By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Marriott fined $600,000 by FCC for blocking guests' Wi-Fi
Katia Hetter, CNN, 2014/10/06
What a lot of people do, including me, is use their mobile phone as a wireless access point. Mobile LTE sppeeds are good enough now to support at least minimal internet access. But hotels, who have historically overcharged for internet access, find this to be unreasonable competition. So they've been blocking the signals. More...
Le Bleuet a de multiples significations : Régiment de chasseurs ou encore réaliser une marche commémorative sur les champs de bataille de la Grande Guerre. Cette rencontre avec l’histoire restera pour eux un moment fort de leur parcours au sein du 1er Régiment du Service Militaire Volontaire. Plus... Le 11 novembre 2018, des volontaires stagiaires du 2ème Régiment du Service Militaire Volontaire ont pu participer à l’hommage rendu aux maréchaux de la Grande Guerre, qui se tenait aux invalides. Plus...By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ai Weiwei is Living in Our Future
Hans de Zwart, Medium, 2015/01/01
So what is life like in the surveillance state? Ask artist Ai Weiwei. He lives under constant observation courtesy of the Chinese government. This article describes his efforts to understand and test the limits of constant observation, including the impact it has on the observers (ware in many ways less free than he is). Weiwei's present is our future. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. SCORM and Tin Can API: The difference between DVDs and Netflix
Melanie Moffett, eLearning Industry, 2014/11/24
I'd like to think that we can go a bit beyond Nedtflix, but I appreciate the analogy behind this post comparing SCORM and xAPI. SCORM - the Sharable Content Object Reference Model, was designed as a way for published products, like courseware, to report back to a host system, like a learning management system (LMS). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Affiliation and Ignite
Chris Kennedy, Culture of Yes, 2014/11/28
This is a pretty key statement, I think: "Our profession will not be mandated into meeting the needs of modern learners but the power of networks and new thinking around affiliation can help diffuse the work." It is the way we work as individuals, and work with learners as individuals, that will define the new structures of learning. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014
Matt Saccaro, Salon, 2014/09/25
I don't know what's so shocking about this. Adjunct and sessional instructors have been abysmally underpaid since the days in the 1990s when I was caught up in that racket. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Flipping Grade 4 and Flipping Bloom's Taxonomy Triangle
Maggie Hos-McGrane, Tech Transformation, 2014/09/15
I'm no fan of taxonomies but I'm a fan of the thinking behind this post. By 'flipping' Bloom's taxonomy, we get an approach to education that does not begin with remembering, it ends with remembering. And (I would add) the objective of such an education isn't remembering at all (and certainly not remembering some sort of core content); that's an outcome, but it isn't what we're striving for, necessarily. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Community Source Is Dead
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2014/09/02
I've never been a proponent of what is sometimes called 'community source' (but which is really a closed federation posturing as though it were some sort of open source). More...
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