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10 octobre 2019
10 octobre 2019
E-Learning in the Trades
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. E-Learning in the Trades
Australia's Flexible Learning Network has launched a new site, E-Learning in the Trades. "This is a resource to inspire and support you to take the e-learning path in your teaching practice." The core of the site consists of six case studies. More...
10 octobre 2019
YouTube Video Awards
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. YouTube Video Awards
What surprises me is that I have seen five of the seven winners, and even linked to some here. My favorite of the year, Kiwi, won for 'cutest video'. I actually subscribed to Terra Naomi's feed; she won best music video. I had also seen Free Hugs, Ask a Ninja and the OKGo treadmill dance. Which means the awards show functioned perfectly: to validate my selection of videos to watch by showing me that other people watched them too. More...
10 octobre 2019
Tinkering with the system won’t help reinvent the purpose of education
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tinkering with the system won’t help reinvent the purpose of education
Jenny Mackness, Jenny Connected, 2019/02/11
I listened to the same episode of Brian Alexander's Future Tech Forum (all episode recordings here) and had the same reaction Jenny Mackness did. "The event was advertised as ‘reinventing education’, but for me the discussion was more about how and what changes could be made to the existing education system (in this case the American education system)... the future of education is not the same thing as the future of collegess". More...
10 octobre 2019
What's The Value of OLDaily?
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What's The Value of OLDaily?
Sephen Downes, 2019/02/11
I wrote on Mastodon a few days ago, "I'm not sure anyone has any status in online learning any more. I'm wondering, maybe it's not even a discipline any more. There's learning analytics and open pedagogy and experience design, etc., but I'm not sure there's a cohesive community looking at what we used to call ed tech or e-learning." [Comment]. More...
10 octobre 2019
Obsessed with Putting Ink On Paper
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Obsessed with Putting Ink On Paper
OK, in the end, this has nothing to do with online learning, has nothing to do with why I clicked on it in the first place, and in the end, is an advertisement. But what really strikes me about this piece - which is about software that writes musical notation - is the way the author is concerned about the details. Now I have just spent all day writing code and looking at some editing, which means I've spent all day being really picky about semi-colons and the proper reference of pronouns. Picky stuff which (to be honest) most people don't care about. But - and this article makes the point so nicely - the beauty is in the details (same with Harold Jarche's sailboat - it wasn't the 50K, it was the zillion hours spent making sure every board was exactly right). So that's worth passing along. Now - why did I click on this in the first place. More...
10 octobre 2019
The Characteristics of High-Performance Personal Networks
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Characteristics of High-Performance Personal Networks
Well the website's a bit wonky right now - it's a combination of some less than perfect code and getting slammed by search engines (if you get 1000 hits a day, 999 of them will be search engine hits - that's a real challenge for anyone writing software). (Or maybe it's a DOS - I 'killall' but then all the httpd threads start right up again... sigh). Ross Dawson attempts to identify what makes personal networks work well, and hits on a number of things familiar to readers of these pages - things like diversity and dynamism. The article also describes "six key behaviors that create energizing relationships" - things like "have and communicate a compelling vision", "seek and acknowledge quality contributions", "give genuine attention to people." Well - ok. But, it seems to me, if you do these things in order to create or cultivate a personal network, they will be hollow and strained. Rather, these activities are ends in themselves - and a personal network is just one of the things that grows out of them. More...
10 octobre 2019
ELI Conference - Haptic Force Feedback On Learning
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ELI Conference - Haptic Force Feedback On Learning
This is pretty neat - an interface device (like a mouse, only much more complex) that not only lets you control objects on the screen, but which responds with resistance as appropriate. It's the same basic technology as rumble-sticks but with more fine-tuned responses that merely on-off and intensity. Jeff VanDrimmelen says there's no reason not to have one now, as they're becoming mainstream. Well, I guess I'd wait for some applications to actually develop the interface. More...
10 octobre 2019
Sense-Making and Path-Finding
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sense-Making and Path-Finding
I'm not sure that I completely agree with this diagram (it's the linear nature that bothers me), but it would take a subtle criticism to find the flaws. It is certainly worthy of reflection a and for cutting and pasting into your favorite slide show. More...
10 octobre 2019
OER Discussion Update...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OER Discussion Update...
Brian Lamb offers his own answerrs to recent questions on the nature of learning and open educational resources (OERs) and links in passing to the new OERderves blog. Cute name. "Even with the dramatic changes in the broader techno-cultural landscape in the past ten years," he asks, "how much has essentially changed with universities in the western world? Isn't it all too easy to imagine universities remaining essentially unchanged - or at least clinging to business as usual - ten, even twenty years from now?". More...
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