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21 juin 2019

Weblogs in the Classroom

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors: Weblogs in the Classroom, Department of Education and Training Western Australia May 5, 2006

Just exploring. I was following up some commentary on Christopher Sessums's piece (see below) by Mark Berthelemy, who in turn linked to an item on reflective writing by Jo McLeay. Added her to my aggregator. He also linked to JOH Blogs, which doesn't appear to have an RSS feed, which is too bad. More...

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21 juin 2019

Skypecasting Is Here

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Luigi Canali De Rossi[Edit][Delete]: Skypecasting Is Here, Robin Good [Edit][Delete] May 4, 2006

Useful and comprehensive summary, based on user testing, of Skype's new conferencing system, Skypecasts. In a nutshell, the system allows you to broadcast an audio conference to up to a hundred people for free; you can allow everyone to talk at once, or you can mute the audience and give the microphone to one person at a time. More...

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21 juin 2019

Fear and Loathing on the Internet

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tim Stahmer: Fear and Loathing on the Internet, Assorted Stuff May 4, 2006

"User-generated content is very difficult to manage and control." This assessment comes in the midst of a user rebellion at YouTube against increased censorship and control. Tim Stahmer argues, "These fears revolve around the uncertainty that arises when high powered communications tools become available to almost anyone. Institutions and companies accustomed to manipulating their audiences are finding that control slipping away." Control of the message appears to be everything, and even benign and well-intentioned criticisms are being stifled. As Wes Fryer observes, "Schools are technocratic, top-down, static institutions which generally do not value change, innovation, or creativity". More...

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21 juin 2019

The Closing of the U.S. Open University

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Katrina A. Meyer[Edit][Delete]: The Closing of the U.S. Open University, EDUCAUSE Quarterly [Edit][Delete] May 4, 2006

Interesting article. I personally wonder about the desire on the part of OU to enter the U.S. market at all - it's not like there's a shortage of universities there. And as the article makes clear, U.S. accredication is a significant hurdle. Also, "for the USOU, recruiting one student took approximately $4,000 to $5,000." This money, in my view, would have been better spent elsewhere. More...

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21 juin 2019

Drupal as Learning Object Repository

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Drupal as Learning Object Repository, May 4, 2006

D'Arcy Norman explains, "There is no need for CAREO (or its ilk) anymore. Other solutions have evolved and surpassed what we came up with as a prototype Learning Object Repository. If I was to start an organizational/institutional/regional repository of resources, I'd just use a copy of Drupal. Yes. Drupal. It provides every feature that CAREO does/did, and many many more that we would have never had time to implement." I have used Drupal; I wrote the themes and CSS for OurMedia in it. It's pretty good, though I would prefer it were written in Perl rather than PHP. More...

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21 juin 2019

Coming of Age - An Introduction to the New World Wide Web

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Terry Freedman, ed.[Edit][Delete]: Coming of Age - An Introduction to the New World Wide Web, May 3, 2006

It's nice to see a publication like this made freely available. The book is an overview of Web 2.0 technologies for educators and features contributors from a number of people with expertise in the field. This is one of those projects that is good for everybody - readers get a valuable reference, while the contributors benefit from the exposure and the networking that such a project supports. More information is available here - note that the navigation on this page is to the left and is a bit difficult to use. More...

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21 juin 2019

Digital Repositories Roadmap: Looking Forward

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rachel Heery and Andy Powell: Digital Repositories Roadmap: Looking Forward, Ukoln May 3, 2006

An ambitious paper that will challenge your thinking. "This roadmap presents a vision for 2010 in which a high percentage of newly published UK scholarly output is made available on an open access basis and in which there is a growing recognition of the benefits of making research data, learning resources and other academic content freely available for sharing and re-use." That's where it starts, at least, but as you get into the depths of the paper you see more and more discussion of the bundling of complex objects, digital object identifiers, and of digital rights management (see esp. section 6.3). More...

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21 juin 2019

What if Everything We Think About School is Wrong?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Albert Ip: What if Everything We Think About School is Wrong?, Random Walk in E-Learning [Edit][Delete]Random Walk in E-Learning [Edit][Delete] May 3, 2006

"A wild animal, as opposed to a caged animal, knows chaos and can adapt to it." These words conclude this video, well worth watching, about Fairhaven, an alternative democratic school. A lot of my own thoughts are captured here. For example, "Learning is what happens when you're doing something else." And I like the thoughts, expressed here, about how being forced to learn leads you to allow yourself to be forced into other things later in life. More...

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21 juin 2019

Emerging Technologies for Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: Emerging Technologies for Learning, BECTA [Edit][Delete] May 3, 2006

Released in late April, this booklet, containing short articles on five topics (mobile learning, ambient web, human computer interaction, social networking and the broadband home) offers a good and insightful look at trends in learning technology. I like this: "For today s class we will be building a 3D map of the village. First, we'll collect pictures, sounds and anything else of interest from each street. Split into teams of four and take your camera-phones with you. By mid-day we will have built our own virtual map, and then we can get together to plan which parts to research further." Yeah. Forget math and geography and one-hour classes. More...

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21 juin 2019

Shrewd University OA Policy Advice from the Antipodes

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Arthur Sale[Edit][Delete]: Shrewd University OA Policy Advice from the Antipodes, BOAI Forum [Edit][Delete] May 2, 2006

This item, a post on the BOAI discussion list, offers a slew of good advice on author support for institutional repositories. Worth noting, as Arthur Sale says, "the vast majority of academics (85%+) are non-participants and will seize any excuse however spurious to avoid doing any extra work." And so, "Don't expend significant amounts of time and money on author-support until you've got the mandate. It is pretty much wasted anyway, like flushing dollar notes down the toilet". More...

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