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5 juin 2019

Emergent Computing

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Heather J. Ruskin and Ray Walshe[Edit][Delete]: Emergent Computing, ERCIM News [Edit][Delete] January 23, 2006

[link: Hits] As the editors summarize in this introduction to this special issue of ERCIM News, emergent computing is "highly complex processes arising from the cooperation of many simple processes, ie high-level behaviour resulting from low- level interaction of simpler building blocks." If you are wondering about the sort of theoretical background I am thinking of when I am thinking of learning networks, this is it (won't fit on the two page project approval template, though). More...

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5 juin 2019

Problems and Prospects of Problems and Prospects of Open and Distance Education in Nigeria

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mudasiru Olalere Yusuf[Edit][Delete]: Problems and Prospects of Problems and Prospects of Open and Distance Education in Nigeria, Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education [Edit][Delete] January 23, 2006

[link: 1 Hits] Frank look at the implementation of open and distance learning in Nigeria and the problems faced by the service. Most of the problems are what would be expected - poor electricity service, postal service and telecommunications. Also facing Nigerians are inconsistencies in implementation and an inadequate ICT infrastructure. The author correctly argues for the need for stakeholder involvement and of finding ways to communicate with students in order to offer support. More...

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5 juin 2019

An Idea Too Dangerous to Ignore

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Brian Thill[Edit][Delete]: An Idea Too Dangerous to Ignore, Inside Higher Ed [Edit][Delete] January 23, 2006

I would like to invite the same organization to put up $100 to each of my readers who spots and sends in some instance of bias or political affiliation on this site. And to my readers, I pledge to offer a steady supply, to keep you all in cash. Or we could all recognize that having a point of view or perspective is fundamental to the very idea of being an academic, that such points of view are sometimes, and necessarily, out of the mainstream, and that the very principle of freedom of expression rails against the idea of punishing people - whatever their positions - for their political views. More...

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5 juin 2019

If You Ain't a Feed, I Don't Read

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. If You Ain't a Feed, I Don't Read
This post captures the tension between wanting to use new communications tools - things like RSS, for example - which are really so much more advanced, and wanting to read people who have interesting ideas, but who have, for some reason, not caught on to these tools. Marc Prensky, for example, hasn't blogged anything for more than a year. Meanwhile, Jay Cross is discontinuing his email newsletter. More...

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5 juin 2019

Facebook Bankruptcy

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Facebook Bankruptcy
We are seeing the pushback from people who joined Facebook without anticipating what happens when all their friends can send stuff to them all the time. The problem isn't Facebook so much as all those apps that prompt users to 'send this to ten of your friends' (one - the sticky notes - was so aggressive it pre-selected ten friends and prompted me to invite them before I had even finished installing it on my own account). This will backfire. But before it does, it's giving us all some really good object lessons on how to build the real (that is, the open and distributed) social network that will eventually replace Facebook. More...

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5 juin 2019

7 Ways Croquet Is Better Than Second Life

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 7 Ways Croquet Is Better Than Second Life
Good post that argues that Croquet - the open source 3D multi-user environment - is better than Second Life. The most significant is scalability - each Second Life server can only handle 15-25 people (which is really quite astonishing). More...

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5 juin 2019

Why Does The RIAA Hate Webcasters?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Does The RIAA Hate Webcasters?
The answer is: webcasters don't play very much RIAA music. "The situation really is a win-win for the RIAA (in the short-term). It either kills off those webcasters who don't contribute to the homogenization of music, or it forces them to pay large sums even if they only play non-RIAA music." Now take this sort of story, and apply the logic back to the debate about restrictive licensing clauses in free content. More...

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5 juin 2019

The 5-4-3 Double Play, or The Art of Conference Blogging

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The 5-4-3 Double Play, or The Art of Conference Blogging
Interestingly, I used to score baseball games when I was younger (I played Strat-o-matic baseball too). Now that my team (the Montral Expos) has vanished into nothingness, I have no reason to follow baseball any more. But I still do some conference blogging. So I found this article, describing some tips and tricks, to be of interest. More...

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5 juin 2019

What Are You, Who Are You, And How Do You Know?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What Are You, Who Are You, And How Do You Know?
I'm attending the privacy, security and trust conference taking place here in Moncton. I've written a couple of summaries, the first of the keynote this morning by Jonathon Cave from RAND Europe, and the second on the panel discussion, Security Issues and and Business Opportunities. Stephen Downes, Half an Hour July 30, 2007 [Link] [Tags: Privacy Issues, Security Issues, European Union] [Comment. More...

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5 juin 2019

Walled Gardens or Walled Hearts?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Walled Gardens or Walled Hearts?
David Wallace reflects on the new openness that Facebook creates. See also Kent Newsome, who writes, "I simply cannot describe how excited I am that Bebo is going to follow Facebook and launch a developer platform". More...

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