By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learner Managed Learning
George Siemens points to the website of the International Centre for Learner Managed Learning. None of the 'recently posted papers' really caught my interest. Norman Jackson's Exploring the Concept of Metalearning was OK, but Dave Pollard has been doing the same thing better for some time. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big
George Siemens writes, "It's unusual to encounter an article that knocks Google as out of synch with the nature of information online. The author of this post, however, does exactly that, stating that the web is changing too rapidly (Google's page rank system was created when blogs really didn't exist, and the web was mainly about static content)...and that by tracking the nature of the dialogue through tags and RSS, tools like technorati are effective and giving end users what they want, when they want it." Right. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Wheaties? Not so Much…
Talk about missing the point. Someone in this group blog notes the recent report noting the strong correlation between eating breakfast and doing well academically. But Slate's Amanda Schaffer responds by saying you shouldn't wake children up to eat breakfast because they suffer from shortages of sleep. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Weblog Communities - AMTEC 2005 presentation
Nice presentation by Rob Rall at AMTEC 2005 about how weblogs form learning communities. Even if you don't have time for the podcast, do take a look at the slides, which with useful animation show clearly how you can build a community even though you are not depending on a portal or community site - this is what I mean when i talk about a 'distributed community'. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Blogs We Need in Australia
I have noticed a slowdown of news from Australia, caused partly by a greater centralization and partly by recent changes in projects like the Flexible Learning Framework (does it even publish RSS feeds any more?). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Should You Finish?
An item that hits close to home for me, questioning whether it is in the best interests of some students to finish their PhD. "To consider leaving graduate school without your Ph.D. in hand does not inherently make you a failure. In fact, it could be the best decision you've made in a long while." For me that was pretty much the case. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Microsoft and RSS
The big news today is Microsoft's announcement that it will embrace RSS and its release, under a Creative Commons license, of an extension to the protocol to allow for ordered lists. There has been some scepticism in the blogosphere, justified scepticism based on the way Microsoft has trashed standards in the past. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Edmonton
So anyhow, today's special issue of OLDaily / OLWeekly is a catch-up issue. There has been so much of note happening in the field recently, too much to cover in the regular issues and too good to let pass by. So here is a good Sunday afternoon's reading for you, beginning with this set of photos from my visit to Edmonton a couple of weeks ago. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Saint John
If you were vacationing in New Brunswick today you would probably be lounging at the beach as we enjoy 35 degree (celsius) temperatures. Or maybe you'd be touring old Saint John, an industrial city with an industrial edge, but with enough history that with restoration and attention to detail it could be as well regarded as Old Quebec. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. (Critical) History of ICT in Education - And Where We Are Heading?
According to Eric Duval, technology has had to day a minimal impact on the way we learn. Why is this? To a large degree, writes the author, because the old cultures get mixed in with the new ones. More...
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