By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. RSS Feeds
Introductory article describing RSS for readers of a national business magazine. The article is essentially composed of clippings from various other articles I have authored on the subject and was assembled Pletsch Prose (my thanks to them for that). By Stephen Downes, IT Business, Apriul 27, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Moodlebug
Mad about Moodle? Then this new Moodle blog may be the place for you. The author, Josie Fraser, has been keeping another blog, EdTechUK for some time. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Horseless Carriage...
"It's all got to be about the individual. And my preferred way of expressing that is that a weblog is a representation of a person." This is my view as well, which is why I begin to get my hackles up when people start talking about corporate blogs, or assigned blogs, or edited blogs. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Defining an E-Learning Strategy
Good strategy: "Your first step is not to select an LMS and the technology for creating your courses. Before you even think about technology, get a good grasp of your corporate business goals. Define the vision, business and operational strategy for the learning group. Then, making use of whatever tools you may have, define learning objectives by curriculum and individual learning experience." This article has more. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Turning fantasy into a reality that helps others
Coverage in a Taipei newspaper of Luc Chu's Opensource Opencourse Prototype System (OOPS), which is translating MIT's OpenCourseware into Chinese. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Adult Literacy Meets Technology (AL-T)
New blog started for members of the adult literacy - technology mailing list, hosted by the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium (ALNARC). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Technology Source Archives Are Under Construction
For those of you who missed the Technology Source archives, fear not, they're coming back. In this email to ITForum editor James Morrison explains where they went and wehere they're going. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Old Design for an eLearning Aggregator
Study this item carefully - this is very much what e-learning of the future will look like. Scott Wilson bases his approach on the design of social networking sites such as 43 Things, then inserts an interface with learning resources. I like his design - clean, simple, colourful. This is just a concept, but - note well - all of this could be designed with existing technologies. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Google Print Search
You can now search Google Books, and the masters behind the search engine have done it right. Pointing to this resource, Aaron Swartz offers a sample search. Clicking on the search brought me (surprisingly) a useful result, this Perl text from O'Reilly, Perl Template Toolkit. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Social Computing Symposium: BlogTrace Demo
Interesting work on the mapping of weblog communities. The idea here is that a 'knowledge flow' is the communication of some knowledge, typically a natural language post on a weblog as viewed by a reader. More...