie Parker festival.
"The people organizing the festival agreed it would be a good idea for someone to play who actually played with Mr. Parker," Mr. Mosca said.


Casual viewers might see the names Russell Crowe and Renee Zellewegger and think that they're the heavy hitters of Ron Howard's boxing biopic. You know better than that though - Paul Giamatti is the real hook here. The man who played King John earlier this year in 'Ironclad' (click for Ced's review), landed an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor with his role as Joe Gould.
Watch on BBC iPlayer until 00:44, Sunday 29 May '11. Purchase on DVD at Amazon.co.uk.


It has been a very busy week for the Dominican Community as a number of guests have come and gone. Of course, last weekend, we were blessed to have the novice community and their Novice Master, Fr. Anthony Rosevear. It was truly a blessed visit and we enjoyed hosting them for the 5 days they stayed in Tucson. No sooner had they left than the Provincial of the Southern Dominican Province, Fr. Chris Eggleton, arrived to have a Provincial Visitation with Fr. Bob Burns, who lives in our community but remains a member of the Southern Province. Again, we enjoyed Fr. Chris' presence and he enjoyed his time in our community. He shared with me that he had not laughed in a long time the way he did at the dinner table with our community. That was a beautiful affirmation of our community life and a real air of contentment that exists among the Dominicans here. As Fr. Chris leaves today (Friday) we are blessed to welcome Sr. Carolyn Marie Monahan who is here to make a Congregational Visitation of the Sisters' community. She will be here through the weekend.
Lent begins Wednesday. I want to say a huge thank you to all those who participated in the Lenten Reflection Booklet project. It will be ready to pick up on Wednesday.
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Locks on our bridges: Critical and generative lenses on open education
Published on: June 23, 2017 June 23, 2017 Author: Amy Collier Comment: 0
[These are my notes from a keynote I gave at Plymouth State University on June 1, 2017, as part of their ATI Camp. The video of the presentation is available here (also, don't miss Rajiv's and Robin's talks). This talk is based on an open access paper Jen Ross and I published earlier this year in Open Praxis.
The Pont des Arts in Paris. Lovers from around the world placed locks on the bridge, often inscribed with their names, to signal the eternal nature of their love. It's a romantic gesture…full of hope and dreams…once you lock your love onto the bridge and throw away the key (I imagine a myriad of keys at the bottom of the Seine river), your love will last forever.
I had the opportunity to see the Pont des Arts a few years ago on a family trip to Paris. Here is a picture of my son checking out the thousands of locks. I'm fascinated by the stories of things and, well, locks on bridges tell a lot of stories. Some locks were decorated, extravagant; some were simple and humble. Some had dates, wishes written on them. Some were nameless.
As much as I love the stories that can be told about the locks, there is a darker side to the locks on the Pont des Arts. You see, as more and more people began participating in this ritual, the bridge began to wear out under the weight of the locks. As the organization No Love Locks says: "Our bridges can no longer withstand your gestures of love. Set them free by declaring your love with #lovewithoutlocks."
Eventually, parts of the bridge collapsed into the river. When the Parisian authorities finally removed the locks, they removed somewhere between 45 tons – 65 tons of locks from the bridge.
Now it would be pretty straightforward for us to draw a connection between the unintended consequences of closed/locked practices in education to the locks on our bridges. The weight of the costs of education, as Rajiv talked about in his keynote yesterday, may place crushing pressure on our students and cause them to experience significant long-term damage (financial and otherwise). This makes a lot of sense to me—students are experiencing heavy financial pressures and it seems that those will only increase in the current administration. So yes, please start removing those locks. And if this analogy is helpful in your discussions of open education on your campuses, by all means use it.
But to me, the story of the Pont des Arts is also a story about unintended consequences. Despite our goals, our dreams, the locks have unintended and damaging consequences. The point of my presentation today is to also look at the unintended consequences of openness and to take a critical stance on the ways openness and closedness are framed in opposition. As someone who was working at Stanford during the MOOC craze a few years ago, I feel confident saying that the word "open" has become a way to describe a whole range of digital practices, some of which could be seen as antithetical to the vision advanced by early advocates of openness. Proponents of openness have struggled with the need to make openness inclusive while also taking a stance against forms of openness that may work against their values. The term open, when framed only against the idea of closed, creates a situation where a whole range of things that could be considered open are deemed closed and a whole range of things that are considered closed are deemed as open. The key is that, within the notion of openness, there is a lot happening around our values, our ideologies, our politics. What we believe the state of the world and of education and of students should be.
