By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Community Blogging
Text of the talk delivered to the Northern Voice conference. There is no centralized place that constitutes community, there are only people, and resources, that are distributed. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, February 19, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Web Site for Academics Roils Education Journalism
The Chronicle of Higher Education - in this article accurately described as "stodgy and resistant to change" - has been shaken up and now faces new competition as two former senior staff - Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman, the editor and managing editor of The Chronicle - left after 20 years to form their own online publishing venture, Inside Higher Ed. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Downloading Service Offered by University Failing to Entice Students
Experiences elsewhere vary, but this report indicates a very slow start to legal music downloading at Tufts. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. SLU Tries to Flush Out Naysayers With Copyright Suit
Here we have a case of a very minor - and possibly legal - use of copyright material being used as a means of identifying not an illegal file sharer but rather a sharp critic of St. Lawrence University (SLU). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Copyright and the Internet: Is There a Canadian Way?
Since the Toronto Star decided to hide its content behind a registration wall I have not been able to run Michael Geist's usually lucid material. This slide show is not much more accessible, but at least it's free and open. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Navigating Copyright in Schools: An Updated Resource for Canadian Educators Released
The Council of Ministers of education, Canada (CMEC) has released the second edition of Copyright Matters (PDF). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Knowledge Tree Special Edition
The Australian Flexible Learning Framework has released a special edition of the Knowledge Tree "featuring the 2004 Flexible Learning Leaders, marks the end of this leadership development initiative, which was part of the 2000-2004 Australian Flexible Learning Framework." From where I sit the Flexible Learning Leaders program was a good program, worth continuing. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Service-Oriented Frameworks for eLearning
Scott Wilson writes the kind of presentation that makes you feel like you've just spent an evening drinking beer with him as he effortlessly weaves through complex subjects dispelling both myths and confusion. As a case in point, his opening describing the many ways to achieve integration is both humorous and informative. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Repositories
The quality of this preentation is a bit unever (some of the diagrams absolutely need interpretation) but the author makes enough good points that it is worth a view. The 'The Next Wave' diagram on slide 5 should be noted by the LMS industry. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Repositories
This presentation introduces you to the Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (Arrow) project, an Australian repositories initiative, as well as detailed diagrams of the Flexible Learning Framework and the Tasmania Learning Architectures Project. More...