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Diversity University started out as an educational MUD; Walden University was also an early adopter, and a whole bunch more. I also needed to prove that the web could be used for online learning, so I took a guide I had created for my Grande Prairie students, Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies , and published it on my website, openly licensed, free for all to use (the license was based on similar open licensing I had seen in the MUD community). MORE
It begins, Want to address ongoing concerns about the buying, selling and consolidation of people’s personal information without their knowledge or consent? In response, the Obama administration in February proposed a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights , which it’s pressing Congress to adopt. ” Notably, consumers might be shocked at how little their data buys them, while continuing to distrust what advertisers are doing with their data. MORE
Probably the most notable of the specialized computers, the iPod, has become one of the most popular consumer products of all time. Digital cameras have essentially replaced traditional cameras; Polaroid is ceasing production of instant film in 2009. Dignan, 2008) Microsoft needs to virtualize Windows, to create versions tailored to different devices, simplifying the operating system providing a similar user experience across a wide range of products. MORE
The CRMs that I’ve looked at thus far are: Netsuite , Sage , GoldMine , Sugar , and Open Object. For example, Sugar and Open Object are open source options that have development communities adding features and functionality. With Sage and GoldMine you’re essentially buying a turnkey system (GoldMine is not hosted and runs on windows, Sage can be hosted online or on your own server). What advice do you have some firms that are just adopting a CRM? MORE
That would be prettyintense if Apple limited a crucial feature exclusively to users of aMicrosoft product. Apple should buy out BusyMac to enable over-the-air iPhone syncing. Posted by: MK | March 10, 2008 at 02:42 PM It seems that Microsoft Exchange is not the only implementation of Exchange ActiveSync on the server side: It's supported by both Scalix and Zimbra (I don't know to what extent though), and there's an open source implementation called Z-Push. MORE
Day One Debate introduction Moderator Wayne Mackintosh The concept of Open Education Resources (OER) is firmly based on the educational value of sharing knowledge. A key issue in the open education arena is whether OER should favour commercial use. DayTwo Pro Opening statement David Wiley The question of this debate, “Should OER favour commercial use?”, After a few months, however, I became concerned because adoption of the license wasn’t great. MORE
I want to talk to you about the concept of free, the concept of open learning, the concept of networked learning in a networked world and the concept of the institution. You may in certain sense think of this talk, together with the other talks, as a rebuttal to the way institutions are approaching Massive Open Online Courses and open learning generally today. Even the defenders of open content say, "Oh, you''re way over. or you can buy the season for $29.99 MORE
New technology-based capabilities often go from relative obscurity to market acceptance in one short year, - from being used primarily by leading edge adopters in research labs and universities, to being embraced by a wider marketplace. Buy and sell; bank; follow legislation; work together; access entertainment, earn a college degree, renew a drivers license. The rich media theory says we should be more productive with rich communications such as avatars, more personalization etc. MORE
To become a nurse is, for example, to adopt as a personal code the ethical norms and values that define that particular profession. And, as he notes, ““There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use it[s]resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition.” Another source of error is misinterpretation. MORE
ID³ , - the Institute for Institutional Innovation by Data Driven Design, - is a new multidisciplinary non-profit institution formed to develop architectural frameworks, open source software and educational content for the protection, sharing and monetization of sensitive data. Open, collaborative approaches have been successfully applied to the development of some of the most consequential, disruptive initiatives of the past few decades, like the World Wide Web and Linux. MORE
It’s logical and natural to think that all the good new product ideas come out of the design department and R&D labs, that the folk in the IT department are the best ones to help you with your computer problem, and that the engineers are the only ones who can figure out why the doors start rattling after 5,000 miles on the road. I’d probably allow only group collaborative document production tools to have limited membership. (#3) MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. James Adams: Good Products, Bad Products: Essential Elements to Achieving Superior Quality. We're documenting Mozilla's methods for spreading Firefox (its open-source web browser); the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's "100,000 Lives" campaign (an apparently successful effort to eliminate 100,000 preventable deaths in U.S. Bob Sutton. MORE
Hence value functions (utility, production etc) and fitness functions (and thus fixed fitness landscapes ) are incorrect representations. Key dates: 1966 first experiments, 1970 patents granted 1982 MCI adopt, but AT&T breakup in 1984 allows emergence as they hold back development. ABB wanted to open it up in a profitable way. Interesting list of 30 types of information shared in product development (not time to type it but shows variety). MORE
The opening session is on business models for supporting the webification of the educational system. While there are many wonderful things about crowd-sourcing, he says, “I’m in favor of expertise. E.g., that humans are responsible for climate change is not in doubt, should not be presented as if it were in doubt, and should not be crowd-sourced, he says. buy anything. They will continue selling products. MORE
Q: Do people have a reason to buy legal works for anything except fear of enforcement? People buy legal works only for other reasons. E.g., the biz sw strategy is to allow rampant priacy to ensure universal adoption, and then they begin to enforce against the most vulnerable institutions: municipal gov’ts, etc. What’s the source of open source platforms here? Most govts have no demonstrated any consistent open source adoption strategy. MORE
