The Next Step in Scholarly Communication: Is the Traditional Journal Dead?
If the traditional journal is not dead, a suggested by the title of this essay, it is certainly being pressed. The author adopts a generally positive stance toward online publications and suggests that te nature of academic articles themselves will change as a result of the new medium. More...
Online Resources
Useful list of postsecondary-focused teaching and learning websites from Faculty Development Associates. More...
EPortfolio: Does the E mean "Exploitation?"
Some doubts and unease about portfolios are expressed in this article (as the title suggests). Asks the author, "Can we, should we, force students to publish their work online?" And if we do, "Who is the owner of the items uploaded into an ePortfolio?" The author argues that "the work should be placed in the public domain." But that's unreasobale; any person, including students, should be able to determine whether their work is donated to the public. More...
Gmail Invitation Prices Crash
You can tell it's a bear market when even this lowly scribe has a GMail account (thanks Tze) - you can write me if you want at downes@gmail.com but be warned that I check this account about once a month or so (that is, about as often as I visit Orkut). More...
From Classrooms to Learning Environments: A Midrange Projection of E-Learning Technologies
Our experience with information and communications technologies is sufficient to allow us to identify the progression through the two phases of technological adoptation. This progression may be mapped to a continuum of technological innovations that are now becoming more familiar to researchers in the field. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June 10, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...
Extensible Repository Resource Locators (ERRoLs) for OAI Identifiers
In my article on RSS listed here yesterday I wrote, "It is only a matter of time before the RSS and OAI worlds merge." Today, Jeff Young wrote me to say, "You might be interested to learn that our ERRoL service does exactly that (among other things.) Any OAI repository registered in the OAI Registry at UIUC can be accessed as an RSS feed. More...
The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in the Classroom
Short article outlining the possible uses of blogging in the classrom. The author makes his case by pointing to the importance of storytelling and literacy in the classroom, then drawing the connection between blogs, literacy and storytelling. More...
La Escritura Com Weblogs
Overview article desscribing the use of weblogs in education, introducing readers to things such as Blogger. More...
News on Demand
Busy day - shortish newsletter today. This first item is an introduction to RSS with good sets of comparative links to useful resources, such as generators and feed readers. More...
Biases and Heuristics in Judgment and Decision Making: The Dark Side of Tacit Knowledge
Knowledge management theorists are engaged in the goal of 'extracting' tacit knowledge from people's minds, making it explicit in a knowledge base. Forget about whether or not this can be done: suppose it can. More...
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