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5 septembre 2018

MS DRM is Pure Smoke

MS DRM is Pure Smoke
I was pretty sure that somebody, sooner or later, would crack the digital rights management (DRM) in Microsoft's WindowsMedia 9 format. What I didn't expect was for it to be this easy. No confirmation yet, but: the DRM was, according to this report, vanquished with freely available code, no reverse engineering, and no key. More...

5 septembre 2018

AOL Cuts Remaining Mozilla Hackers

AOL Cuts Remaining Mozilla Hackers
It pains me to report this, but AOL is killing Netscape, ending the browser war that began seven or eight years ago when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer. On the heels of a settlement with Microsoft, AOL is, in a mass layoff, terminating the Netscape project. More...

5 septembre 2018

RJC Video Throws Up IT Dilemma: Was Student Using Technology In The Correct Way?

RJC Video Throws Up IT Dilemma: Was Student Using Technology In The Correct Way?
This is interesting. "In the RJC incident, the student was reported as having used a handphone camera to film a teacher berating a classmate for a piece of work that had apparently not been done satisfactorily. The teacher was also captured on film when she — in a dramatic finale to her outburst — tore up the student’s work." The questions asked in the article get to the heart of the student-teacher relationship. More...

5 septembre 2018

Adaptive Patterns in Authoring of Educational Adaptive Hypermedia

Adaptive Patterns in Authoring of Educational Adaptive Hypermedia
The idea of adaptive hypermedia is that online content would personalize its display given information about the viewer. If (writes the author) a student displays no motivation to learn the chiaroscuro technique, then on detecting this, the system would display a Rembrandt painting, "with the hope that seeing such a great painting will motivate them." The example is a little far-fetched. More...

5 septembre 2018

Create and Sell Your Own books Using True Print-on-Demand Technology

Create and Sell Your Own books Using True Print-on-Demand Technology
It hasn't quite launched yet (take-off is July 28) but CafePress has launched an initiative that should give publishers pause: a means for writers to publish and sell their own books. More...

5 septembre 2018

Adaptive Hypermedia

Adaptive Hypermedia
Yesterday I linked to a short article about adaptive hypermedia. Today's link is to a much more thorough examination of the same subject by the same author, in the form of a Power Point presentation. More...

5 septembre 2018

The Dynamic Appearance Model and Implementing SCORM 1.3

The Dynamic Appearance Model and Implementing SCORM 1.3
Dynamic appearance is the art and mystery of creating two different looks from the same document. At a certain level, it's not hard: just switch style-sheets. But when you get into more page-specific properties, you need to use something more complicated, such as (say) Javascript. More...

5 septembre 2018

PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption

PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption
I have written many, many times in these pages how much I hate PDF files. It's not just me. This article from usability expert Jakob Nielsen condemns PDFs for committing numerous "usability crimes." They are long and linear. More...

5 septembre 2018

Next-Generation Educational Technology versus the Lecture

Next-Generation Educational Technology versus the Lecture
Despite the fact that we should know better, the lecture continues to dominate university learning. With the potential offered by information technology, though, we can think of alternative means of deliveing learning. More...

5 septembre 2018

The Manhattan Virtual Classroom

The Manhattan Virtual Classroom
Steven wrote in to say that "your newsletter has mentioned several free, open source course management systems. Here's another. More...

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