By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
Declan McCullagh, CNet News.com, July 30, 2013
According to this report, the "secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form." The companies (for example, Microsoft) report that they are not turning over passwords, decryption algorithms, or salts. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MOOC - La résurgence de la communauté dans l'apprentissage en ligne
Stephen Downes, May 30, 2013, REFAD, Edmunston, NB
Downloads: full text in English, full text en français. Dans cette présentation, Stephen Downes aborde la question à savoir comment les MOOC (massive open online courses) influenceront l'avenir de la formation à distance. La présentation examine de façon détaillée la nature et l'objectif des MOOC comparativement à l'enseignement traditionnel à distance. Il soutient que les MOOC représentent la résurgence de l'apprentissage communautaire et décrira comment les institutions d'éducation à distance partageront les MOOC entre elles et renforceront les interactions en ligne grâce à des services et des ressources communautaires. Share. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. On ID Tokens
Tim Bray, Ongoing, April 5, 2013
Long-time readers of OLDaily know I've had an ongoing interest in authentication, and more particularly, authentication that is lightweight and automatic. We're finally moving toward such a system, which will eventually replace passwords. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. To better understand Marines, lace up your combat boots
Community College Times, April 5, 2013
OK, this item (via Joanne Jacobs) is just a PR stunt. A week at boot camp won't even help the educators learn about boot camp, let alone learn about vets. But as I was having negative thoughts, it got me to thinking. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Four observations on how OER initiatives are modelled
Allison Littlejohn, Little by Littlejohn, April 5, 2013
Here, first, are the observations, as stated by Allison Littlejohn:
From what I've seen of MOOCs in North America, exactly the same four comments could be made. So what's wrong with that picture. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sweating the Details of a MOOC in Progress
Karen Head, The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog, April 5, 2013
I was enlisted as a 'friend of the MOOC' as the ocTEL MOOC was being prepared, and now I'm feeling guilty because I really had no time to help when they were planning, but now have comments as they're running into some opening week difficulties. But perhaps difficulties were inevitable, with or without my help. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How the Web is being body-snatched
Doc Searles, April 5, 2013
The outline-form notes are a bit hard to read, but it's worth the effort to take the time to ponder Anil Dash's comments on how we're losing the web. Take, for example, this bit: "They are gaslighting(*) the Web.
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers
Joyce Seitzinger, Cat's Pyjamas, April 4, 2013
If you use Moodle you may already be aware of this resource. But if not it's worth a look to see what people are doing with the open source learning management system (LMS). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Towards Robot Scientists for autonomous scientific discovery
Andrew Sparkes, H Plus Magazine, April 4, 2013
Interesting article about how scientists like me caan be replaced - well, not me, exactly, because I don't follow enough of a method that my work could be automated, but the process of hypothesis formation and testing in general. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MOOCs to cultivate networked textbooks part 1
Dave Cormier, Dave’s Educational Blog, April 4, 2013
Cave Cormier has observed, as have many of us, that the newer xMOOCs are mostly just online interactive textbooks. Which raises the question, what are the other kinds of MOOCs, if thought of from the perspective of textbooks. Well, something like open textbooks. But the whole domain of open textbooks - it has a long history - is fraught with difficulty. More...
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