By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Help Joy help you. On the unusability of internal systems.
Leisa Reichelt, disambiguity, Jul 25, 2014
I went through SAP training a couple of weeks ago and now I inhabit the same world Joy does - working with a software system with a paper notebook by my side (I also took extensive digital notes, which means I will have two support systems). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Responses to Personalization and Monopolies
David Wiley, iterating toward openness, Jul 25, 2014
I'm not enthusiastic about David Wiley's definition of personalization (" personalization comes down to being interesting") but I think he shares a great example of personalization done wrong: " Imagine if your only option for watching movies was to login to Netflix and watch the movies it recommended to you, in the order it recommend them. Who wants that? Who would pay for that?" Exactly. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. I am a young person who solves crossword puzzles and maybe you should be one too
Boone B Gorges, Teleogistic, Jul 25, 2014
It's probably not for everyone but as Boone Georges says, crossword puzzles are great for augmenting pattern recognition skills. I don't solve nearly the number he does, but I enjoy my Sunday Times crossword - I save them and solve them on flights to Montreal or Toronto (which gives me about a two-hour window). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Submitting a doctoral thesis on online learning? Some things to keep in mind
Tony Bates, online learning and distance edcuation resources, Jul 24, 2014
I can't imagine doing a project in the manner described by Tony Bates, and was well into full-blown scepticism after reading the section on sampling and statistics when I encountered this question: is the PhD process broken. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Chapter 2. The nature of knowledge and the implications for teaching
Tony Bates, B.C. Open Textbooks, Jul 24, 2014
This is chapter two of an open textbook being developed by Tony Bates, but I confess that i would have approached the subject matter - the nature of knowledge - very differently. The debates over the yeaars concern less the classification of knowledge and are concerned more about the nature, creation and justification of knowledge. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
William Deresiewicz, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118747/ivy-league-schools-are-overrated-send-your-kids-elsewhere, Jul 24, 2014
As I commented on Twitter the other day, I rarely agree with what I read in New Republic, but this article hits much more than it misses. So while you shouldn't consider this post to be a blanket endorsement of everything in the article, it is certainly recommended. More...
Cette analyse propose une approche a minima des similitudes entre les différentes nomenclatures. En effet, la comparaison s’est faite sur les noms de revues extraits de chacune des nomenclatures après un nettoyage sommaire des listes. Il est possible qu’en raison d’orthographes différentes certaines revues n’aient pas été reconnues comme identiques. Il s’agit seulement d’un constat chiffré qui donne le nombre de revues communes ou uniques aux différentes nomenclatures mais il n’y a pas eu, à ce jour, d’exploration plus approfondie sur les revues elles-mêmes.Les sciences humaines et sociales qui relèvent du domaine 6 (SHS 6) du Hcéres sont l’Histoire (Mondes Anciens et Contemporains), l’Histoire de l’art et l’Archéologie comprenant la Préhistoire, l’étude des paléoenvironnements et l’Anthropologie biologique. Elles sont représentées principalement par trois sections du Comité National du CNRS (CoNRS), à savoir les sections 31, 32 et 33 et par trois sections du Comité National des Universités (CNU), à savoir les sections 20, 21 et 22.One of the main reasons is that patent data are collected to identify the novelty of a invention and to make it public as a new stock of knowledge for further inventors, whatever the applicants. The process of the quality of information is then, first of all, focused on the data regarding scientific and legal information. Thus for instance, every patent has an unique ID number in order to identify perfectly the invention and to be able to establish scientific links between patents. By contrast, no quality check is applied to applicants’ names and address-es, and in some cases (US data for instance) apart from the country even address data are unavailable. Thus identifying (called afterwards disambiguating) existing applicants by name or address, in order to build up a unique identifier for each patenting entity, is not a simple task.L’objectif de cette charte est d’expliciter les critères d’une démarche scientifique rigoureuse et intègre, applicable notamment dans le cadre de tous les partenariats nationaux et internationaux./https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