Open Educational Resources Matures 4. open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people. MORE
high cost; or campus access in central lab - open couyrses, MOOCs, highly distributed hardware - LabVIEW crosses these two envirnments Centralized lab: eg., matterhorn open source lecture capture - object information is lost Object-based - object remains intact, can be searched, etc - but you need dedicated recording and replay software - eg. MORE
The last group I want to mention consists of all the people and companies selling ad-on products and services on top of the basic computer systems, such as application developers. Over time, the IBM S/360 family , announced in 1964, emerged as the leading products of the central computing model. A fairly large ecosystem developed around S/360 of companies providing a large variety of hardware and software add-on products, applications and services. MORE
As Peter said this is part 2 of a trilogy of talks, I gave the first one yesterday at University of Greenwich on the topic of "Open learning and open educational resources". What they are talking about these days is the destruction of the university at the hands of the massive open online course. As one of the people who invented the massive open online course, I feel a little personally involved here. They''re all sources of learning. MORE
Tanya Roussy says we should stop trying to buy talent and instead try to develop it. " An innovative private sector is critical to translate Canada’s high-quality knowledge production into marketable products that bring productivity gains and deliver commercial solutions to various industries." And without this investment, no amount of government intervention can buy an innovation society. Sean Elliott calls on science to buy locally. "If MORE
The challenge for organizations is to use smart delivery, to replace classes with technology, to embrace open source, and perhaps to adopt a software-as-a-service model. People have become the primary means of production; it’s time to give the people functions in organizations equal standing with finance, sales, and production. In many cases we now buy a complete package from which we only use a small percentage, because only this content is of interest to us. MORE
Whether we look at the resurgence of crafts and hot rod cars, the rise of the “maker” movement, body hacking, social media or open source software, we find people who are investing more and more time and energy in the creation of things they are passionate about. Many of us felt a deep seated need to achieve our potential, not by buying even more, but by discovering and developing our unique talents. Who are you? MORE
We rely on colleagues and social networks to separate the signal from the noise; their advice makes our experiential learning productive. McKinsey & Company reports that implementing social business creates: Improved business performance (profit, productivity, margins, etc). Some schools are comfortable encouraging students, faculty, and adminstratoin to use consumer apps on the open web. A handful of universities have adopted some aspects of web 2.0 MORE
In each case there have been the following factors where the organization: was a beneficiary of free or low cost SharePoint software did little to no assessment of their own needs and contexts had (are) used shared folders in the past as their main “collaboration&# approach identified “collaboration&# as a reason for implementing SharePoint did not have sufficient culture/leadership/process elements in place for the adoption. There has to be a more productive path. MORE
In this presentation Stephen Downes addresses the question of how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact the future of distance education. slide 1 – MOOC Wordle] My objective in this talk is to address how the massive open online course (MOOC) will impact the future of distance education, and in particular, strategies and examples of the use of MOOCs to promote cultural and linguistic diversity. That gives us four terms: ‘massive’, ‘open’, ‘online’, and ‘course’. MORE
For the last 150 years, the work of large organizations has been about mass production and making centralization effective. When leaders are bosses, organizations naturally adopt the disciplines of top-down hierarchies to assure that the individual intelligence of the leaders is properly leveraged across the work of large numbers of people. This is the remarkable power behind open source platforms. MORE
A whole suite of products beyond the textbook. Lisa Petrides - IKSME Our mission is about maximizing all of these open access tools that enable breakthroughs in teaching and learning. The business model is based on helping faculty make the transition from commercial to open textbooks. All the content is CC-licensed content, and the platform is open source as well. It''s very much of a Linux model - the content itself should forever be free and open. MORE
which even amnesiacs can remember games.students get connected and wikis get adopted. » March 05, 2008 Big Basket of Stuff #1: Wikis, IMs, and 3D Pardon this hodge podge but I have waaayyy too many items to get through them individually and quite frankly the number of tabs I have open is getting a little scary. " Meebo announces new features and partners : "First off, they have introduced a developer API for their Meebo Rooms product. MORE
Adoption Buy Open Source Productivity David Weinberger
MARCH 28, 2011
The opening session is on business models for supporting the webification of the educational system. While there are many wonderful things about crowd-sourcing, he says, “I’m in favor of expertise. E.g., that humans are responsible for climate change is not in doubt, should not be presented as if it were in doubt, and should not be crowd-sourced, he says. buy anything. They will continue selling products.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
DECEMBER 15, 2011
ID³ , - the Institute for Institutional Innovation by Data Driven Design, - is a new multidisciplinary non-profit institution formed to develop architectural frameworks, open source software and educational content for the protection, sharing and monetization of sensitive data. Open, collaborative approaches have been successfully applied to the development of some of the most consequential, disruptive initiatives of the past few decades, like the World Wide Web and Linux.
