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7 mai 2019

I Believe the Curriculum Will Be Free, But...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. I Believe the Curriculum Will Be Free, But...
Rob Reynolds offers a detailed response to my comments from yesterday: "Downes said that my original argument 'is a bit like being skeptical about Wikipedia because Britannica has hired all the encyclopedia authors,' but that was not my meaning at all. I am not skeptical about the possibility of a free curriculum because all the authors already work for publishers, but rather because I know how hard it is to foster widespread, voluntary collaboration on projects among faculty and administrators". More...

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7 mai 2019

Session 3 – Secure Identity Management

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Session 3 – Secure Identity Management
Craig Blaha appears to be covering a conference, though I can't determine which conference. Anyhow, this item caught my eye, as being representative of exactly the wrong way to approach online identity management. More...

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7 mai 2019

Seminars on Academic Computing

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Seminars on Academic Computing
Alan Levine and Cyprian Lomas have a conference blogging thing going using SubEthaEdit here at the SAC conference in Snowmass; I've linked to his main site and you can follow the headlines from there. More...

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7 mai 2019

Principles of Distributed Representation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Principles of Distributed Representation
PowerPoint slides (938K) and MP3 Audio (13m) of my talk today at SAC. (I talk about the changing conception of knowledge, the idea of knowing (and learning) as a network phenomenon, and how that changes how we should approach metadata and in particular learning object metadata. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, August 9, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

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7 mai 2019

University as Author?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. University as Author?
Coverage of a case in Kansas in which the state's supreme court is to decide whether public universities can simply assert that it owns all intellectual property produced by professors, in effect treating their books, inventions and other work as 'work for hire'. More...

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7 mai 2019

Rich Media >> Get Rich Quick

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rich Media >> Get Rich Quick
Though the term 'rich media' has been around for a while it is only recently that the push toward rich media has begun to acquire meme status. Of course 'rich media' could mean anything from a lecture streamed using Breeze to a podcast to an immersive simulation. This article covers the push to introduce rich media and outlines some of the 'stumbling points' - bandwidth, of course, but also pedagogical issues. More...

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7 mai 2019

What Education Can Learn From Open Source

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What Education Can Learn From Open Source
Short article summarizing a slightly longer article that outlines three major lessons education can learn from open source: the use of OS technology, the value of 'amateur' work, and the nature of 'bottom-up' knowledge and development. More...

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7 mai 2019

More About Designing for the Long Tail

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. More About Designing for the Long Tail
Michael Feldstein offers a couple of posts that reflect exactly the issue I am working with as I try to compose my talk at SAC tomorrow. "We need a system that is optimized toward slotting in new pieces as they become available, not as an after-thought or an add-on, but as a fundamental characteristic of the system." Yes, yes, but what does that mean. More...

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7 mai 2019

Break Down the (Fire) Wall!!

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Break Down the (Fire) Wall!!
I was at a government office not too long ago (the nature of which shall remain hidden) and during some of the discussions the subject of Flickr came up. Imagine my surprise to find access to the site blocked by network administrators. Leigh Blackall comments on this increasingly pervasive trend, a trend that is characterized as much by its ridiculous application as by its fundamentally undemocratic nature. More...

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7 mai 2019

Of Course the Curriculum Will Be Free -- It Always Has Been

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Of Course the Curriculum Will Be Free -- It Always Has Been
Discussion of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's contention that the curriculum must be free. Most of the article examines "the real gap that exists between what Jimmy Wales predicts and where we are currently," pointing especially to the entrenched role played by publishers. The "gap" involves the participation of instructors, better repositories, and some way to make money. More...

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