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23 mai 2019

VLE Surveys

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Martin Jenkins, Tom Browne and Richard Walker: VLE Surveys, UCISA December 14, 2005

Stuart Yeates reports, "A new UCISA report has Moodle and Bodington each with 8% of the installed base, beaten soundly by Blackboard(43), WebCT(37) and in-house developed systems." That's a bit of a gloss on what is a very complex report, packed full of usage statistics. Most interesting to me is the freefall of FirstClass (from 29% to 8% in four years) and the increase of in-house systems (from 11% to 38% in the same time). More...

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23 mai 2019

Why Does 'Freesound' Succeed When so Many Learning Object Repositories fail?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Scott Leslie: Why Does 'Freesound' Succeed When so Many Learning Object Repositories fail?, Ed Tech Post December 14, 2005

So we got a foot of snow overnight in Moncton, which of course made it the perfect day to pack myself into the bus and ship myself off to Fredericton, where I'll be at meetings during the day tomorrow (of course I surf during the meetings; how do you thing the newsletter will get published?). Anyhow, the sort of thing I'll be talking about tomorrow is the sort of thing raised here by Scott Leslie as he asks why Freesound - a sound sampling service - is a success where learning objects are less so. It's not interface, it's not metadata - rather, it seems to be a combination of the license (which encourages reuse, natch) and the data format. More...

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23 mai 2019

Identity Management: The State of the Practice in Higher Education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. J Ron Yanosky: Identity Management: The State of the Practice in Higher Education, ECAR / EDUCAUSE December 13, 2005

Useful presentation surveying the use of and plans for identity management at (mostly) U.S. universities. Some items of interest: the major reason universities are looking at identity management is for reasons of security and privacy (80 percent); enhanced services comes second (60 percent). More...

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23 mai 2019

Is DITA Going to Tip?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. JoAnn Hackos: Is DITA Going to Tip?, Center for Information Development Management December 13, 2005

This is new to me, so I thought I'd pass it along (it never ceases to amaze me how much is new to me). JoAnn Hackos writes, "Obviously, something else must influence XML authoring if it is to move past the tipping point. That 'something else' is arguably DITA.... it provides us with an informational architecture standard around topic-based authoring that is unique to technical information". More...

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23 mai 2019

OK, OK, I Finally Get It...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Brian Lamb: OK, OK, I Finally Get It..., Abject learning December 13, 2005

Yahoo! announces a partnership with Moveable Type. Linking to the story and elsewhere, Brian Lamb comments, "It will be interesting to see how well these apps are integrated into the interface, and if being under the same roof means these toys will play better with each other as tent-poles under the Yahoo Hosting Big Top than they do out in the world wild web... Interesting that it's a hosting arrangement, not an acquisition". More...

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23 mai 2019

New Educational Methods for Organizational and Enterprise Learning Derived from Self- Organizing Systems Theory and Practice

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. David L. Passmore: New Educational Methods for Organizational and Enterprise Learning Derived from Self- Organizing Systems Theory and Practice, Pennsylvania State University December 13, 2005

Jeremy Hiebert links to this article looking at informal learning as it develops in Slashdot. The author approaches the subject with what I think is the right perspective, observing, "Systems function, at times, in ways that cannot be attributed to any of the individual parts of the system separately. Such systems are termed emergent systems..." And more, he argues, such systems are self-organizing systems. More...

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23 mai 2019

Would You Like Freedom Fries With That?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. roseg: Would You Like Freedom Fries With That?, randomselections December 13, 2005

The point of this item - with which I am in sympathy - is that not only is copyright expanding, but its increasingly pervasive nature is becoming a medium for social control. To think of where copyright has gone in the last decade or so, "Imagine buying a bed and being told that you were only licensed to use it for yourself". More...

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23 mai 2019

Throwing Stones at the Wiki Glass House

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Alan Levine: Throwing Stones at the Wiki Glass House, Cogdogblog December 12, 2005

I've been contributing to the discussion of this item, a commentary on Will Thalheimer's Are Wiki's Inherently Flawed? (a good blog, and added to my aggregator). Thalheimer's proposition, essentially, is that knowledge producing systems need to be managed. "The more our communication channels have validators who correct inaccuracies, the more we tend to move toward the truth". More...

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23 mai 2019

Nothing Feels Good

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tom Hoffman: Nothing Feels Good, ESchool News December 12, 2005

The main point of this oddly titled article is that "A lot of the anxiety we're seeing about Myspace.com is exactly, exactly the same fear and loathing of groups of teenagers that for decades has shut down teen dance clubs and the like all over the country." As an unreformed underground publisher and rabble rouser, this article not only speaks to me, it speaks for me. More...

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23 mai 2019

Urinal as a Learning Object

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teemu Leinonen: Urinal as a Learning Object, FLOSSE Posse December 12, 2005

My own definition of a 'learning object' is very similar to this - actually, it is exactly this, with a slightly different emphasis: "Learning object is any entity, digital or non digital, that is used for learning, education or teaching". More...

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