By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Executing Learning Objects, Resurrecting Sharing and Reuse
The value of this item is that it gives us a good outline of Scott Leslie's recent thinking on the use of learning objects (whatever they are). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Communities of Practice and Complexity : Conversation and Culture
Peter Bond illustrates some important underlying principles of communities of practice. Bond's graph mapping a community's degree of formalism with its 'emotional energy' looks almost exactly like a graph drawn by Francisco Varela at a session I attended in 1994 or so. Varela, though, mapped link density against information transmission. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Workflow Learning Pattern Language
Don't miss this presentation from Jay Cross, who is getting it right (and compare Cross's work to Bond's work, below). Slide 54: "Learning as optimizing one's (neural) network." Yes. Slide 39: "network evolution" and slide 33: "hyper-organization." Yes. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Development in Atlantic Canada - Culture versus Jobs
I am writing from Edmonton, where I will be speaking on Friday. Being here has allowed me to revisit old haunts and think about what it was like when I lived hear a few years ago. And about what I went to when I moved to New Brunswick. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teaching and Learning With Digital Resources: Web-Wise 2005
This month's issue of First Monday features the Web-Wise conference, running transcripts from selected papers presented at the conference. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ICT & Creativity
You could spend all day with this resource: streaming video from the ICT & Creativity conference, held in Vienna from 2-3 June 2005. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. More Nursery School Children Going Online
Well, this one is all over the wires so I may as well cove it here: 23 percent of nursury school children have been online. "Young students don't differentiate between the face-to-face world and the Internet world." They get email, they visit pre-school educational websites. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Let Me Tell You a Shibboleth
Overview of Shibboleth, a system used to transfer identity information from one institution to another in a learning resources federation. The author notes that both Moodle and Bodington (which was new to me), both open source learning management systems, support Shibboleth. More...