The Impact of Open Source, Grids and Advanced Networks
The bulk of this article relates remarks by IBM's Bill Zeitler on the economics of open source. More...
7 mars 2018
7 mars 2018
What is Your Question? ... Why?
What is Your Question? ... Why?
This is a long read... around a hundred thinkers (and Alan Alda too) contribute their most pressing questions and some discussion about the nature of the questiuon and why it is important. More...
7 mars 2018
Copyright Concerns Lead the Year's Big Fusses and Flaps
Copyright Concerns Lead the Year's Big Fusses and Flaps
Survey article describing the copyright wars of the last year, a war that is mostly an exercise in futility as " those who steal creativity for a living continued their trade largely unchecked." More...
7 mars 2018
Individual Researchers Gain Access to over 300,000 IEEE Technical Articles
Individual Researchers Gain Access to over 300,000 IEEE Technical Articles
The headline sounds great - access to 300,000 technical articles! But read on and you see that your $US 35 per month allows you to read only 25 of those articles. More...
7 mars 2018
When The Web Starts Thinking For Itself
When The Web Starts Thinking For Itself
The point of this article is to sound a note of caution regarding the expected capabilities of the emerging "thinking" web. It gives an average background of the role of resource description formats (RDF) and ontologies in the storage and creation of online knowledge. More...
7 mars 2018
Mr. Chips or Microchips
Mr. Chips or Microchips
Ben wrote to me today to point to a BBC panel discussion (involving Sherry Turkle, David Reynolds, Josh Angrist and others) on the use of computers in education. As Ben pointed out, most of the discussion in the interview and the Slashdot discussion was the usual "the internet's only a tool" type of discussion. More...
7 mars 2018
Costs Negate E-learning ROI
Costs Negate E-learning ROI
I've commented on the high cost of learning management systems before, but this article is the first real sign that the mainstream is feeling the pinch. More...
7 mars 2018
How to Ruin Society
How to Ruin Society
From the honesty in journalism department, I pass along this article I wrote for my other site, NewsTrolls. It has little to do with e-learning, but lists my responses to a wide range of issues (including education) raised by Ben Stein in a recent article in Forbes. More...
7 mars 2018
Paying for Learning Objects in a Distributed Repository Model
Paying for Learning Objects in a Distributed Repository Model
One thing I like vacations is that I am able to get so much work done. A case in point is this long overdue description of how a payment system would work in a distributed learning object repository network. More...
7 mars 2018
Text-based Chat is Very Small Talk
Text-based Chat is Very Small Talk
This article points to the small number of users who would prefer to use text-based chat to obtain hlp desk support from a website instead of, say, the telephone. My own experiences with chat are mixed. I think it can work pretty well if it's up front and easy to use, but people aren't going to go looking for it. More...
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