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5 juin 2019

Is Morality an Emergent Behavior?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ulises Ali Mejias[Edit][Delete]: Is Morality an Emergent Behavior?, Ideant [Edit][Delete] January 27, 2006

I didn't mean for this week's newsletters to have morality as a theme, but a post today from Ulises points back to this link, making it three days in a row for me to touch on the topic. Perhaps that's just as well. In this item, he advances the proposition that morality is not based on reason (in fact, reason actually impedes it), but rather, "morality is actually an emergent behavior - in other words, a behavior exhibited by organisms acting according to very simple rules requiring little reasoning." If this is the case (and I believe something like it is) then it would seem to me that we sense, rather than infer, the morality (or immorality) of our actions. More...

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5 juin 2019

Is E-Learning 2.0 For Real?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is E-Learning 2.0 For Real?

I have been participating in an online forum called the "Learning 2.0 Summit," a discussion that is (ironically) invisible to the wider web. Participants include people like Jay Cross, Robin Good, Mark Oehlert, Howard Rheinhgold, George Siemens, and a couple dozen more. This article collects some of my posts to date in that discussion.[Tags: ] [Comment]. More...

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5 juin 2019

Stanford On ITunes Is For Everybody

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Kate DuBose Tomassi[Edit][Delete]: Stanford On ITunes Is For Everybody, Forbes [Edit][Delete] January 26, 2006

The author states that it is "an unprecedented move" as Stanford moves with Apple to podcast "a wide range of lectures, speeches, debates and other university content through iTunes." I am at a bit of a loss to figure out what's unprecedented. Podscasting lectures? No, I've been doing that for two years, and I am by no means alone. Allowing free public access to university course content? No, MIT has that pretty much sewn up with OpenCourseWare. More...

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5 juin 2019

Google in China

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jeff Utecht[Edit][Delete]: Google in China, The Thinking Stick [Edit][Delete] January 26, 2006

As everybody (absolutely everybody) in the blogosphere has noted, Google has agreed to censor search results destined for China. My question is: if they are so willing to do this in China, could they have done it here? How would we know. More...

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5 juin 2019

Scuttle: Open Source Social Bookmarking Tool

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tim Lauer[Edit][Delete]: Scuttle: Open Source Social Bookmarking Tool, Education/Technology [Edit][Delete] January 26, 2006

I talked about del.irio.us last week, an open source alternative to the del.icio.us social bookmarking tool, but noting that it was offline, contemplated authoring my own. Maybe I don't have to, if this open source tool does the job. More...

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5 juin 2019

The Strength of Internet Ties

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jeffrey Boase, et.al.[Edit][Delete]: The Strength of Internet Ties, Pew [Edit][Delete] January 25, 2006

A Pew study is released which casts doubt on the idea that online communication weakens local and family ties. Instead, the internet has assumed a role in supplementing those ties (the report even notes that people with more local ties also use the internet more frequently) while at the same time providing people with access to multiple communities worldwide from which they can draw help and support. More...

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5 juin 2019

The Network Delivers the Goods

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Brian Lamb[Edit][Delete]: The Network Delivers the Goods, Abject learning [Edit][Delete]Abject Learning [Edit][Delete] January 25, 2006

Brian Lamb is still sorting through the results he received from the community after asking for help for an unusually important presentation tomorrow night (which means, yes, you can still flood him with your responses) on blogs and wikis. Naturally, he offers links to it all, including a trackback from Germany, a "groovy wiki-based presentation" and a "Sessums-like tour de force post." Why is this relevant to anything. More...

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5 juin 2019

A New Perspective on the Experience Economy

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Albert Boswijk , Thomas Thijssen and Ed Peelen[Edit][Delete]: A New Perspective on the Experience Economy, European Centre for the Experience Economy [Edit][Delete] January 25, 2006

"The experience economy is more than just 'excite me', 'feed me' and 'entertain me'," write the authors. A meaningful experience needs to be rooted in the individual experience, "his or her everyday world and societal context." But what does that mean? The authors do a good job of drawing this out, characterizing both the sensation, emotional impact and context of meaningful experience. "They have a high emotional impact, they have to do with letting go of old patterns, and discovering new frontiers." The having of a meaningful experience is itself an experience; the engagement of one's emotions and beliefs brings about (and this is my interpretation) what might be thought of as a secondary, reflective experience. More...

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5 juin 2019

My Commission Testimony

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. David Wiley[Edit][Delete]: My Commission Testimony, Iterating Toward Openness [Edit][Delete]Iterating toward openness [Edit][Delete] January 25, 2006

[link: Hits] David Wiley prepares his testimony to the US Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. And, happily, makes it availble to us first. It's a good account overall; I have only one major suggestion for him. I would add another line to the table describing the ways in which the world is changing, somingthing like: managed - autonomous. Or: directed - self-directed. Because I think the new technology empowers in important ways. But I certainly agree with the rest of the items in the table, and especially with this: "openness is the gateway to connectedness, personalization, and participation." David Wiley are of one mind, I think, when it comes to openness. More...

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5 juin 2019

Network Bias

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mark Hemphill[Edit][Delete]: Network Bias, markhemphill.com [Edit][Delete] January 25, 2006

Audio recording of a talk that sounds interesting. It is a "look at the way broadcasting holds critical sway in the virtual world (in spite of the amazing opportunities of internetworking)." There is a summary in PDF. It's dense reading, but the author draws us through a definition of broadcasting and distinguishes it from what may be called mesh networking. He then examines what he calls 'social conditioning' in these two types of communications of network. More...

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