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People as a Source of Breakthrough Innovation
Stefano Marzano, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Creative Director, Philips Design writes about how Philips goes about looking for design opportunities. At Philips,we apply this approach to three things: our market,ourselves, and our interactions with our consumers...By combining all the insights we gain from looking at our market, ourselves, and the consumer interface, we can arrive at a general vision ofthe future. On that basis,we can then work out, for the next few years, what new ty From elearningpost on January 9, 2006 at 9:46 p.m..

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Rob Reynolds - Parables on Learning -- The Basic Principles - XplanaZine
Well I think it's a bit sappy but I think people will like it (I've been wrong - and sappy - before). "These ten basic Principles of Learning are really a series of actions that successful people people can take in their daily lives. In fact, since learning is such an integral part of living, these rules might more appropriately be called the basic principles of a good life." Maybe I ought to take pen in hand to write about what I think the good life is - maybe that would help me figure it out. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Vincent Tinto - Learning Communities: Building Gateways to Student Success - National Teaching and Learning Forum
Mentioned in passing by Alan Levine, Vincent Tinto is a good source for information on learning communities in traditional settings. In this article, from 1998, he identifies several types of learning communities and observes, "The responsibilities and roles of the faculty and students, and of student affairs professionals, become less distinct, more blurred as each attempts to negotiate meaning with the other." He hits the mark elsewhere as well, discussing the importance of OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Tom Hoffman - My Blogging Resolution for 2006 - ESchool News
Tom Hoffman pledges to be honest about his biases in 2006, a good thing, and while pointing to the mostly worthwhile philosophies of the Coalition of Essential Schools he makes most clear, I think, his disdain for some more recent (or as he says, "ersatz") theories of learning. He writes, "Nothing, not a single damn thing I've learned about technology has changed what I've always believed about teaching and learning by humans." I wish I knew so much that I could be so certain about my fundamental principles and beliefs. Via OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Sohini Bagchi - The E-learning Boom Is Here! - CXOtoday
Cheerleading article, useful because it points to market leaders (Wipro, Satyam, Accenture, Convergys, ING Vysya Bank) and points to some weaknesses ("the biggest growth and adaptation inhibitor is not lack of solutions or their quality, but the need for an internal change management. At the same time its penetration has not been phenomenal in all sectors in the country, cautioned Joseph. This is especially true for the government sector..."). Via The Learned Man. [OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Shashwat Chaturvedi - India: E-learning's Knight in Shining Armour - CIOL
This might surprise some readers: "India has a near monopoly in the e-learning services domain." According to the article, "if you are a writer, a software professional, a graphic artist or a management professional, living in one of the metros [in India] chances are you must have received an email or a call from the headhunters offering a job at one of e-learning companies." [Link] [Tags: Online Learning] [Com From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Christopher D. Sessums - The Beginnings of a Manifesto for Reforming Education in the U.S.
I don't see why the author would limit his attention to the U.S., but this short article starts off on the right track, I think. Sort of. This bit is good: "This political movement requires xoeemergence,xx where change is initiated from below, not handed down from above." But this isn't: "For the act of teaching and learning to change at both an institutional level and an active, social level, teachers need to join together and form a unified vision of working conditions and compensation." No. The whole concept of emergence requires that invividuals form autonomous visions and From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Matt Pasiewicz - Open Educational Resources at the Internet Archive - Educause
Interesting. From Internet Archive: "The Open Educational Resources Archive is a collection of educational content including coursework, study guides, exercises, and recorded lectures. It is meant for students, teachers, and self-learners at all levels." [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

David Wiley - RIP-ping on Learning Objects - Iterating Toward Openness
David Wiley writes, "I don't think I care if learning objects are dead or not." Now if that doesn't get you to click on the link I don't know what will. Wiley recounts the reusability paradox he outlined a few years ago, and yet underlines the value learning objects were supposed to bring. He writes, "As I've thought about that need, I think it is best expressed as easily localizable resources." So where was the problem? "In retrospect, the primary weakness of this definition was supposed to be the keyword it all hinged upon: 'reuse.' [which was] almost unanimousl From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Rob Wall - EdTech Posse Podcast #012 - The Last Remains of Our Breakfast Chat at SACE - The EdTech Posse
The world's longest breakfast wraps up with the fourth and final podcast of my breakfast conversation with the Ed Tech Posse in Regina. Listen and enjoy. [Link] [Tags: Podcasting] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Terry Anderson - PLEx
Terry Anderson cautions, "Although there is something quite compelling about the vision of a lifelong learning environment that is centered upon and perpetually belongs to the learner, I think we are some distance from being able to operationalize that vision." Still, "the PLE future seems to be more secure than that of any monolithic LMS." [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - MyGlu - Stephen's Web
Sites like SuprGlu portend the expressive power inherent in RSS and Web 2.0 but it - and other sites like it - frustrate me because they tie the user to their website, their service (and their business model, their advertising, and ultimately, Yahoo!). They seem to work like magic, but what they are doing is not magic - unless, perhaps, it's a magic of PR. This link is to a script I wrote today (yes, it represents exactly one day's work, though I'll clean it up and add to it over the next week or so) which performs the functionality of SuprGl From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Blogalito
Planned Parenthood is blogging the Alito hearings, although it's almost 3 pm, the hearings started at noon, and so far they haven't posted anything. I want my instant blogratification! Plus they're moderating comments. Loosen up Planned Parenthood! [Tags: alito blogs plannedParenthood]... From Joho the Blog on January 9, 2006 at 4:49 p.m..