Audrey Watters, at a keynote at OpenCon a few years ago, said this:
"We act — at our peril — as if 'open' is politically neutral, let alone politically good or progressive. Indeed, we sometimes use the word to stand in place of a politics of participatory democracy. We presume that, because something is 'open' that it necessarily contains all the conditions for equality or freedom or justice. We use 'open' as though it is free of ideology, ignoring how much 'openness,' particularly as it's used by technologists, is closely intertwined with 'meritocracy' — this notion, a false one, that 'open' wipes away inequalities, institutions, biases, history, that 'open' 'levels the playing field.'
If we believe in equality, if we believe in participatory democracy and participatory culture, if we believe in people and progressive social change, if we believe in sustainability in all its environmental and economic and psychological manifestations, then we need to do better than slap that adjective 'open' onto our projects and act as though that's sufficient or — and this is hard, I know — even sound."
I don't want to dissuade you from open practices and open educational resources, but I ask to consider the implications of openness and closedness and, rather than think of them as opposites, or solely as part of a spectrum, to consider them as always co-occurring and permeable. I ask you to consider what practices "openness" reinforces, what assumptions, what openness tidies or obscures.
As Edwards (2015) says, "all forms of openness entail forms of closed-ness" (p. 253). Choices around open practices involve "selecting" and "occluding other possibilities" (p. 255) and, therefore, educators cannot claim openness as an educational value in its own right.
But, as Edwards continues: "The question is not whether to make education more open, but what forms of openness and closed-ness are justifiable. To bring to the fore the paradoxical inter-relationship of open–closed-ness is to investigate the micro-practices of education and their powerful effects, the specific forms they take and the possibilities for alternative practices. It is to deconstruct openness as an inherently worthwhile educational goal and bring to the fore explicit questions about the basis upon what specific forms of selectivity and closure are justifiable in particular educational practices, however open."
My main thesis today is this: The opportunity for exploring openness and closedness, and boundary crossing / permeability among between them, provides the opportunity for us to critically question our educational and teaching practices. By adopting openness as an unquestionable or unassailable virtue, we run the risk of missing that opportunity. It would be a mistake to do the exact same things we would do with open practices as we would do with closed practices. Instead, we should explore how critical lenses like complexity theory and not-yetness, a term that my colleague Jen Ross and I coined a few years ago, can help us to approach openness with attention to issues of multiplicity, uncertainty, and transition –or what we can "boundary crossing" between openness and closedness. There is truly exciting and transformative work we can do as we critically explore openness and closedness.
In a recent paper that my colleague Jen Ross and I wrote, we noted several critiques of the open movement and how many of those critiques help us to think more broadly and creatively about what our goals are when we pursue openness. Today, I want to highlight three key critical concerns that counter a utopian view of openness: 1) there are definitional issues with openness, and often a false binary is established between "open" and "closed." (issues of definition also lead to problematic "openwashing" – the issues of branded digital content); 2) an overemphasis on access to content homogenizes learners and their contexts; 3) open educational practice does not attend sufficiently to issues of power and inclusion.
Let's break these down.
1) Definitional issues. There is a false binary is established between "open" and "closed"—I have already discussed these a bit in my intro. These issues often have at their heart a tendency to frame openness as "good," as in the statement made by several open advocates that "the opposite of open is broken." There is a risk of foreclosing conversations about the a deeper, and more political, goals of openness.
Wikipedia is often held us as the ultimate success story for openness. And, to be fair, Wikipedia is pretty impressive. And, as Rajiv pointed out yesterday, working in Wikipedia can be a great way to give students voice and agency in the digital spaces they sometimes inhabit. In that vein, you could consider (and I think we mostly would consider) editing Wikipedia to be part of open practices. But, if we stop there we might miss to dig deeper into this open practice.
Wikipedia is driven by a need for consensus. An authoritative and accurate voice. In the many processes that Wikipedia editors undertake to provide authoritative articles, consensus drives out inclusivity, multiple voices, personality, nuance, creativity. And, in driving those things out, it becomes a lot less "open" than we might have originally thought. As Mike Caulfield writes: "Ten of thousands of hours are spent editing Wikipedia's top articles, but for the most part they aren't spent coming up with new ways to explain things, or updating articles with new research. They are spent are the never-ending pulping out of voice, perspective, bias, and differing opinion about what belongs in the article. Only a sliver of writing – even good writing – makes it through." It's not that Wikipedia is "closed" either. It has been an impressive model of leveraging communities to put forward and handle a lot of information. The issue is that simply branding Wikipedia as "open" can foreclose conversations about its areas/practices of openness and its areas/practices of closedness.
