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26 mars 2019

Central Queensland University’s Course Management Systems: Accelerator or Brake in Engaging Change?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Central Queensland University’s Course Management Systems: Accelerator or Brake in Engaging Change?
Think about this: "Nearly 45 percent of the respondents believed that the university has implemented Blackboard as an enterprise system as a way to place additional controls on teaching and learning." This appears in the middle of this fascinating article contrasting teleological (or goal-based) and ateleological (or process-based) development methodologies (where 'development' may refer to design, delivery, learning...) and correspondingly centralized and decentralized processes. More...

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26 mars 2019

Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance, and Benchmarking

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance, and Benchmarking
A special issue of IRRODL has been released. I cover five items, beginning with this one. Good overview article describing the development, choice and use of two e-learning quality frameworks, with an account of some of the dangers (the 'dark side') of using a quality framework. More...

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26 mars 2019

Electronic Publishing >> Book 'Em

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Electronic Publishing >> Book 'Em
Useful article discussing electronic publishing in universities: online books, online assignment submission, learning content databases (good links here to a list of commercial academic databases). Good discussion of the move toward open access, noting the institutions' frustration with commercial content. More...

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26 mars 2019

When Blobjects Rule the Earth

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. When Blobjects Rule the Earth
Scott submits this nice link to my discussion area with reference to the 'Drugs that Speak to You' item from yesterday. Bruce Sterling, a noted science fiction and cyberpunk author discusses the concept of gizmos and spimes, objects of the sort described in the other story. Spimes, especially, are interesting; you buy then (where else?) at the drug store, and thereafter the spimes follow you. More...

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26 mars 2019

Are Instructional Designers Software Architects in Disguise?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Are Instructional Designers Software Architects in Disguise?
I am in the main sympathetic with this article as in comparing the fields of software architecture and instructional design it seems to reveal the deficiencies of each. Posted as an ITForum discussion paper, it has drawn responses mostly along the lines of assertions that 'instructional design is not just another branch of engineering'. More...

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26 mars 2019

Create A Graph

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Create A Graph
Via Pete MacKay's Teacher List, this site is a nifty tool that clearly illsutrates the relation between data and graphs. I would like to see something like this accept syndicated data from remote feeds. More...

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26 mars 2019

From E-learning to E-knowledge

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. From E-learning to E-knowledge
Some good stuff in this discussion of the relationship between e-learning and content management. For example: "knowledge-based economies are driven by a free flow and intermeshing of data, information, and knowledge, where value is created from an ever-increasing reservoir of abundance. In such circumstances where resources are themselves not scarce value must be created in novel ways." And his account of the facets of knowledge is basically sound. More...

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26 mars 2019

13 States Agree to Raise H.S. Standards

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 13 States Agree to Raise H.S. Standards
Without lingering on this item, let me observe that it's like making your car go faster by sticking an extra number on the dial of its speedometer. More...

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26 mars 2019

Bodcasting

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Bodcasting
"The RSS Bubble is here," writes Steve Gillmor, and it's hard not to agree. While I am pleased at the long-awaited recognition of content syndication, let me assert right now that RSS is not the short-cut to easy riches, that it will not replace everything that came before it, that it is likely to get mired in lawsuits over content and use, that if you are just writing your business plan, you're too late, and that if you invest now, you will probably lose your money. More...

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26 mars 2019

Future of FLOSSE: Interview with Stephen Downes - Part 2

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Future of FLOSSE: Interview with Stephen Downes - Part 2
This is the second part of my interview with Teemu Arina. The sound quality is so-so, but it was the first experience for both of us recording a Skype conversation. Arina summarizes, "Stephen talks about communities and what is actually a community and what kinds of communities people belong to. The internet allows people to pick very specific communities by topic out there. Communities are not anymore tied to a place but are more like networks, clusters and clouds." Direct links to MP3s: Part 1, Part 2. Interestingly, people looking for clarification of my Northern Voice talk, which was actually given after this interview was recorded, will find it here. By Teemu Arina, FLOSSE, March 2, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

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