Domainpulse appearance
I'm an invited speaker at Domainpulse, a conference organized by the 3 German domain registrars. A quite intersting program that scope reaches from questions and experiences with domains in Iran to political questions about Internet governance to Social So From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 9, 2006 at 4:47 p.m..

Losing subscribers
I've always wondered how many RSS subscribers take the time to switch addresses when a good blogger changes to a new URL. I see that one really strong blogger, Ed Cone, has just about nine times more Bloglines subscribers at his now defunct site than at his new site. He made the switch two months ago, on November 5th. From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 9, 2006 at 2:53 p.m..

Spoke too soon
Yesterday I mentioned that the blogging students hadn't been posting since the semester ended, but this morning one of them showed up in the aggregator after all. Some things just take time... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 9, 2006 at 2:53 p.m..

Salón del automóvil de Detroit
Buen seguimiento en Motorpasión (sección Salones del Automóvil, con fuente RSS) del 2006 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) de Detroit From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 9, 2006 at 2:52 p.m..

Los mejores weblogs literarios de 2005
Blogeratura es una comunidad de weblogs literarios de habla hispana que cuenta con más de 700 miembros. Ahora acaban de organizar Los mejores blogs literarios del 2005, certamen en el que ha resultado ganador El ánima dispersa de Alberto Chimal, blogger de México que abandonó su bitácora a mediados de ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 9, 2006 at 2:52 p.m..

An American
The Boston Globe obituary of Stanely Tupper of Maine recounts his years in Congress as one of the most principled of liberal Republicans, his vote for the Voting Rghts Act and the Medicare Act, his refusal to support Barry Goldwater or the first Bush president, his law practice, his co-authorship of a book on US-Canada relations, his years as a lawyer and his continued involvement in politics. I hadn't known of him before reading the obituary, but I came away impressed. But what struck me most is this quote from his wife towards the end of the article: But the... From Joho the Blog on January 9, 2006 at 2:49 p.m..

Innovations in the Reuse of Electronic Learning Materials: Drivers and Challenges
This keynote talk by Derek Morrison (Auricle) at the Cambridge-MIT Conference about electronic learning materials covers a number of interesting points. "My Challenges ... considered the following: Technology can easily become an innovative way of not changing. Reusable learning materials do not by themselves make for deep learning. Technologies increasingly tend to determine pra From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on January 9, 2006 at 2:47 p.m..

Learning 2.0
Web 2.0 will be a major theme this year. The read/write web (at last) and the web as platform. Mash-ups and DIY (do-it-yourself). Folksonomies. Whatever you feel like throwing into the pot. There's no authoritative definition of Web 2.0. You know it when you see it. It's Flickr, Del.icio.us, JotSpot, Writely, Digg, GoogleMaps, and Feedburner. [...] From Internet Time Blog on January 9, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Medidas para garantizar la libertad de expresión en Internet
A raíz del reciente caso de censura sufrido por el bloguer y periodista chino Michael Anti, la organización Reporteros Sin Fronteras ha propuesto una serie de medidas para obligar a las empresas estadounidenses a respetar la libertad de expresión, también cuando operan fuera de los Estados Unidos: Do Internet companies ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 9, 2006 at 5:52 a.m..

The plot thickens with a thin eBooks device - Mike Snider, USA TODAY
Sony opens a new chapter in the electronic-book saga by unveiling its handheld Reader Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show. The tale has been a ho-hum one so far; eBooks account for only about $10 million of the $24 billion publishing industry. But From Techno-News Blog on January 9, 2006 at 3:49 a.m..

Apple may be readying iLife update - Ina Fried, CNET News
Information that was apparently posted to Apple Computer's Web site suggests the company is planning an update to its iLife suite of consumer software and is also planning a product called iWeb. A support page for Apple's Garageband music program made re From Techno-News Blog on January 9, 2006 at 3:49 a.m..

Campus Innovation - Impulse für die Hochschule von morgen
Diese Broschüre (online zum Download!) fasst in einer Reihe von Beiträgen, Statements und Interviews die Highlights der Campus Innovation 2005 zusammen. Ganz zentral: die Rolle der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien im Prozess der Umstrukturierung (Bologna, E-Campus) und Neupositionierung (Bildungsmarkt, Studiengebühren),... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 9, 2006 at 2:51 a.m..

Tech Analysts Debate: Will Microsoft Buy Yahoo? - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, eWeek
Was $80 billion too little for Yahoo? If you believe a recent story in the Los Angeles Times, as many stock buyers appeared to have, that was indeed the case. Dan Kusnetzky, IDC vice president for system software research, can't see it. "Since Microsoft From Techno-News Blog on January 9, 2006 at 2:49 a.m..

Lines Are Drawn in Fight to Add Charter Schools
A battle over expanding the number of charter schools allowed in New York State will enter a decisive stage this week. From New York Times: Education on January 9, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

The blogs cease
Many people have noted the same thing -- most students stop blogging at the end of a blog-based course. I checked about a dozen sites today, and even the ones that were already well-adapted to serving a wider audience have had no new posts since the semester ended. (Neither has this blog, by the way.) People are tired, perhaps, and they've been motivated by forces outside themselves part of the time, and so they stop. I'm not sure I'm upset by this. In the final weeks of the semester... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 9, 2006 at 12:52 a.m..

Design blogs
Carol Ryder writes asking if anyone knows about blogs or wikis being used in teaching art and design. She says: I am a lecturer in fashion and textile design at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and am currently engaged in researching the use of technology in teaching art and design subjects in HE. I wonder, can you point me in the direction of any examples or case-histories in the use of weblogs or wikis in the teaching and learning of art and design subjects? I... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 9, 2006 at 12:52 a.m..