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26 septembre 2018

Scirus - Science Specific Search Engine

Scirus - Science Specific Search Engine
Scott Leslie picks up this good link to Scirus, a "search engine that focuses solely on sources of scientific information and returns results either from qualified web sites or from only scientific journals." This is what I would like to do (or see done) with educational technology journals, in combination with Edu_RSS. More...

26 septembre 2018

Colleges Sweeten Deal With Apartments, Cable

Colleges Sweeten Deal With Apartments, Cable
I have commented before that, in order to survive, traditional universities will have to turn from their traditional value proposition - unique access to a higher education - to a new value proposition - the rarified residential environment. More...

26 septembre 2018

Mystery Patch Blots Microsoft's Fix-Free Month

Mystery Patch Blots Microsoft's Fix-Free Month
Just for the record, the automatic update mentioned in this article hammered my Windows XP home desktop, permanently disabling it and making my files inaccessible (three cheers for back-ups). It now becomes the fourth of my computers to acquire a Linux operating system (pushing me ever closer to my goal of a complete conversion to open source). More...

26 septembre 2018

Task force: Give Laptops for Students to Take Home

Task force: Give Laptops for Students to Take Home
This is a positive initiative. "A business task force looking at education issues wants to provide all Des Moines-area students - in public and private schools - with their own laptop computer over the next two years." But educators say - quite reasonably - that the program cannot cost any teachers their jobs. More...

26 septembre 2018

The DRM Dictionary

The DRM Dictionary
This useful digital rights management resource is 'copyright' and 'all rights reserved', naturally, but can still be viewed for free on the web, something that no doubt troubles other people deeply. More...

26 septembre 2018

The Impact of Schooling

The Impact of Schooling
The point of this article is to emphasize the difference between 'schooling' and 'learning' and the author, Jay Cross, does do with vigour, bringing to bear two of my favorite (and oft-visited) themes of e-learning: networks and surfing. More...

26 septembre 2018

Sunday Afternoon Thoughts on the Design of RSS Aggregators

Sunday Afternoon Thoughts on the Design of RSS Aggregators
Good article outlining the reasons why someone might choose a desktop RSS aggregator over using a server side (website) aggregator. I have tended to use server-sides because (a) they can store a lot more data, useful for searches and the like; (b) I can share this data with other people; and (c) I know how to program server-side applications, but have no patience for the nuances of the dsktop. More...

26 septembre 2018

Reload Eeleases SCORM E-learning Content Player

Reload Eeleases SCORM E-learning Content Player
Kudos to the good people at Reload for releasing an open source SCORM content viewer to go along with their open source SCORM content package editor. More...

26 septembre 2018

Shaping Information Societies for Human Needs

Shaping Information Societies for Human Needs
This is the Civil Society Declaration to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and consists of a statement of broad principles which are (in my view) worthy of endorsement in general. More...

26 septembre 2018

Asian Journal of Distance Education

Asian Journal of Distance Education
Just launched, volume 1, number 1 of the Asian Journal of Distance Education contains articles by Fred Lockwood, Tony Bates and Kinshuk, among others. Unfortunately, only abstracts are posted online, which means you have to purchase the dead tree version if you actually want to read any of these words of wisdom. More...

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