Category Archives: Emergence

David Carter-Tod on “Learning Objects in Motion (RLO and RSS)”

…it’s not often that a) I post items from home and b) rush downstairs to post about things I’ve read in a paper-based magazine, but this Syllabus article merits it I think.  I don’t recall seeing this elsewhere yet anyway … Continue reading

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David Wiley, “Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities”

David Wiley posts his take on the current state of the LO universe, “Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities.” A nice summary of where things are at right now, and be sure to check out what he says on page 7 … Continue reading

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David Wiley, “Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities”

David Wiley posts his take on the current state of the LO universe, “Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities.” A nice summary of where things are at right now, and be sure to check out what he says on page 7 … Continue reading

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David Wiley, “Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities”

David Wiley posts his take on the current state of the LO universe, “Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities.” A nice summary of where things are at right now, and be sure to check out what he says on page 7 … Continue reading

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Knowledge Management and Trojan Mice

Stephen Downes addresses a question I keep asking myself: So What is Knowledge Management Anyway? Regular readers of Downes won’t find too many surprises here, but the piece serves up a concise, non-technical and pointed overview. A number of his … Continue reading

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Open source models and manifestos

I neglected to link to George Siemens’ proposal for Developing Open Source Content that came out a couple of weeks ago. DOSC has four primary purposes: 1. Forum for collaborative creation of open source content. Academic fields are not isolated. … Continue reading

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A learning objects presentation, or a cry for help?

Last week I gave a presentation on reusable media for a group of educators at UBC’s Faculty of Science. I did my best to give a talk that used as little learning object lingo as possible, and left aside any … Continue reading

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The karass, the granfalloon, and emergent technology…

Steven Johnson’s recent column gets off to a great start, citing Vonnegut’s classic novel Cat’s Cradle, in which the author… … explains how the world is divided into two types of social organizations: the karass and the granfalloon. A karass … Continue reading

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Towards Structured Blogging

Another novel idea from S

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Searching the BlogSphere

A quote from the article by Micah Alpern: Until the semantic web arrives the best method we have to understand a users point of view is to examine the RSS feeds they subscribe to. I currently read RSS feeds from … Continue reading

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