By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. UKeU: The Final Curtain?
Seb Schmoller sent me this link to the Third Report of the Education and Skills Committee in Great Britain, a fascinating and often scathing discussion of UKeU. "UKeU did not have anyone with e-learning expertise in a senior management position." Recipe for failure. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Educating the Net Generation
I read the EDUCAUSE online book, "Educating the Net Generation" through the course of the week. I had highlighted one paper, the final piece in the book, by Chris Dede, giving it a lukewarm review. My feelings about the work as a whole are similar. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Connectivism
George Siemens launches a companion wiki for his article, Connectivism Still a bit empty, but a good starting point. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Living in a Distributed World
The MP3 of my online talk, Living in a Distributed World is now available. In this talk I contrast centralized and distributed approaches to learning technology and outline the distributed approach. The PowerPoint slides are also available, or if you wish, you can view the session directly on Elluminate. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, February 25, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Video of Teacher's Outburst is on Web
This case is a pretty dramatic illustration of the impact of technology in the classroom: a teacher's apparently inappropriate behaviour finds itself posted as a video on several websites. I don't think banning phones in the classroom is the correct response. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Government Plans to Abolish BBC Governors
The BBC appears to be headed for significant changes as a Green Paper recommends changes to its governance structure and to its decades-old mandate to "educate, inform and entertain". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. NYPL Digital Gallery
Launched today, this service from the New York Public Library puts online more than 250,000 historical images, all of which are available for free to view, download and print (but not public comercially). No doubt the server is being overwhelmed; it was frequently unavailable during the day today. Opening day jitters. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Letter to Hypathia
Spanish original. "'I can't read any Spanish newspapers; they all ask for an access key.' A man alone, locked in his library, set on saving a stack of books. 'If it has the (c) sign, don't buy it'. Let them keep their texts, their songs, their films. If they soil their work with the signature 'All rights reserved', they will be burying it forever. We will rebuild the Great Library only if we maintain its integrity, and for that we have to post all our knowledge on the Net in a doubly free manner: free of charge and free to use." Putting an entire culture under copyright kills it. ¡Ninguna entrega, ningún retratamiento. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. CanCore: in Canada and Around the World
I covered an earlier version of this paper here a few weeks ago. The list of CanCore implementations in this article, though, seems longer. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Elements of Effective e-Learning Design
In the recent discussion on ITForum I have been seeing instructional designers say that the tenets of the domain are more or less fixed and define instructional design as a distinct profession. More...
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