By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Final Frontier: Space
Stephen Downes, Jun 03, 2016, SALTISE, Montreal, Quebec

I compare two metaphors for learning: first, time, as the dominant metaphor, which is a linear and ordered progression toward a goal; and second, space, which is a non-linear exploration of a domain. I also examine the sort of tools. technologies and learning supports we should be thinking about when think of learning from a space-based perspective. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Creating a CSS Curtain Opening Effect
Geoff Graham, CSS-Tricks, 2016/06/02

There are thousands of lessons like this on the internet, not part of any official repository, but widely shared and widely used. This one is shared by a site called CSS-Tricks. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Introducing HyperDev
Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software, 2016/06/02
So this looks interesting. "HyperDev is going to be the fastest way to bang out code and get it running on the internet. We want to eliminate 100% of the complicated administrative details around getting code up and running on a website." I've set up a very simple page here. It took me a couple minutes. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A tour of Docker's components: Machine, swarm, compose, and more
Rick Fast', O'Reilly, 2016/06/02

More on Docker. "Docker has grown from a convenience wrapper to encompass an entire architecture. Learn how Docker's major components are related to each other." More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. No, it’s not you: Google maps really did get crappy
Justin O'Beirne, Quartz, 2016/06/01
As a cartography aficionado I also have notice the declining quality o Google maps, and in particular the disappearing city names. The author talks about the imbalance (too few cities, too many unnamed roads) at a certain scale, but if you zoom in you'll also notice it difficult to find street names and the names of rivers (you also get a totally different selection of city names). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Inexorable
Simon Terry, 2016/06/01

"The thousands of small adjustments we make each day are barely noticed," writes Simon Terry. But change is a constant in human life, and it should be a constant in organizations as well. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes
Kennedy Elliott, Medium, 2016/06/01

There' some good information about design in this article as well as some insight into how humans perceive (and even some information about how humans perceive as compared to algorithms). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The OA Interviews: Michaël Bon, Founder of the Self-Journal of Science
Richard Poynder, Open and Shut?, 2016/06/01
"Right now," says Richard Poynder, "the open access revolution is stalling, and before it will be able to move forward again it will be necessary to recover territory that OA advocates are currently giving away to publishers." Hence this interview (28 page PDF) with Michaël Bon, who launched a new open-access publishing service called the Self-Journal of Science (SJS). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Battle Of Multiple Learning Management Systems: A Learning Application Developer’s View On LTI
Dov Friedman, eLearning Industry, 2016/06/01

This is some of what we were working with when we developed the Personal Learning course (sadly no more MOOCs until I figure out a way to pay for them). More...