By Stephen Downes
July 19, 2004
Napster Expands University Program with the
Addition of Six Schools
One wonders exactly what
sort of deal was reached. "In establishing these
agreements, the schools have been working closely with the
Campus Action Network (CAN), an initiative dedicated to
facilitating the introduction of safe, legitimate digital
music services to the campus environment.... In partnering
with Napster, Cornell, GW, Middlebury, Miami, USC and
Wright State hope to give students a simple and fun way to
obtain and listen to music in compliance with copyright
laws and to promote respect for intellectual property." Via
University Business. By PRNewswire-FirstCall, Yahoo News,
July 19, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Welcome to the Rubric Machine
This
site was mentioned in one of the discussion lists over the
weekend, ITForum, I think, part of the discussion recently
surrounding assessment in general. What this site provides
is a step by step series of forms helping you build an
assessment rubric. Nice elegant design and I like the help
links at each step. By Various Authors, Inter-Action
Design, July, 2004
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PHP in
Contrast to Perl
Continuing the mini-theme of
comparing computer languages started last week, this look
at PHP and Perl is an eye opener. In two sentences: "Number
of PHP core functions: 3079.
Number of Perl core functions: 206." The author also looks
at inconsistent function naming in PHP. An advantage PHP
derives from this, it seems to me, is speed. The last line
of the article, though, is the best: "Comparing PHP to Perl
is like comparing pears to newspapers." By Unknown, Undated
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
On-line MBA Course Goes
Live
Universitas 21 hasn't gone away. According
to this item it is still plugging its flagship MBA program.
Note the marketing pitch: "Those behind the course are
hoping that flexibility and its low cost of EUR14,900 --
which includes all required texts -- should attract a
number of potential students to 340 students already
enrolled worldwide." Not exactly the spin we would have
expected from the big name universities (who are not even
mentioned in this article) that helped launch the
initiative and were supposed to give it strong branding.
Via Online Learning Update. By Deirdre McArdle, ENN, July
16, 2004
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