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13 avril 2018

Propaganda Has a New Name - Encyclopedia Britannica

Propaganda Has a New Name - Encyclopedia Britannica
The Encyclopedia Britannica is widely used in education. But what if it is trumpeting a specific political message? That is the argument presented in this article as the author surveys a number of listings and concludes, "When (the CD and DVD version of) Britannica discusses anything that is liberal, they spend half the article criticizing and refuting it. When conservative causes are presented, there is usually not such a two-sided presentation. There is no critique of the conservative worldview and its inadequacies." Some of the items are telling. More...

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13 avril 2018

elearningeuropa.info

elearningeuropa.info
Jeswein wrote me this morning to let me know that the European commissioner for education and culture, Viviane Reding, launched the elearningeuropa.info portal at the Learntec 2003 conference in Karlsruhe (Germany) a couple of days ago. More...

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13 avril 2018

Deploying the Next-Generation Enterprise Portal

Deploying the Next-Generation Enterprise Portal
If you are still interested in portals, this article provides a good guide to planning and rolling out a centralized portal. But you may want to rethink this: "The successfully deployed enterprise portal will be the single entry point for collaboration, information dissemination and communication, application functionality and interactive capabilities within and without the corporate entity." I simply don't agree. More...

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13 avril 2018

Patent Scare Hits Streaming Industry

Patent Scare Hits Streaming Industry
Yet another patent shakedown is underway, this time by a small company called Acacia which claims to hold the patent for streaming media over the internet. "It's extortion," Roe said. More...

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13 avril 2018

Copyright and the Web

Copyright and the Web
This short paper is intended to stimukate discussion at a Commonweath of Learning online forum. The major message of the paper is that, "The education community in Canada is urging its federal government to consider an amendment to the Copyright Act to allow students and educators to make effective and legal use of publicly available Internet materials as part of a programme of learning." I don't think there should be an educational exemption. More...

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13 avril 2018

Lean-In Technology, Safety Nets and Psychology

Lean-In Technology, Safety Nets and Psychology
Online learning is a "lean in technology" according to this paper, meaning that the demand mouse clicks forces the student to 'lean in' to the computer to click the mouse and type responses. But how often, and on what basis, do we make students lean in? And of course the answer is that it varies depending on the learner. More...

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13 avril 2018

Genesis Of An Anthill: Wireless Technology And Self-Organizing Systems

Genesis Of An Anthill: Wireless Technology And Self-Organizing Systems
This article, drawing on Hofstadter's description of the anthill as a self-organizing system, describes similar behaviour involving connected wireless devices. The article describes the physical conditions characteristic of such systems: a connection between small devices that is that is always on. More...

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13 avril 2018

New Breed of Bullies Torment Their Peers on the Internet

Just what we didn't need: cyber-bullying. More...

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13 avril 2018

Putting a Faculty Face on Distance Education Programs

Putting a Faculty Face on Distance Education Programs
The Triad model resurfaces in this article from Syllabus devoted to defining and describing the role of the on-site facilitator, the third link in online learning (after student and subject expert). More...

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13 avril 2018

Embrace File-sharing, or Die

Embrace File-sharing, or Die
As the summary reads: "A record executive and his son make a formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million Americans can't be wrong." What follows is an extended critique to the music industry's approach to copying (and by extension, the content industry as a whole). More...

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