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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MARCH 1, 2020
Diversity University started out as an educational MUD; Walden University was also an early adopter, and a whole bunch more. I also needed to prove that the web could be used for online learning, so I took a guide I had created for my Grande Prairie students, Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies , and published it on my website, openly licensed, free for all to use (the license was based on similar open licensing I had seen in the MUD community).
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JANUARY 11, 2009
The challenge for organizations is to use smart delivery, to replace classes with technology, to embrace open source, and perhaps to adopt a software-as-a-service model. People have become the primary means of production; it’s time to give the people functions in organizations equal standing with finance, sales, and production. In many cases we now buy a complete package from which we only use a small percentage, because only this content is of interest to us.
John Hagel
FEBRUARY 12, 2010
Whether we look at the resurgence of crafts and hot rod cars, the rise of the “maker” movement, body hacking, social media or open source software, we find people who are investing more and more time and energy in the creation of things they are passionate about. Many of us felt a deep seated need to achieve our potential, not by buying even more, but by discovering and developing our unique talents. Who are you?
David Weinberger
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Q: Do people have a reason to buy legal works for anything except fear of enforcement? People buy legal works only for other reasons. E.g., the biz sw strategy is to allow rampant priacy to ensure universal adoption, and then they begin to enforce against the most vulnerable institutions: municipal gov’ts, etc. What’s the source of open source platforms here? Most govts have no demonstrated any consistent open source adoption strategy.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MARCH 25, 2015
A whole suite of products beyond the textbook. Lisa Petrides - IKSME Our mission is about maximizing all of these open access tools that enable breakthroughs in teaching and learning. The business model is based on helping faculty make the transition from commercial to open textbooks. All the content is CC-licensed content, and the platform is open source as well. It''s very much of a Linux model - the content itself should forever be free and open.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
Open Educational Resources Matures 4. open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Tanya Roussy says we should stop trying to buy talent and instead try to develop it. " An innovative private sector is critical to translate Canada’s high-quality knowledge production into marketable products that bring productivity gains and deliver commercial solutions to various industries." And without this investment, no amount of government intervention can buy an innovation society. Sean Elliott calls on science to buy locally. "If
Adaptive Path
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
The CRMs that I’ve looked at thus far are: Netsuite , Sage , GoldMine , Sugar , and Open Object. For example, Sugar and Open Object are open source options that have development communities adding features and functionality. With Sage and GoldMine you’re essentially buying a turnkey system (GoldMine is not hosted and runs on windows, Sage can be hosted online or on your own server). What advice do you have some firms that are just adopting a CRM?
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JULY 30, 2014
I want to talk to you about the concept of free, the concept of open learning, the concept of networked learning in a networked world and the concept of the institution. You may in certain sense think of this talk, together with the other talks, as a rebuttal to the way institutions are approaching Massive Open Online Courses and open learning generally today. Even the defenders of open content say, "Oh, you''re way over. or you can buy the season for $29.99
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
APRIL 27, 2009
The last group I want to mention consists of all the people and companies selling ad-on products and services on top of the basic computer systems, such as application developers. Over time, the IBM S/360 family , announced in 1964, emerged as the leading products of the central computing model. A fairly large ecosystem developed around S/360 of companies providing a large variety of hardware and software add-on products, applications and services.
