By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. LAMS and Moodle Integration
Big news here as the creators of LAMS and Moodle - both open source e-learning applications - announce plans for integration. The New Zealand Ministry of Education is sponsoring the integration. 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. 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...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Web-Based Chat And RSS-Enabled Open Discussion Space: Conversate
The title pretty much says it all: Conversate is a new web-based discussion space with RSS and chat support. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Changing Channels
George Siemens passes along this article, noting that changes in media are reflected in changes in education. And when it comes to television, new technologies are changing the industry completely. While television executives worry about things like ad-skipping and program sharing, it may already be too late to save the iondustry. More...
Cet événement, qui marquera le 5ème centenaire de la mort de Léonard de Vinci au Château du Clos Lucé à Amboise mais également la naissance de Catherine de Médicis à Florence ou encore le début de la construction du château de Chambord, va bien au-delà de nos frontières. Afin de promouvoir cet événement en France et dans le monde entier, la Région Centre-Val de Loire s’est associée avec Atout France, l’agence de développement touristique de la France et le Ministère des affaires étrangères. Plus...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Now Grading Your Student Essay -- A Computer
There have been numerous articles and commentaries about this item. For myself, I consider it a trivial distraction. Not because I am opposed to the use of computers to grade essays - I'm not. Not because this program does it well - it doesn't. But because the use of computers to grade essays is old news and because the use of any instrument (up to and including blind mice) to grade essays would be about as fair and consistent as the current practice. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. mLearnopedia: Your Mobile Learning Resource
eLearnopedia introduces us to mLearningopedia, a comprehensive resource on mobile learning. On the one hand I am an unabashed enthusiast for wireless connectivity and networking. On the other hand, I'm not sure about learning on a two-inch screen. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. BBC Eases Rules on News Feed Use
The BBC made some more friends worldwide today as restrictions previously limiting use of their RSS feeds were waived. Even more interesting is todays's announcement of BBC's Backstage, "the BBC's new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with. More...
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