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6 mars 2018

Oprah, Bill Gates and the Future of Books

Oprah, Bill Gates and the Future of Books
Nifty article with a good insight into why e-books are not taking off on the net. If you think about it, when we buy music, we also buy a separate player - a Sony Walkman, for example, or a stereo syste, "But when a publisher sells us a novel," writes the author, "they?re also including the 'player'?the display mechanism traditionally called a 'book.'" We have no history of buying text players, and so have no inclination to buy them for electronic content. More...

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6 mars 2018

Conductors Pose First Challenge to Copyright Law

Conductors Pose First Challenge to Copyright Law
I ask you: is this the sort of future you want to live in? "The URAA pushed the costs for sheet music for works by such composers as Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev from less than $100 to at least $1,000 -- and this only to rent the music. More...

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6 mars 2018

An Education In Cynicism

An Education In Cynicism
It just strikes me as silly in this day and age that there should be anything like a shortage of spaces in college and university classes. But there is, and it isn't helped by people trying to be admitted into the 'right' institutions and the institutions' admissions practices. "What we have, for the moment, is the spectacle of some of America's most prestigious educational institutions engaged in behavior that can only be described as antisocial. They have subordinated students' interests to their own. This is hypocritical and indifferent to any larger social good." More...

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6 mars 2018

Distributed Computing Case Ends With Probation

Distributed Computing Case Ends With Probation
You may have read in OLDaily a few weeks ago about the case where a computer administrator faces heavy fines and long jail terms for installing a distributed processing system on school computers. Well, the case is over, he was - astonishingly - found guilty and given a year of probation and a $2,100 fine. More...

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6 mars 2018

The Erosion of Democracy: From Critique to Possibilities

The Erosion of Democracy: From Critique to Possibilities
I have long felt that there is a connection between education and democracy and it may be because I am the product of an educational system that viewed the process of democratic involvement as one of its central objects. Now there is a book by a group of Canadian authors who argue that the connection between education and democracy is under threat from reforms in advanced learning. More...

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6 mars 2018

Designer of Free Course-Management Software Asks, What Makes a Good Web Site?

Designer of Free Course-Management Software Asks, What Makes a Good Web Site?
I don't want to be such a critic, but really - if MIT and Stanford are supposed to be so leading edge, shouldn't they be further ahead than this? "Step 1 is to have a basic system that covers things like posting documents, making announcements, giving quizzes, having a home page. That's a star we can almost reach. We're getting close." Sheesh, guys, take an afternoon, download some simple tools, buy a copy of Hot Potatos. More...

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6 mars 2018

Ask a Philosopher

Ask a Philosopher
I don't know - reading through the wonderful and varied questions (this month's first question: "Is there a philosophical justification for nudism?") just seems more civilized than sitting in rows and learning "European Philosophy from Descartes to Kant." Anyhow, this site makes my list of cool sites. More...

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6 mars 2018

Synchronous Learning On the Web

Synchronous Learning On the Web
Audio and video conferences have never seemed to me to be a very efficient means of providing online learning. But synchronous conferencing has its place in education, albeit not the place where we see it most often. By Stephen Downes. More...

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6 mars 2018

Field Studies Done Right: Fast and Observational

Field Studies Done Right: Fast and Observational
Jakob Nielsen could have made the same point without insulting anthropologists but his message is sound: if you design something - a course, say - then you should watch people use it to see what they do. More...

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6 mars 2018

Modeling Units of Study From a Pedagogical Perspective: The Pedagogical meta-Model Behind EML

Modeling Units of Study From a Pedagogical Perspective: The Pedagogical meta-Model Behind EML
EML stands for Educational Modeling Language and it is a DTD-based learning object metadata framework based in the Netherlands. EML is designed to answer, in part, the question, "Where is the learning in e-learning?" Their answer is simple to state, but entails a significant development program. More...

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