U21 Ranking of National Higher Education Systems: a project sponsored by Universitas 21
world is free and open education. Free is an attractive ideal, but free and sustainable is an elusive combination. These efforts are ultimately still dependent on the kindness of philanthropists, volunteers, and legislators. The other face the merchants’ vision is the expansion of education as a privatized commodity provided by for-profit companies. Some open-educational innovators, like Wiley with Flat World Knowledge, are turning to the private sector to sustain innovations. Meanwhile, in investor circles from New York to Silicon Valley, the idea of education as a rich field ripe for disruption is gaining more currency than it’s ever had. (121) 6. The regrettable case of the Afghan German Management College is instructive is this regard. According to the 2011 UNDP Report Case Study: AGMC Business Education via Distance Learning detailing its functioning, ‘The AGMC was inaugurated in June 2006 by a small group of military officers of the Armed Federal Forces of Germany who served the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan’ who saw the need for distance-learning (via Internet), competency based small business training especially for women in rural Afghan villages. Despite the impeccable bona fides of its founders, its innovative nature and non-profit status, it was never able to obtain required accreditation by the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education (due to their requirement that the College have a large resident-learning component at a much higher cost of provision). It has thus been in the process of shutting down operations since the beginning of 2012. (Tim Lehmann, Personal Communication, 1 June, 2012).
How to lie With Statistics
First a very simple but important point about statistics. Statistics cannot be used to establish causation, they can only show correlations. As an example, the governor of a certain state is concerned about the test scores of high school students in the state. One of his aides brings up an interesting statistic: there is a very strong link between student test scores and the taxes paid by the parents of the student. The parents of high scoring students pay more taxes. The aide’s suggestion for increasing student test scores is unusual; sharply increase tax rates. Surely student test scores will follow! The fallacy, of course, is that even though there is a correlation between test scores and parents taxes, there is likely no causal connection. A better explanation is that there is some hidden variable that explains the correlation. In this case the obvious choice is the income of the parents. This determines the taxes paid. And since the quality of high school that a student attends is to a large extent determined by the parent’s income, we see a causal link from parent’s income to both taxes and test scores.
RDF Keyword Search based on Keywords-To-SPARQL Translation
In this paper, we present a summary of our work on RDF keyword search. Given a set of keywords, our method automatically generates a set of candidate SPARQL queries, and their natural language description, to be evaluated on the RDF data graph. We discuss our approach, highlighting current and future directions.