The definitional issues with open are how we end up with openwashing—a term that Audrey Watters defines as "having an appearance of open-source and open-licensing for marketing purposes, while continuing proprietary practices." It's akin to greenwashing—where businesses claim to be "green" because they make "green choices" that are about appearing eco-friendly while really being about the bottom line. You know, for a while there, lots of educational technology companies were going "open." What this meant is that a tech-related company, let's call it Pearson, would provide a platform for accessing and "reusing" branded content. Funny enough, when I look for Pearson's Open Learning initiative now…<crickets>
I'm not arguing that we should stringently define open and call everything that doesn't fit that definition "closed." That would be a mistake. We could waste a lot of effort building openness rubrics for how well something fits the 5Rs discussed yesterday. We could spend a lot of time judging the merits of this so-called open thing versus that so-called open thing. The point here is that we should look carefully at the things we call "open." When we recognize that our practices simultaneously include openness and closedness, we talk less about definitions and more about why we are doing what we're doing. As Gert Biesta likes to say, the for whom and for what of openness. This gets us more to the political and value-laden work of openness.
2) Overemphasis on access to content can homogenize learners and their contexts. This is perhaps the most common critique of open education, that it often focuses too much on content and delivery of content. If we believe that education is more than a delivery of content, then an exclusive focus on the content of open education and how accessible and affordable it is gives too much weight to instrumental goals of content creation and dissemination. In the dominant discourse about openness, open content and Open Educational Resources in particular embed values of access, standardization, and deinstitutionalization. Their "emphasis on replication" presumes the uniformity of learners (Knox, 2013a, p. 29).
Mike Caulfield talked about this in a fantastic blog post titled Simon's Watchmakers and the Future of Courseware. "Our architectures tend to emphasize stability (present usefulness) over the intermediate nature of such things." "As an example," he writes, "we often choose formats which privilege sharing (present usefulness) at the expense of remix (intermediacy)…. In the quest to share things in "open" formats, providers had shared PowerPoints in PDF, a widely readable format that increased shareability at the expense of remix." I think the emphasis on content in the open education movement points to this desire for stability and present usefulness, and the apprehension about or deprioritization of openness that is not content and learners who are diverse (intermediacy)
Jen and I wrote in our paper: "It would raise the question of what, precisely, is transformed or transformative about OERs, and might prompt us to view them as aligned with unhelpful "politics of complexity reduction" (Gough, 2012, p. 47). As McArthur (2012) puts it, complexity reduction leads to "bad" rather than "virtuous" mess: "Seeking to force the inherently messy into a respectable tidy form can result in something that distorts, hides or falsifies the actual social world" (p. 421). Promises of simplicity—access, standardization, deinstitutionalization—come at a cost." To focus on the diversity of learners and away from the instrumental goals of education would make openness and its goals more open to interpretation and to contestation.
3) Open educational resources and practices may not attend sufficiently to issues of power and inclusion.
There is a view that the main issue facing open education is how to separate content from elitist, expensive, restrictive, or exclusionary processes and make it more widely and freely available. How to make more free and open textbooks. How to publish in open access ways.
However, critiques of Open Education ask us to question whether our open practices "reproduce historically asymmetric power relations" (Olakulehin & Singh, 2013, p. 33) in the same way our so-called closed ones do. Amiel and Soares (2016) observe the need for advocates of openness to be vigilant: to avoid constantly replicating inequalities in terms of those who produce, develop skills and revenue, and actively participate in the commons, and those who are passive observers mostly assimilating the offerings that are made available (p. 1).
A study by Perryman and de los Arcos, for example, found that there were significant barriers for women in the global south to adopt, remix, or create open educational resources—i.e., to participate in the open education movement. They wrote: "Our analysis of female survey respondents in developed and developing countries shows significant differences in women's motivation to use OER and how they engage with OER, while exposing technology as an acute dividing factor affecting OEP and emphasizing the impact of OER in widening the range of teaching methods employed by educators in the Global South." In their conclusion, Perryman and de los Arcos point out that better access to technology and open resources would only slightly ameliorate the problems. They added: "More specifically, any increase in women's empowerment through openness (and ICT engagement more broadly) needs to follow, or parallel, the removal of other, micro-level, meso-level and macrolevel (Potnis, 2015) factors connected with gender inequality such as lack of financial autonomy, low levels of literacy, child marriage, early motherhood, gender-based violence, traditional seclusion practices, the favouring of boys in families' education investment, and the gendered division of household labour—all identified by UNESCO (2015, p.26) as amongst the 'structural barriers and entrenched discriminatory social norms' that impede women's empowerment.'"
