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13 décembre 2018

Mobile and Open: A Manifesto

Mobile and Open: A Manifesto
One of the differences between mobile computing and the desktop kind is that mobile hardware is generally contained in a sealed package - you don't open up your mobile phone and reinstall the operating system, for example. More...
13 décembre 2018

E-Learning and Sustainability

E-Learning and Sustainability
This paper "review(s) major trends in e-learning and attempt(s) to draw out their implications in terms of the sustainability of e-learning." The author "stresse(s) the interaction between the development and implementation of technology, the organization of education and educational institutions and the role of teachers and trainers." The whole sustainability angle doesn't do a lot for me (because this is usually a prelude to cutting support for something, or privatizing it), but as Scott Leslie points out, the paper "could well be considered a survey of most of the discussions I have seen unfolding both in ed tech blogs and other forums for the past 2 years." Certainly, the author goes beyond the traditional discussions of learning objects and online courses, exploring some of the new models and arguments found here and elsewhere. More...
13 décembre 2018

Six Apart to buy Live Journal

Six Apart to buy Live Journal
A seismic event in the blogsphere, Six Apart - the company that produces Moveable Type, a popular blogging software, is about to acquire Live Journal (at least according to this report), one of the largest blog hosting companies in the world with about 6.5 million users. More...
13 décembre 2018

Putting Context Into Context

Putting Context Into Context
According to the author, design requires an understanding of context, and context has to do with more than just information about the current user and the current interface: the user may use the same tool in different situations, creating different contexts. For example, the user will have different goals at different times, be playing a different role, have different background resources and information, be in a different physical environment, and more. More...
13 décembre 2018

Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship

Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship
Not sure how long this has been available, but it just passed before my eyes on a mailing list and was well worth the look (and somewhat lengthy download). This long, detailed and image-rich powerpoint presentation is mostly a discussion of the Open Archives Initiative (though other services, such as Cite-Seer, are also mentioned). More...
13 décembre 2018

Blogging from the Bottom: A Cautionary Tale

Blogging from the Bottom: A Cautionary Tale
The most recent edition of Lore, a journal for teachers of writing, is online and features a section on blogging in education consisting of a baker's dozen short articles. Consisting of first person reflections of the blogging experience, the quality is, um, spotty. More...
13 décembre 2018

Can Many Agents Answer Questions Better Than One?

Can Many Agents Answer Questions Better Than One?
James Surowiecki, in The Wisdom of Crowds, proposes that a group of people answering a question emsemble can produce a better answer than an expert answering a question on his or her own. This could be a quirk of people, but the theory says it shouldn't be. Enter this paper, in which the author (without reference to Surowiecki) asks whether a group of computer agents can answer a natural language question better than a single agent. More...
13 décembre 2018

HICSS-38: Persistent Conversations Workshop

HICSS-38: Persistent Conversations Workshop
Lilia Efimova is blogging the HICSS conference in Hawaii, offering as a preliminary some observations on why people blog conferences (to continue the conversation, to share with people who aren't there, to preserve a record for the future). More...
13 décembre 2018

Mired in a Blog

Mired in a Blog
I have long maintained that a society is not democratic if its institutions are not democratic. It follows, therefore, that society is not very democratic, as most of our institutions employ a much older form of governance. More...
13 décembre 2018

Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver
Short article on a neat idea - using podiums in wired school classrooms, instead of teachers' desks. And podiums are so cheap, I'm thinking of getting one for my home. More...
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