26 octobre 2018

I Want To Be A Cognitive Ergonomist
Robin Good turns a phrase about as well as anyone, and today's contribution - cognitive ergonomist - is no exception. A short item - but that's about the way it is today, one of the slowest news days of the year. More...

Cognitive and Logical Rationales for e-Learning Objects
I didn't particularly enjoy this paper - it was hard to follow, didn't really advance anything new, and where it did seem to be new and clear, seemed wrong. But it's being discussed by the IT Forum right now (and generated some dicussion last month on another forum) so I'm passing it along. More...

My Theoretical Overview of Instructional Systems
Nifty diagram that "represents an attempt to symbolize my own conception of instructional systems as a field of study and practice," the image followed by a detailed exegesis. More...

The Ocean, The Bird, and the Scholar
I couldn't help but think of Kenneth Clark as I read this text of the 33nd Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. The author argues that the traditional cornerstones of the humanities, history and philosophy, ought to be replaced by the arts. More...

Skype for Linux
Skype - the free application that allows people to make free internet telephone calls using their computer - is now available for Linux. More...

Copyright Excesses Worry Teachers, Scholars
Coverage of the recent Knowledge Held Hostage? Scholarly Versus Corporate Rights in the Digital World at the Annenberg School for Communication (it's too bad the conference didn't make presentations available online). According to the article, "Educators and legal experts contend new technologies and lawsuits are creating uncertainty about what is exempt under the law." Even where fair use rights exist, the threat of litigation has schools consulting their lawyers first, weighing the educational benefit against the cost of defending their rights. More...

E-Learning Industry Promotion and Development
Jean sent me this useful link which will be of interest to those wanting to know about e-learning in Taiwan. More...

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
Interview with Felix Oberholzer-Gee, who with co-author Koleman Strumpf "floored the disbelieving music industry with their findings that illegal music downloads don’t hurt CD sales." Some good stuff here, but nothing new for people who have already read the report. More...

Estudios Pedagógicos
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), a major source of Open Access STM literature from Latin America, has launched five new publications, including this journal, Estudios Pedagógicos, which is a Spanish language "publication of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Austral University of Chile. It welcomes collaborations specializing in the field of education and that constitute a contribution to pedagogical knowledge." One issue, from 2003, is already online, with abstracts in English and Spanish, articles in Spanish. More...

Notes from Microsoft
David Weinberger is the latest in a series of speakers to travel to Redmond and tell Microsoft what it doesn't want to hear - that current approaches to DRM are a path to failure. More...