The concern, too, is not just the power issues unaddressed in students' use of open educational resources, but also the power issues inherent in faculty labor and agency in the creation and/or reuse of open educational resources. Sheila MacNeill said: "There is a cost to open-ness…Some institutions have a lot of money to spend in adding formal, open spaces, in tending their flock and developing open as part of their mainstream priorities. They tend to have the capacity to subsume and develop open research initiatives. Some may be selling the proverbial family silver to keep up. Others, mine included, don't have that luxury and are looking at a strategic level to invest, maintain and grow different parts of their garden and the staff who maintain it."
In many cases, the privilege of creating OERs is often not afforded to people who work with under-resourced and under-represented students, which can lead to the creation of resources that do not address the needs of those students. Think about who the top MOOC providers were. They weren't community colleges, who have a broad access mandate and who serve incredibly diverse populations. They were mostly elite institutions, with resources to create and push out branded content. Morris and Stommel (2014) argue that "openness can function as a form of resistance both within and outside the walls of institutions. But open education is no panacea. Hierarchies must be dismantled—and that dismantling made into part of the process of education—if its potentials are to be realized".
Where do these critiques leave us?
I referenced today's talk as critical, but generative lenses on open education. I believe these critical lenses afford the opportunity to explore really interesting possibilities.
In our paper, my colleague Jen Ross and I proposed that open educational theory and practice needs more attention to issues of multiplicity, uncertainty, and transition—the latter we frame in terms of 'boundary crossings' between openness and closedness. The concept of 'not-yetness', developed to respond to issues of oversimplification in digital education policy and practice, offers an approach to meeting this need. We were resisting the tendency to want to simplify and solve problems with technology. We believe that what makes the use of technology in education so potentially transformative are the ways in that it is not yet fully understood and not yet fully researched. These are characteristics we believe should be embraced.
In the same way, we think not-yetness is a lens that can help us to embrace the complexities of open education. And I agree with Rajiv that this is in large part about agency. It's when we try to simplify and tidy how openness and technology come into our educational environments that we remove teachers' and students' agency. Having students participate in open communities is messy. But that's also where students can really have agency. At Rajiv's suggestion yesterday, I read the excellent article that Miranda Dean wrote about her experiences with open pedagogy. It was a messy experience, was it not? She said this:
"NOW I was getting it. I was linking the Biology to my personal life which was my inspiration and in doing this I found more links (a genetic link) that I continued to explore even further in my next post. It was all starting to come together. I was figuring out ways to upgrade my blog and add my portfolio to it. I spent more time making my blog look nicer. I was having conversations and connections with professionals on my blog and on twitter. It was all making sense. So what changed? My mentality and approach. Just one month ago I was afraid that I was going to fail a course for the first time in my life, and now I'm embracing this course with all of my effort. So what changed? I realized what kind of learner I really am."
Agency.
We believe that not-yetness can be a lens for thinking differently about open education, for including the following perspectives:
Multiplicity & emergence: If we take seriously the idea that all forms of openness entail forms of closedness, then we must recognize that there are many forms of openness; many ways to be open and closed. Not-yetness suggests we diversity and context are undervalued when we understand openness in limited ways. As we create open resources and open practices, think of the many ways and contexts in which it might be used—open the possibility of multiplicity.
Noel Gough wrote: "complexity invites us to understand that many of the processes and activities that shape the worlds we inhabit are open, recursive, organic, nonlinear and emergent. It also invites us to be skeptical of mechanistic and reductionist explanations, which assume that these processes and activities are linear, deterministic and/or predictable and, therefore, that they can be controlled (at least in principle)."
Boundary crossing: Oliver (2015, pp. 8–9) noted that boundary crossing is expected in any social institution, including education, and "instead of trying to establish whether something is 'open or not, the focus should then be on the instances of boundary crossing that take place, and consequently the kinds of "openness" that characterise a system or institution." As Gloria Anzaldua's writings suggest, openness and closedness are in constant tension and in flux, and educators should explore and embrace the complexities that accompany modes of openness. Blurring of boundaries (e.g., between formal and informal learning) and the permeability between those boundaries
Uncertainty: Can we make more, not less, space for taking risks, for emergence and open-endedness? Can we create messiness around authority and authorship? Jen and I argue that:
"digital practices contribute to the fruitful mess that characterises education, casting new light on issues of power, responsibility, sustainability, reach and contact. …a key element of emerging technology is its not-yetness: there is so much we do not know when we engage with these technologies. We must therefore choose to dwell as teachers in [a] state of radical and enduring uncertainty …We need practices that acknowledge and work with complexity to help us stay open to what may be genuinely surprising about what happens when online learning and teaching meets emerging technologies."
