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Tag Archives: Stephen-Downes
Blackboard CEO Responds on the Patent Issue
The gents at EdTechTalk ran a terrific Skypecast discussion last night (archived here) on the Blackboard patent and DOPA. I’ll leave it to others to comment on the discussion itself. What I find interesting is the letter that Blackboard CEO … Continue reading
In Defense of Walled Gardens
I’ve been seeing the phrase “walled garden” a lot in the edublogosphere, and always with a negative connotation. It is a term that seems to carry over from more general usage referring to either media content or wiki pages that … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Pattern Languages, LMOS, Notable Posts, Openness, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!)
Tagged David-Wiley, Stephen-Downes, walled-gardens
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When Worldviews Collide
About a year and a half ago, I made a plea for people with two very different worldviews–one from an enterprise perspective and the other from an internet perspective–to start talking to each other regarding application design goals. I’m delighted … Continue reading
Stephen Downes Missed the Point
OK, so Stephen Downes doesn’t like the LMOS: I have been sort of sympathetic to the concept of the learningmanagement operating system (LMOS) because, after all, the concept includes things that I favour: distributed resources, user access to the underlying … Continue reading
Posted in LMOS, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!)
Tagged Bernie-Durfee, eLearning-Framework, JISC, Stephen-Downes, SUNY
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The Intractable Problem of Informational Cascades
Stephen Downes’ new column on e-Learn does a great job of showing that solving the informational cascade problem is more challenging than I had presented it to be in my own article on the topic. In fact, his own analysis … Continue reading
