L'objectif est d'analyser le comportement des jeunes testeurs et leur mode d'utilisation de l'application mobile universelle qui doit servir de pivot au dispositif, afin de confirmer les orientations choisies. L'expérimentation permettra également d'avoir un retour sur la présentation et l'éditorialisation des offres sur l'application mobile. Plus...
Normes : la mission Lambert-Boulard prône "un choc de simplification"
Figure emblématique de la lutte contre les excès normatifs qui compliquent l'action locale, Alain Lambert a officiellement présenté, ce 13 septembre, les recommandations de la mission de simplification qu'il a menée à la demande du Premier ministre. Constatant avec son collègue Jean-Claude Boulard – décédé au cours de la mission – que "l'inflation normative" demeure forte, il sonne "la mobilisation générale". Plus...
The Road to Riches?
The Road to Riches?
I have discussed theory before, so it's only fair that I mention this article describing some rebuttals. The theory is the idea that more diverse theories promote economic growth. The rebuttals, in the form of single year styatistics from selected cities, suggest a more traditional path to growth: Cut taxes and slash onerous regulations. More...
IT Titans
E-Learning: Can We Get There From Here
E-Learning: Can We Get There From Here
Rik Hall - who created the WWWDEV mailing list back in 1995, offers a bit of a retrospective. What distracted me was a link to Assiniboine Community College's new website, still a little under construction, but nonetheless filled with many of the same people I knew when I worked there between 1995 and 1999. More...
Auxiliary Resource: Content Repositories and Resolution, Identifier Infrastructure
Auxiliary Resource: Content Repositories and Resolution, Identifier Infrastructure
Interesting PowerPoint Presentation from Dan Rehak of the Carnegie Mellon Learning Systems Architecture Lab on the use of external "resources" in addition to learning objects in an online course. More...
Thomson ISI to Track Web-Based Scholarship with NEC’s CiteSeer
Thomson ISI to Track Web-Based Scholarship with NEC’s CiteSeer
This is very interesting: "With the Open Access movement bringing Web-based scholarship to increased prominence, leading A&I services that have long provided the access tools to identify scholarship face new challenges. More...
Learning in Communities
Learning in Communities
The latest in my series of articles for the Australian Flexible Learning Community, in this item I look at the question of why we want online learning communities and what makes these communities work. More...
Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy
Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy
It's a fairly basic article, but it signals a change on the part of at least some economists regarding strong copyright protection. "The ideas of copy-left, or of a more liberal regime of copyright, are receiving wider and wider support," said Debora L. Spar, a professor at Harvard Business School. More...
FOAF Myers Briggs Addition
FOAF Myers Briggs Addition
This has been around for a while, but it's worth noting: the FOAF (Friend of a Friend) specification supports Myers Briggs Type Indicators. More...