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Miles Berry - Learning Platform Functional Requirements - Miles Berry : Weblog
Commentary and link to BECTA's newly released learning platform functional requirements. Although sounding criticial at first ("I think we'd have seen a very different document if Becta had worked from the ground up, asking pupils, teachers and schools what sort of functionality they'd like to see in learning platforms, rather than the top down") the author notes the BECTA appears to have listened to Moodle and open source advocates "about giving at least some place to the social dimension of learning, as well as some aspects of Web 2.0." [
OLDaily on May 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Brady Forrest - Controversy About Our Web 2.0 Service Mark - O'Reilly Radar
O'Reilly has long been heralded as a leading advocate of the open source ethos. But that reputation is under seige today. In a story that began
here and spead into Tim O'Reilly's blog
here (where you can find my own response) it was revealed that O'Reilly is trying to enforce ownership of 'Web 2.0' as a service mark (at least for conferences). While I held out hope that i From
OLDaily on May 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Unattributed - Podcast Lectures for Uni Students - BBC News
As the story explains, "A lecturer at a West Yorkshire university has abolished traditional lectures in favour of podcasts." The professor argues that "the move would better suit the needs of distance learners, part-time students and those balancing studies with family and work." and that "Some lecture classes have 250 students, so I question the effectiveness of a didactic lecture for an hour." Typically a porfessor would offer a podcast in addition to a lecture, but we have to ask, if we could offer only one of a traditional lecture or a podcast, which makes more sense? Via
OLDaily on May 26, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Kill the orphans
In the early days of the web, construction signs littered the landscape. Some people put them on every page! In time people realized that web pages weren't meant to be static, like books. You didn't need to excuse unfinished work. because everything is a work in progress. Nothing is ever finished! The web is fluid. Putting [...] From
Internet Time Blog on May 26, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..