W3C Aopts Patent Policy
My first reaction is that the W3C has caved to the patent people. Well, I guess that's my second reaction too. The provision allows the use of patented technology in W3C standards, but with full disclosure and on a royalty free basis. More...
The Ivory Tower in the Real World
It bothers me that an educational system characterized by a continual declines in public funding is depicted as "real" - as though the alternative were somehow less than real. More...
It's time to rebuild the Internet
I found myself nodding in agreement with a number of the suggestions offered by Ray Ozzie, the developer behind Notes and Groove. Something more dynamic, depending more on structured data, and less centralized. More...
Interesting comments..
Jumping into the middle of a conversation - James Farmer quotes Lindon Parker saying, "the ground swell appears to be having little or no impact upon cheque signers... The more I look at the EduBlog space the more I think this is all falling apart through lack of interest, not on your or the other RSS/Bloggers part but on the part of the institutions that might want to implement them." There's more, but half the links aren't working from here, so you'll have to follow them for yourself. More...
Personal Webpublishing as a Reflective Conversational Tool For Self-organized Learning
On the one hand, we have all the commercial applications here (publishers, broadcasters, LMS, you know...). On the other hand, we have BlogTalk in Vienna. It's an interesting contrast - too bad I couldn't go to both. Oh well. To give you an idea of what's happening in Austria, here's Seb Fiedler's BlogTalk paper, now much revised. More...
Open Content - Open Learning
Set of web pages with links for my presentation at WEM yesterday... given my health (or lack of same) it wasn't the best presentation I've ever done... after 16 hours sleep (beginning yesterday afternoon) I feel a bit better but I'm still struggling with less than perfect health, computer problems and a general malaise, the sort of ill-will you feel toward the world when your mouse dies and everything takes longer than it should and the sites won't connect and your email program won't delete the mountain of spam that is clogging your inbox... today I worked the trade show floor. More...
WEM Summary - Day One
I always get off the airplane with a cough and a runny nose - I am probably allergic to recycled air - and so I'm suffering today after a cross-Atlantic trip. Writing the day one summary of WEM is all I can manage for now - though for those of you who want to know, I searched for about two hours for something to put in today's newsletter, found nothing of interest, and I'm just tired of looking. More...
Learning Object Discussions
Patricia McGee adds this useful footnote to last week's IFETS discussion: "The discussion about learning objects and the many issues related to them is an important one and clearly of interest to a wide audience." More...
Developing a Knowledge Capture System Based on Sharable and Self Documenting Learning Objects
This interesting paper kicks off this week's IFETS discussion. The idea is to capture and make available for reuse the knowledge created by students diuring the course of a class. Those same students could also review previously created knowledge. More...
WebCT Campus Edition Version 4.0 - Key Features
Click on the 'Learining object demo' link on this page to view WebCT's current support for learning objects. What is needed, of course, is a means to tie this system into a learning object repository (I guess plans are in the works). More...
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