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22 novembre 2019

When Educational Resources Are Open

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. When Educational Resources Are Open
Good analysis of what happens when educational resources are open (and, for that matter, why we want them to be open): "When educational resources become open into the natural intertwingularity of the Internet, their hierarchical tree forms, boxing into categories, and ordered sequences quickly break down." Creating open resourcs does not only change the structure of learning, or the structure of society, but it changes the structure of those resources themselves, and hence, of our understanding of what it means to know and to learn. "The only other place I know of where this kind of open connectivity happens is in your brain and mine. Ideas are patterns we connect from all sorts of parts and pieces floating around in memory and observation". More...

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22 novembre 2019

Best Education Blog

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Best Education Blog
The 2007 Weblog awards nominees have been announced. So far as I can judge, none of the finalists in the education category are actually about education; they are political blogs, mostly focused on U.S. K-12 educational policy, or they are blogs by educators, or by students. You have to wonder about the nomination process. Needless to say, neither this blog, nor any of the educationl blogs regularly reported here, made the cut. More...

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22 novembre 2019

Statistics Canada: 26 Percent of Canadians Use Internet for Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Statistics Canada: 26 Percent of Canadians Use Internet for Learning
If you're wondering, that works out to about 8 million Canadians, an impressive number by anyone's tally. And I would say that this figure is under-reported, missing informal learning in its definition of "education, training or school work." Still, I would make the point so strongly as th obvious advertorial content proclaiming that 80% Of Young Adults Say They Would Choose to Go Back to School Online related by the Online Universities weblog. More...

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22 novembre 2019

Remembering CAREO

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Remembering CAREO
D'arcy Norman reports that CAREO - the Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects - is being mothballed. "CAREO was important, back in 2001-2004, as a prototype. As a sandbox for trying out some of these concepts. As a place to easily host metadata and content and try the repository model. From that perspective, I think it was a huge success. Without CAREO, I would likely still be saying that we need centralized institutional repositories to tightly manage resources. But, because of CAREO, I now know that we don't need repositories at the institutional level. Personal repositories are much more powerful, effective, and manageable". More...

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22 novembre 2019

A Skeptic'S Take On Academic Blogs

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Skeptic'S Take On Academic Blogs
The sceptic's take is not so sceptical, the author having actually blogged, and not merely a critic of them. The main point - with which I am sympathetic - is that it is very difficult to conduct a rich academic discussion in the blogosphere. I think it is easier to consolidate discussions into groups (as the author describes) but this carries with it the weaknesses of groups: the sway of group loyalty, the 'circling of the wagons' mentality. Working in the large, diverse, messy, blogosphere is harder, but it is ultimately richer and deeper. More...

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22 novembre 2019

Reflections On Community The Google Video That Results Is Quite Ungainly

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Reflections On Community The Google Video That Results Is Quite Ungainly
My video for the (Re)Presenting Community 07 conference has finally been produced - goodness, what a disaster. The Mac stripped the voiceover from the screen capture, another feature of iMovie 08 (it does this for all screen capture software, making them notoriously hard on the Mac). Still, that did remove the echo, which I guess was a good thing. More...

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22 novembre 2019

Classroom of the Future Is Virtually Anywhere

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Classroom of the Future Is Virtually Anywhere
The entire tenor of this Nw York Times article is captured through the following: "Andrew Delbanco, the Columbia humanities professor, said flatly that it would be impossible to put his seminar on war and culture online because 'the energy and spontaneity of discussion among people sitting together in a small room cannot be replicated by electronic exchanges.' His statement, not surprisingly, came in an e-mail message". More...

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22 novembre 2019

Today's Learning Terrain

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Today's Learning Terrain
Nifty illustration found in the badly titled but quite interesting Rather Graphic weblog, a site that focuses on the use of visual language to communicate. I dislike the term 'e-learning 1.3' as well (it sounds way too much like Java nomenclature). What Tony Karrer described as e-learning 1.3 last year is properly a part of e-learning 2.0. More...

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22 novembre 2019

OpenID Is Not a Provisioning Engine

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OpenID Is Not a Provisioning Engine
Having a single login ID is one thing. Having attributes - such as an email address, or list of friends - that you transfer from one site to another is quite another. I have always thought that it would simply be a FOAF file derived from the login ID - that's one of the reasons why I made them URLs, and not, say, unique identifiers. If a user logged in as 'downes.livejournal.com' then their attributes should be found in 'downes.livejournal.com/foaf.xml'. But OpenID does it as a request-response style interaction. That's way too much overhead for something so simple. I think that the reason this hasn't prevailed is that people want to control who gets what attribute. My response to this is: have different identities. That's why mIDm proposed to put them in a dropdown list in the browser. More...

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22 novembre 2019

First Asus Eee PC's On Sale Today

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. First Asus Eee PC's On Sale Today
Major competition for OLPC is now on the market. Christoph Derndorfer takes a closer look at the impact of the Asus on OLPC. "As previously highlighted in Wayan's story the main differences between the various models are the size of the RAM (256MB to 1GB), the size of the flash mass-storage (2GB to 8GB), the camera and the batteries. Compare that to the OLPC project and its "one size fits all" approach and you'll realize that Asus offers more choice, both in terms of the hardware and the price per unit". More...

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