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31 janvier 2020

Facebook As a Learning Platform

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Facebook As a Learning Platform
To be clear, I do not think that Facebook itself is really a learning environment. It's a large, centralized piece of software that is getting creaky with use (we've seen more outages and the PHP code is once again dumping itself into users' browsers). Its privacy policies are questionable and it is giving out user information to applications willy-nilly. But it is still important, because it reveals many of the features future learning environments (and personal environments in general) will need to have. Something like the social network operating system, maybe. More...

31 janvier 2020

Summary: Content Is Infrastructure

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Summary: Content Is Infrastructure
Summary of David Wiley's post, Content is Infrastructure which assertions a proposition with which I am in basic agreement. "If we want to see education radically improved, we can't architect it. None of us is that intelligent. We have to understand that content is infrastructure in order to start Linus' massively parallel feedback cycle running." More...

31 janvier 2020

OAuth 1.0 Release May Offer Safer Mashup Opportunities

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OAuth 1.0 Release May Offer Safer Mashup Opportunities
It's sort of in the same spirit as OpenID. OAuth (Open Authentication) is "an open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications." The purpose is to make mashups easier and safer, so that you don't send your password around to a whole bunch of different applications. OAuth for Perl. And discussion of OAuth from Six Apart. More...

31 janvier 2020

Launchball

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Launchball
OK, first of all, this game is impossibly addictive. I played it Sunday afternoon, finishing all the levels in one sitting. Second, it is hosted at a British museum website. Third, it is - or has the potential to be - quite educational, even without having learning outcomes or anything silly like that. Why, it's not 'serious' at all! And fourth, it lets users create even more games on the basic platform. Try it. You'll see what I mean. More...

31 janvier 2020

Warren Buffett's MBA Talk Vs Evolution of Dance

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Warren Buffett's MBA Talk Vs Evolution of Dance
Which is the better educational material, a speech by Warren Buffet, one of the richest people in the world, on investing, or a 6 minute video on the evolution of dance? The presumption of this post is that the 'crowd' got it wrong, viewing the dance video 59 million times and watching Buffett only 98,000 times. But I learned more about dance in six minutes than I learned about stocks in 60 - and I trust the dance video a lot more, because you can't fake this stuff. Buffett gives us folksy advice like "you should buy what you know" and questionable bits like "if you learned about Wrigley's 40 years ago, you still know everything you need to know." Um, what? I agree with the author that there are "many excellent free online learning resources out there that are not being fully utilized by the global intelligence learning network." More...

31 janvier 2020

Great E-Learning Books Summarized

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Great E-Learning Books Summarized
This is an interesting series, with summaries of books by people such as Clark Aldrich, Karl Kapp, Willie Horton, and others, offered by e-LearningGuru. The first thing I noticed (I'm so vain) was that they didn't summarize my work! But then I realized, I haven't written a book. Not one with hard covers and ISBN numbers, at least - though I have a few ebooks collecting dust on my website. But I could have. So could lots of us. Why should the people who gave it up to the publishers be given special treatment? Now I don't have time to write these, but I'll make you a deal - if you write them, I'll post them here or link to them (whichever you prefer). Take a look at these to get an idea of the style, then do the same for your favorite e-learning blogger or writer. More...

31 janvier 2020

Consent Decree with the Open Web Shuts Down Times Select

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Consent Decree with the Open Web Shuts Down Times Select
"Whether or not content wants to be free", writes Jeff Jarvis, "it is free." He is writing of the New York Times decision to knock down the pay walls and open its subscription service, Times Select, to free access. This is significant. This isn't just Radiohead releasing its latest album on a pay-what-you-want basis (something Jane Siberry started a couple of years ago). This is a recognition that, in order to generate revenue, content needs exposure. Rosen writes, "you can try to charge, and some people will pay, but there is more money and a brighter future in the open flow of Web traffic... Just as RSS sends stuff from the middle of the stack out...every barrier you create to their participation with your product weakens your revenue stream..." The same is true of education. More...

31 janvier 2020

A Vision of Students Today

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Vision of Students Today
Fabulous video produced by Micheal Wesch - the same person who produced Web2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us - and his Anthropology Class. What I like about the video - aside from the tone and the music - is the rebelliousness. Linked by, oh my, a whole pile of people. More...

31 janvier 2020

OpenLearn Units in Facebook, App

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OpenLearn Units in Facebook, App
I wrote a dull Facebook app last week, and now Tony Hirst has com back with something more interesting, "an OpenLearn Course Units facebook app. Add it to your Facebook profile and you can read the content of every OpenLearn unit via the unit RSS feeds, which are bundled using my own OpenLearn OPML bundles" using Grazr. Sweet. Now, imagine if these were different every day, as though your could reach in and sample a day's activity at a university. More...

31 janvier 2020

Web 2.0

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Web 2.0
OK, I like the idea of presenting a long (111 slide) presentation on Web 2.0 in Web 2.0 tools. But it shows me that Google Presentation isn't prime time yet, with awkward page loads (including a 404 sidebar) and sizing (Google's software has been surprisingly unreliable for the last year or so, as though they are stretching their programming resources way too thin - maybe he should have used Zoho). That said, you should keep this resources (which is licensed as open source) on file, as it contains hundreds of useful (and usefully sorted and filtered) resources. More...

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