By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Thank You, Pearson: OER, Metadata, Gateways, and Elephants
Bill Fitzgerald, FunnyMonkey, 2016/11/16

There's debate about Pearson's approach to OER, especially through it's Equella service (acquired in 2009). Lisa Petrides posts on 'open source pillaging': "see how our non-commercial resources are used inappropriately here.". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is Audio Really the Future of the Book?
Rebecca Rego Barry, JSTOR Daily, 2016/11/17

I don't think anyone has seriously suggested that all books will be replaced by audio. It's far more plausible to suggests that all paper versions of books will be transferred to a digital format. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. HTML 5.1 is the gold standard
Philippe le Hegaret, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), 2016/11/17

As reported by the W3C: "A couple weeks ago the W3C Web Platform Working Group published HTML 5.1 as a Standard. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stereotyping, Behavior, and Belonging in the Open Education Community
David Wiley, iterating toward openness, 2016/11/17
David Wiley comments on the role of commercial actors in the open space in light of yesterday’s revelation that Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation. He writes, "The open source software side of the open house has absolutely no issue with commercial entities using or contributing to open source software." More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Coming Revolution in Email Design
Jason Rodriguez, A List Apart, 2016/11/17

Could we be about to see technological innovations in email? According to this article, email vendors are beginning to awaken to the possibility. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Capabilities, Opportunities and Motivation Behaviour-Based Theory of Change Model
John Mayne, ResearchGate, 2016/11/18
There are numerous behavioural change models, but John Mayne expresses surprise that they are not used more in educational literature. This is likely because behaviourist accounts have largely been replaced with the sort of cognitive modeling processes described in constructivism. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Learning Analytics Roadmap: The Dalton Plan
Moodle News, 2016/11/18

This is an overview of how Moodle will approach learning analytics under the leadership of Elizabeth Dalton. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The changing boundaries of the MOOC identity
Various authors, Federica, 2016/11/18

This is a MOOC created out of the presentations and discussions I and a dozen or so colleagues had at a colloquium on the Isle of Capri at the invitation of the University of Naples Federico II. More...