By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Top 10 IT Issues, 2019: The Student Genome Project
Susan Grajek, EDUCAUSE Review, 2019/01/31
This is a follow-up to an earlier article on the top 10 IT issues. The cleverly titled focus of this article is on how to 'sequence' educational data. "In 2019 we are focused on organizing, standardizing, and safeguarding data," writes Susan Grajek, "so that we can use it to address our most pressing priority: student success." This the issues are clustered into three themes: empowered students, trusted data, and 21st-century business strategies. It's no surprise the focus is on data - most of the top 10 IT issues listed focus on data, and the other two themes are almost afterthoughts, interpreted here in terms of data. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors: The TrustDR Project December 5, 2005

From an email from Jackie Proven: "The main aims of this project are to explore the cultural, legal and technical issues that must be attended to in order to create legal agreements that can then be incorporated into a DRM system (please note that in the context of our project a system is not just about technical issues, but includes policies, protocols and perhaps most importantly cultural attitudes)." Not much on the site yet, just some news (no RSS) and some background documents. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sean Gallagher: Sun Spins Off Education Project as a Nonprofit, EWeek October 24, 2005

Interesting. "Instead of 'No Child Left Behind,'" said (Sun CEO Scott) McNealy, "we [want] 'No Child Held Back.'" This is the thinking behind his announcement last Wednesday at EDUCAUSE "that it (Sun) is spinning off its effort to create an online, open-source educational resource library as a nonprofit organization". More...

Un lab c’est une équipe, un projet clair, un lieu et un bon premier projet ! Bien choisir son premier projet est une étape importante de la vie d’un lab. Il est la vitrine du lab, qui crédibilise la démarche et les méthodes adoptées.  Définir les critères de sélection d’un projet, en s’exerçant sur 5 projets inspirants, voilà le défi de l’unité 4 du MOOC « Comment faire un laboratoire d’innovation publique ». Plus...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors: The YADIS Project November 29, 2005

Marc Canter links to this wiki page - YADIS stands for "Yet Another Decentralized Identity Interoperability System" and is an attempt to bring the various distributed identity projects, including mIDm, into alignment. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. List of FP5 & FP6 projects
This list just goes on and on with dozens of projects funded by the European Fifth and Sixth Frameworks. Everything from The 5th Dimension (Learning Communities in a Global World) to WINDS (Web-based Intelligent Design tutoring System). More...