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12 juillet 2019

Work in Progress - Invitation to Comment

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: Work in Progress - Invitation to Comment, Jisc [Edit][Delete]JISC [Edit][Delete] August 7, 2006
Page linking to a large collection of materials from the JISC Trust in Digital Repositories project, with an invitation to comment. Thus I spent my morning today.
Begin with The TrustDR Project: a plain-english description for project partners (all documents are in MS Word). It's a good overview with a nice set of references. See especially section 4. But readers should note some themes that permeate these discussions, themes that just don't ring right - the idea that computer scientists believe that "there is some 'magic bullet' type of solution to the task of running a repository," the assumption "that an institutional digital repository of learning objects is a form of digital library," and the idea that institutional top-down management is required to make repositories work. And it seems off that the athors would claim that "Google algorithms make extensive use of 'traditional' metadata to work their magic," which so far as I know is false (certainly the vast majority of web pages have no metadata). More...

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12 juillet 2019

Truth In Advertising - Lies We Tell Our Students And Faculty

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. StevenB[Edit][Delete]: Truth In Advertising - Lies We Tell Our Students And Faculty, ACRLog [Edit][Delete] August 7, 2006
I reads this item as I was comtemplating a response to the next, and something about it bothered me. And it's this. The author tells us that librarians are misleading us when they say libraries can be like Google. "We will tell people it may take them longer than 60 seconds to find valuable information. We will tell them our library databases are not the same as Google..." And I want to know, why not? Why does it take so long to find stuff? Why isn't the stuff accessible through this collection? Why is it that what the library offers me is mostly a set of excuses and limitations, instead of what I really want, fast and easy and relevant access. More...

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12 juillet 2019

Discussion: Stephen Downes

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. George Siemens and Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: Discussion: Stephen Downes, Elearnspace [Edit][Delete]ELearnSpace [Edit][Delete] August 7, 2006
George Siemens and I had a nice discussion this afternoon about the changing nature of knowledge. "We started by discussing the need for a new epistemology...explored artificial intelligence, democracy, wikipedia, new models of societal organization, knowledge as a product/process, the nature of learning today, neuroscientific view of cognition, and other light breezy subjects :)." 68 megabytes, but if you give me some time I'll have a lighter version here. Once I download the original. ;) [Tags: Podcasting]. More...

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12 juillet 2019

Microsoft Kickstarts the Live Brand

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ross Dawson[Edit][Delete]: Microsoft Kickstarts the Live Brand, Trends in the Living Networks [Edit][Delete] August 5, 2006
The flagship of Microsoft's 'Live' brand, Microsoft Live Spaces, has just launched. The first thing it did when I went to access it was to lose my original Spaces site, forcing me to replace it with a new one - I have no idea how to get the old one back, so it's destined to languish, unreachable, until the end of time. More...

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12 juillet 2019

10 Drupal Modules You Can't Live Without

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Nick Lewis[Edit][Delete]: 10 Drupal Modules You Can't Live Without, Nick Lewis: The Blog [Edit][Delete] August 5, 2006
As I get nearer and nearer to actually doing work to adopt Drupal (read: maybe when I get back from circling the globe in September) articles like this are catching my interest. Especially the description of the CCK module, at number 9. More...

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12 juillet 2019

Setting the IFPI Record Straight

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Michael Geist[Edit][Delete]: Setting the IFPI Record Straight, August 5, 2006
Michael Geist does his usual hard-nosed analysis of a music industry public statement, leaving sliced and diced and bleeding on the floor. So he should; "In explaining the situation in Canada, the IFPI resorts to a series of mischaracterizations and omissions." My problem is that the politicians read the IFPI reports, and not the rebuttals. When's the last time a politician ever read these pages, for example. More...

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12 juillet 2019

Culture Jams, Culture Preserves

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Paul B Hartzog[Edit][Delete]: Culture Jams, Culture Preserves, Many 2 Many [Edit][Delete] August 5, 2006
If you're a Star Trek fan, be sure to check out the home-made Star Trek episodes on this site. If you're not, it is still worth reflecting that the fan video is every big as good as the commercial product. Which means that the message in culture is no longer the sole domain of the commercial media. And that is why we have copyright battles, patent fights, and the rest. More...

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12 juillet 2019

Desire2Learn Patent Page, Blackboard Violating Australian Law?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: Desire2Learn Patent Page, Blackboard Violating Australian Law?, August 5, 2006
The Blackboard story continues non-stop, so I'm throwing together an extra issue today to keep up. While I'm at it, I'm giving you a glimpse of my Saturday reading, a little more geeky than the usual weekday fare - but remember, this is a day off for me, so this is what I'm reading for fun.
Anyhow, first thing this morning came an email from Desire2Learn head John Baker letting me know about the company's patent information page. The text of the message reporduced here a few days ago may be found on the site, along with the full text of the patent and the letter of complaint. It also includes links to 477 pages of communication between Blackboard and the USPTO. More...

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12 juillet 2019

Dubai Rating of International Branch Campuses

The growth of branch campuses throughout the world has made their evaluation and accreditation increasingly important. More...

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12 juillet 2019

Asia Pacific: Korean Universities Take the Lead for Innovation

The latest edition of Reuters’ Asia Pacific Most Innovative Universities is dominated by South Korea. First on this year’s list of 75 universities is Seoul National University, followed by the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). More...

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