Blog "HEDway" d'Olivier Rollot. Les médias s’intéressent spontanément à des interventions originales et fortes et non à l’eau tiède. Bien sûr, les directeurs se doivent de clairement distinguer l’expression de leur propre opinion (en tant que citoyen ou auteur) de celle de leur établissement qui se doit de rester neutre. Plus...
Timeline of the Free Online Scholarship Movement
Timeline of the Free Online Scholarship Movement
First draft, with links, of major events in the recent history of the freedom of online scholarship movement. More...
Patent Changes the Score for Net Music
Patent Changes the Score for Net Music
It's hard to believe, but a U.S. court has recognized a claim by SightSound Technologies, a digital media company, to the effect that it owns the patent on downloading video and sound over the internet. Yep, that's right, SightSound "invented" the concept. More...
The Crime of Sharing
The Crime of Sharing
I think John Perry barlow sums up my feelings on a lot of what is happening with copyright quite nicely: "And just as sharing makes us civilized, it's sharing that makes civilization. It lets us build a great collective work from the exchange of stories, myths, songs, poems, facts, jokes, beliefs, scientific discoveries, elegant engineering hacks, and all of the other products of human thought and discourse. More...
Splash
Splash
The Portals for Online Objects in Learning (POOL) project announced today the availability of a beta version of its 'Splash' module for public download. The purpose of Splash is to allow educators and content developers to create desktop peer-to-peer based learning object repositories. More...
The Next Web
The Next Web
It's good to be reminded from time to time about where the web is really headed. This article focuses on Tim Berners-Lee as the architect of the (proposed) semantic web. The project is nothing nearly like the one-man show depicted in the article, but it's nonetheless clear that Berners-Lee has a vision and is working toward it. More...
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Canadian National E-Learning
Canadian National E-Learning Workshop
Today's edition of OLDaily comes to you live from the CANARIE E-Learning Workshop in Montreal, Quebec. Topics covered have included learning objects, learning object repositories and related issues. More...
Comment conjuguer recherche et création d’entreprise: l’exemple de Pulsalys Lyon
Blog "Il y a une vie après le bac" d'Olivier Rollot. Créées en 2010 les sociétés d’accélération du transfert de technologies (SATT) ont pour but de faciliter la valorisation des connaissances en permettant le dépôt de brevets ou même la création d’entreprises. Sur tout le territoire les 14 SATT Les SATT ont vocation à regrouper l’ensemble des équipes de valorisation des sites universitaires. A Lyon la SATT Pulsalys est, avec celle de Montpellier, l’une des deux SATT à cumuler transfert de compétences et incubation d’entreprises. Plus...
Soft skills : la « nouvelle frontière » de l’enseignement supérieur
Blog "Il y a une vie après le bac" d'Olivier Rollot. A l’heure de la montée en puissance de l’intelligence artificielle (IA), alors que les entreprises veulent recruter des jeunes prêts à s’investir immédiatement dans des projets, que doit-on leur enseigner. Plus...