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4 juin 2019

RIP-ping on Learning Objects

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. David Wiley[Edit][Delete]: RIP-ping on Learning Objects, Iterating Toward Openness [Edit][Delete]Iterating toward openness [Edit][Delete] January 9, 2006

David Wiley writes, "I don't think I care if learning objects are dead or not." Now if that doesn't get you to click on the link I don't know what will. Wiley recounts the reusability paradox he outlined a few years ago, and yet underlines the value learning objects were supposed to bring. He writes, "As I've thought about that need, I think it is best expressed as easily localizable resources." More...

28 mai 2019

6 juin 2019 : difficultés de circulation / droits et obligations des employeurs et salariés

Direccte NormandieLe Calvados commémore cette année le 75e anniversaire du Débarquement interallié et de la Bataille de Normandie.
Face à aux difficultés de circulation ce 6 juin, l’inité départementale du Calvados de la Direccte de Normandie vous informe sur les droits et obligations des salariés et des entreprises pour ce jour particulier (RTT, congés payés, récupération des heures perdues, activité partielle). Plus...

28 mai 2019

OK, So Stephen Downes Doesn't Like the LMOS

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Michael Feldstein[Edit][Delete]: OK, So Stephen Downes Doesn't Like the LMOS, E-Literate [Edit][Delete] January 31, 2006

[link: Hits] Michael Feldstein wasn't too happy with my post from yesterday. He writes, "I think language like 'ridiculous' and 'absurd' is unnecessarily hyperbolic... It's also not terribly collegial or respectful. And finally, it doesn't reflect a grasp of the problems we are trying to solve." The problem they are trying to solve is this: "SUNY has 64 campuses with 414,000 students... Somebody has to provision all of those courses from a server, make sure it all scales, and support all of those applications." But if you try to build one system that will automate everything for that many people, you get (in my view) an unsustainable (and very expensive) mess. I would never try to serve so many people from a great big server with a predefined architecture; indeed, I have argued at length over the years that this is exactly what shouldn't be done. More...

28 mai 2019

Welcome to PLoS Computational Biology Education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Fran Lewitter[Edit][Delete]: Welcome to PLoS Computational Biology Education, PLoS Computational Biology [Edit][Delete] January 30, 2006

[link: Hits] The Public Library of Science journal Computational Biology announces a new column on education. They write, "Tutorials and reviews are only the beginning. Over time, we will explore ways to present educational information in this digital age that can take advantage of technological innovation. In addition to text-based information, we are considering multimedia presentations and other media to enhance the written word". More...

28 mai 2019

Public Schools Win! (Maybe)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tim Stahmer[Edit][Delete]: Public Schools Win! (Maybe), Assorted Stuff [Edit][Delete] January 30, 2006

As Tim Stahmer cites, "A large-scale government-financed study has concluded that when it comes to math, students in regular public schools do as well as or significantly better than comparable students in private schools." As Tim Stahmer comments, "But itâxTMs certainly not enough to force the death of NCLB and declare victory over the charter/voucher concept". More...

28 mai 2019

George Siemens and Stephen Downes - On Knowledge

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes, George Siemens, Jeff LeBow and Dave Cormier[Edit][Delete]: George Siemens and Stephen Downes - On Knowledge, Ed Tech Talk [Edit][Delete] January 30, 2006

[link: Hits] So George Siemens and I had a chat on Ed Tech Talk Sunday about issues arising out of my Connective Knowledge paper and his comments about my scepticism about objective knowledge. Here's the MP3 Audio and the chat Transcript. As an added bonus, Dave Cormier and I chatted at length Sunday evening about the show and related issues. Now I rarely (well, never) post chat transcripts, but this particular transcript catches me at just the right time and allows me to share thoughts and feelings you can't really capture in a paper or forum such as took place earlier. So, with Dave's gracious permission (because the chat was never intended for publication), here's our discussion (click here). [Tags: Chat and Chat Rooms, Podcasting] [Comment] [Edit]. More...

28 mai 2019

Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams, LiveScience

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Robert Roy Britt[Edit][Delete]: Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams, LiveScience [Edit][Delete] February 2, 2006

[link: 2 Hits] A headline from fifty years ago? No, it's from last week. The Western Union telegraph has a long and storied history but it's odd to think of people still sending telegrams in 2006, illustrative of the time it takes one technology to replace another. Still, I never sent a telegram in my life. More...

28 mai 2019

EdNA Communities Closing Down

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Announcement[Edit][Delete]: EdNA Communities Closing Down, EdNA [Edit][Delete] February 2, 2006

[link: 1 Hits] Not as bad as it sounds, as communities are encoyraged to move to EdNA Groups, the service that was launched last year. "Each Group receives a space in which they can choose from a range of tools to facilitate communication and collaboration. For example, you can set up web forums and live chats; share web-links, files and images; create web pages and wikis; poll or survey members, and add RSS newsfeeds from EdNA Online". More...

28 mai 2019

Why Blaze Lonely and Unpopular Trails That Will Become Highways of Tomorrow?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Vicki A. Davis[Edit][Delete]: Why Blaze Lonely and Unpopular Trails That Will Become Highways of Tomorrow?, Cool Cat Teacher Blog [Edit][Delete] February 2, 2006

[link: 4 Hits] Nancy White recommended the Cool Cat Teacher Blog, which in turn impressed me with the first post I read. Excerpted in this post: "'Dr Brand...do you really think it is worth it?' No! The word sprang to Paul's lips. He almost spoke it. But something silenced it. Perhaps it was the memory of reawakening life in the eyes of Krishnamurthy. [His first patient.] Or an older memory of three figures turning hopelessly back down a steep mountain path. Or no memory at all, but that strange imperative which compels some men to blaze lonely and unpopular trails which will be the highways of tomorrow. More...

28 mai 2019

DRM: Media Companies' Next Flop?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Unattributed[Edit][Delete]: DRM: Media Companies' Next Flop?, CNet News.Com [Edit][Delete]CNET News.com [Edit][Delete]CNet News.com [Edit][Delete]CNet news.Com [Edit][Delete] February 1, 2006

[link: Hits] Just another day in the online battles over digital rights management (DRM) and copyright. This article warns of the danger that customers will be lost because of DRM. "A few more incidents like Sony's 'rootkit' flap and consumers may revolt." Signs of that revolt are already evident. Newspapers have handled it so badly they are being called dead. And they are. But still, they continue to misunderstand the market, accusing Google of exploiting their content, and want to be de-indexed. Fine. Let them go, disappear from sight, and die. Movie studios, meanwhile, are busy ending the longstanding tradition of college screenings. We are reaching an end-point in this battle, and the tactics will intensify from here. While the industry is earning some wins in their attacks on consumers, they are losing more and more ground, which artists themselves beginning to understand what's going on. Commercial content is on the verge of being replaced. More...

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