I want to share two examples, both from our paper, that we think show the possibilities for openness when we embrace multiplicity, boundary crossing, and uncertainty (you can read more about these examples in the paper). You may see that open-endedness, complexity, risk are pretty integral to these projects as well.
Students engaging agents "beyond the course": Student blogging is a form of openness that can allow for multiplicity, uncertainty, and boundary crossing. Again, I think the key here is agency. We want students to have the opportunities to experiment with identities, to set their own limits on the web, to own and make decisions about their data. Part of the process of developing pedagogies that involve openness is considering how environments and practices can support students to set such limits (which we might productively think of as 'closures'). At Middlebury, we have been helping students develop that agency by doing a domain of one's own project, called MiddCreate.
As part of MiddCreate, we have seen students exploring a multiplicity of voices (political, academic, professional), identities, and connections. It creates risk and uncertainty, inside and outside of classes and curriculum. But it is in the engaging with these uncertainties that we see some pretty amazing student creations.
Federated wiki, wikity: From our paper: "Caulfield proposes a federated wiki as a wiki infrastructure that upends collaboration-by-consensus by allowing an individual to maintain their own copy of a wiki page that they can edit and individually control (Caulfield, 2016b). Unlike traditional wikis, federated wiki pages resolve to multiple servers but remain connected so that individuals' copies stay linked to other copies. Federated wikis allow individuals to manage and control content while also freely sharing the content that they add and manage: a form of boundary crossing.
Beyond the affordances of federated wikis to allow individuals to intentionally navigate between openness and closedness, the use of federated wikis encourages teachers and learners to call into question how openness is shaped by the technologies we use. This, in turn, provokes useful questions about what we exchange for open collaboration and ask us, as teachers and technologists, to be transparent and critical about these choices, and sensitive to the risks and compromises they entail."
I know you have work to do today. I want to encourage you to explore the not-yetness of your open practices. I will offer these three questions as supports for such exploration.
When considering particular forms of openness as part of a pedagogical approach or strategy, educators might ask, perhaps along with their students:
What space is in these practices for distinctiveness, diversity, open-endedness?
How much uncertainty can this approach to openness accommodate?
What closures come along with these practices? What is in the borderlands?
In addressing questions around open-endedness, uncertainty, and boundary crossing, we can create more critical space for our open educational practices, and challenge some of the constraints occasioned by an overemphasis on the content of open education.
I want to end with a quote from Audrey Watters: "What are we going to do when we recognize that "open" is not enough. I hope, that we recognize that what we need is social justice. We need politics, not simply a license. We need politics, not simply technology solutions. We need an ethics of care, of justice, not simply assume that "open" does the work of those for us."
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An application by Doncaster Council for a judicial review into the decision to shut Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) has been rejected in court.
The authority had argued the airport's owners, Peel Group, had not given enough time for a buyer to come forward with a realistic offer.
But Peel Group responded that no viable offer had been made for DSA, so said a judicial review should not be carried out.
The council says it will now focus its efforts on a Compulsory Purchase Order for the site.
Doncaster Mayor, Ros Jones, said: "While I am disappointed in this decision, we knew we had to test Peel's decision legally and although the judge's decision has not fallen on our side, we do not regret taking this to court.
"We have to use every legal tool at our disposal and this was one of them. The other is a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) that the council supported and we will now progress.
"We knew that the judicial review in itself would not have saved the airport as it could not have compelled Peel to reverse their decision to close Doncaster's Airport.
"The only way this will happen is if Peel sell the airport – and the investors we identified are still talking to Peel – or if we are successful in securing a CPO of the airport site and works with the market to secure an operator.
"I remain convinced Doncaster's airport can and should be a success and I remain committed to the fight for Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
"My thoughts as always are with those people who are losing their jobs as a result of Peel's actions and decisions – it did not have to be like this."
South Yorkshire's Mayor, Oliver Coppard, said: "Doncaster Sheffield Airport is an important strategic asset to our region and Doncaster Council were right to use every avenue available to them to stop Peel closing it.
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"We have done everything we can to save DSA, and we will continue to work with Peel and private sector investors keen to reopen our airport, to find a viable path to a new future."
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