By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Eighth International Open Forum on Metadata Registries
Presentations (PowerPoint, zipped files) are now available from the from the Eighth International Open Forum on Metadata Registries held last week. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. NESTA Futurelab Research
Rod Savoie sends this item along, a link to a series of literature reviews in topics related to education and learning technology - topics such as student centered learning, games and learning, e-assessment, mobile technologies, and more. The articles are really hard to read - the HTML displays two narrow columns of text in the middle of the page, while the PDF (which launches in a popup) tries to stuff two large pages in a single frame. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Interactive Whiteboards
Blog set up by Joop van Schie to collect information on interactive whiteboards. The first post is a comprehensive resource in itself, liting numerous products, articles, and other resources. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How To Save Public Education
Kind of a nifty idea - ideas on how to save publication, sorted by plans that take five minutes, five days, five weeks, five months and five years. Nifty, but I wish the ideas were a bit better, that the thinking was a bit deeper. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rescuing Social Networking
This link is here mostly for the graphic at the top, a nice conceptual vision of conferencing. But also for this sharp analysis of where social networks have been failing: "existing SNAs offer the user little to do, take too much time, don't provide a customized audience, are socially awkward, and don't provide much that other features of the Internet don't do as well or better." And for the advice near the end suggesting that "what would really make SVP cool would be if we could meter it... [and] automatically bill them and pay us for our time at an agreed-upon rate." Which left me wondering what my market rate would be billed per minute. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Open Access Journal for Human-centered ICT Research
Just launched, a new open access journal, Human Technology. The first issue, available now, is on mobile communications. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Duke University iPod First Year Experience Evaluation Report
Duke University has released the results of its evaluation of the first year of iPod use to support on-campus learning. The devices were used to both record audio content and to store and play back educational audio content. Getting content proved to be a problem; recording was not always of high quality, locating and licensing commercial content was difficult, and loading content into the iPod was cumbersome. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Practitioner Research and Evaluation Skills Training (PREST)
The Practitioner Research and Evaluation Skills Training (PREST) series has been published by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in collaboration with the International Research Foundation for Open Learning. This is a substantial resource, consisting of six core guides (with accompanying reading resources), six handbooks, and a user guide. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Rise Of The Amateur Professionals, Prosumers, Pro-Ams
Robin Good taps into the 'prosumer' meme with a good, well-sourced overview of the movement that sees an increasing number of people creating their own newspapers, radio, photography and even video. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Automated Assistance to Educators with Intelligent Agents
Useful short presentation in PDF describing the (future) role of intelligent agents in providing dynamic and context-sensitive information useful to educators and students. More...