By Stephen Downes
June 3, 2005
E-Learning 2.0
Slides from my
online presentation today for the Canadian Institute for
Distance Education Research (CIDER). I argue that
e-learning is evolving into a distributed and learner
centered mode. You'll notice that they look a lot like the
last three sections from the presentation I gave a couple
of days ago (except these have been optimised for easy
download). The recording from the session, which was held
using Elluminate, should be available on the CIDER
website soon. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June 3,
2005
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North Bay
Photos from North Bay,
taken from the wilderness north and west of the city. The
river pictured is Duchesnay Creek and thge lake is, of
course, Lake Nipissing. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web,
June 3, 2005
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2 Steves And a Blog
Two
well-known and recognized Steves - Gilbert and Ehrmann -
have teamed up to offer this new blog. There's some pretty
good content here, including yesterday's post on the
relation between virtual
learning and alumni donations. Write to them and urge
them to post more frequently; this sort of contribution is
invaluable. By Steve Gilbert and Steve Ehrmann, June, 2005
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Online Forum on Intellectual Property in the
Information Society
In preparation for the
upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
conference, the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) is hosting discussions during the first half of June
intended to inform its submission. The discussions are
primed with ten themes addressing aspects of intellectual
property and social development, and while the authors have
tried to be fair in their treatment of the issue
(scrupulously fair, and they should be commended) I
nonetheless chafe at the assumptions underlying much of the
debate: that IP laws are necessary for creativity, that IP
fosters economic development. Even if these are true, they
are not exclusively true. Moreover, the discussion takes
the approach of how social development can be accomplished
within a framework of IP protection, without
seriously raising (in my mind) the role IP has and
continues to play in retarding social development.
By Various Authors, World Intellectual Property
Organization, June 1, 2005
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The Living Arts
Brad Carson has
very kindly sent along a 1 megabyte version of this
PowerPoint presentation - the talk I gave in Guelph - to
replace the 7 megabyte version I posted last week. He also
tells me how I could have done it in a few seconds myself:
"1. Double-click an image in the presentation; 2. Click the
'Compress' button; 3. Select 'All Pictures in document' and
'Web/Screen resolution'; 4. Click OK; 5. Save (with a
different filename if you want to be safe), compare and
marvel." By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June 3, 2005
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LAMS and Moodle Integration
Big
news here as the creators of LAMS and Moodle - both open
source e-learning applications - announce plans for
integration. The New Zealand Ministry of Education is
sponsoring the integration. "The Moodle/LAMS integration
will achieve 'Single-Sign-On' between the systems, meaning
only one
name and password is needed for each user across the two
systems. Teachers will also benefit from easy ways to add
LAMS activity sequences to Moodle course pages. In
addition, a new “course format” will be developed for
Moodle centred on LAMS activities." By Press Release, LAMS,
May 31, 2005
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Re: Why Did e-Learning Go Bust in the
USA?
A spirited debate has eruped following
the publication of Thwarted
Innovation: What Happened to e-Learning and Why by
Robert Zemsky and William F. Massy. Probably the best
response comes from Carol A. Twigg and is reporduced here
in this DEOS post from Catherine Chambers. Twigg writes
(accurately), "Most of the 'study' is based on their views
of what 'happened to
e-learning' rather than on their research." Al Powell
offers another
nice commentary, arguing that "Maybe the dot-commers in
E-learning have decided that it's a bust, but
public institutions haven't." And Kevin Lydon asks,
"Why does
e-learning have to replace traditional education before it
is considered a positive innovation?" By Catherine
Chambers, DEOS-L, June 1, 2005
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