11 avril 2019

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Online Forum on Intellectual Property in the Information Society
In preparation for the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is hosting discussions during the first half of June intended to inform its submission. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 2 Steves And a Blog
Two well-known and recognized Steves - Gilbert and Ehrmann - have teamed up to offer this new blog. There's some pretty good content here, including yesterday's post on the relation between virtual learning and alumni donations. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. E-Learning 2.0
Slides from my online presentation today for the Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research (CIDER). I argue that e-learning is evolving into a distributed and learner centered mode. You'll notice that they look a lot like the last three sections from the presentation I gave a couple of days ago (except these have been optimised for easy download). The recording from the session, which was held using Elluminate, should be available on the CIDER website soon. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June 3, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. North Bay
Photos from North Bay, taken from the wilderness north and west of the city. The river pictured is Duchesnay Creek and the lake is, of course, Lake Nipissing. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June 3, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Summer of Code
Google will be very popular with developers for a while as it sponsors students to create open source code over the summer. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Intel Quietly Adds DRM to New Chips
Normally when a chip manufacturer introduces a revolutionary new feature it launches an advertising blitz. When it launches a feature none of its curtomers want, however, it keeps pretty quiet about it. That has been the case with Intel and its very quiet introduction of digital rights management (DRM) into some of its new processors. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children
Using a technique called the Digital Opportunity Measuring Stick researchers surveyed children in the United States to determine whether information and communications technologies (ICTs) were improving their lives. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Systems Thinking and Practice: Diagramming
This may all be old news to some people, but there is enough of a relation to concept mapping and to network analysis, both of which have been recent items of discussion in the e-learning space, to warrant inclusion here. Systems thinking is essentially the use of models to represent actions and influences in complex environments. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. La directrice générale de la Télé-Université du Québec se fait rassurante
It has been in the works for some time now, but now it's official: Quebec's distance learning organization, Télé-Université du Québec (Téluq) has been absorbed by l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Coverage is in French. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Playtime in the Classroom
As the article notes, this may be news to people who don't play video games, but researchers are reporting that the use of these games improves learning. The author focuses mostly on "American pop science writer" Steven Johnson along with MIT Arcade and James Paul Gee. More...