Steven Berlin Johnson
MARCH 6, 2008
That would be prettyintense if Apple limited a crucial feature exclusively to users of aMicrosoft product. Apple should buy out BusyMac to enable over-the-air iPhone syncing. Posted by: MK | March 10, 2008 at 02:42 PM It seems that Microsoft Exchange is not the only implementation of Exchange ActiveSync on the server side: It's supported by both Scalix and Zimbra (I don't know to what extent though), and there's an open source implementation called Z-Push.
Dave Snowden
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Hence value functions (utility, production etc) and fitness functions (and thus fixed fitness landscapes ) are incorrect representations. Key dates: 1966 first experiments, 1970 patents granted 1982 MCI adopt, but AT&T breakup in 1984 allows emergence as they hold back development. ABB wanted to open it up in a profitable way. Interesting list of 30 types of information shared in product development (not time to type it but shows variety).
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 15, 2013
high cost; or campus access in central lab - open couyrses, MOOCs, highly distributed hardware - LabVIEW crosses these two envirnments Centralized lab: eg., matterhorn open source lecture capture - object information is lost Object-based - object remains intact, can be searched, etc - but you need dedicated recording and replay software - eg.
Doc Searls
MAY 9, 2012
It begins, Want to address ongoing concerns about the buying, selling and consolidation of people’s personal information without their knowledge or consent? In response, the Obama administration in February proposed a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights , which it’s pressing Congress to adopt. ” Notably, consumers might be shocked at how little their data buys them, while continuing to distrust what advertisers are doing with their data.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 24, 2014
As Peter said this is part 2 of a trilogy of talks, I gave the first one yesterday at University of Greenwich on the topic of "Open learning and open educational resources". What they are talking about these days is the destruction of the university at the hands of the massive open online course. As one of the people who invented the massive open online course, I feel a little personally involved here. They''re all sources of learning.
Andy McAfee
DECEMBER 1, 2008
It’s logical and natural to think that all the good new product ideas come out of the design department and R&D labs, that the folk in the IT department are the best ones to help you with your computer problem, and that the engineers are the only ones who can figure out why the doors start rattling after 5,000 miles on the road. I’d probably allow only group collaborative document production tools to have limited membership. (#3)
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 16, 2008
Probably the most notable of the specialized computers, the iPod, has become one of the most popular consumer products of all time. Digital cameras have essentially replaced traditional cameras; Polaroid is ceasing production of instant film in 2009. Dignan, 2008) Microsoft needs to virtualize Windows, to create versions tailored to different devices, simplifying the operating system providing a similar user experience across a wide range of products.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MAY 30, 2013
In this presentation Stephen Downes addresses the question of how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact the future of distance education. slide 1 – MOOC Wordle] My objective in this talk is to address how the massive open online course (MOOC) will impact the future of distance education, and in particular, strategies and examples of the use of MOOCs to promote cultural and linguistic diversity. That gives us four terms: ‘massive’, ‘open’, ‘online’, and ‘course’.
Nancy White
APRIL 10, 2009
In each case there have been the following factors where the organization: was a beneficiary of free or low cost SharePoint software did little to no assessment of their own needs and contexts had (are) used shared folders in the past as their main “collaboration&# approach identified “collaboration&# as a reason for implementing SharePoint did not have sufficient culture/leadership/process elements in place for the adoption. There has to be a more productive path.
Steve Denning
DECEMBER 23, 2010
For the last 150 years, the work of large organizations has been about mass production and making centralization effective. When leaders are bosses, organizations naturally adopt the disciplines of top-down hierarchies to assure that the individual intelligence of the leaders is properly leveraged across the work of large numbers of people. This is the remarkable power behind open source platforms.
Mark Oehlert
MARCH 5, 2008
which even amnesiacs can remember games.students get connected and wikis get adopted. » March 05, 2008 Big Basket of Stuff #1: Wikis, IMs, and 3D Pardon this hodge podge but I have waaayyy too many items to get through them individually and quite frankly the number of tabs I have open is getting a little scary. " Meebo announces new features and partners : "First off, they have introduced a developer API for their Meebo Rooms product.
Bob Sutton
JANUARY 3, 2011
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. James Adams: Good Products, Bad Products: Essential Elements to Achieving Superior Quality. We're documenting Mozilla's methods for spreading Firefox (its open-source web browser); the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's "100,000 Lives" campaign (an apparently successful effort to eliminate 100,000 preventable deaths in U.S. Bob Sutton.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 1, 2007
New technology-based capabilities often go from relative obscurity to market acceptance in one short year, - from being used primarily by leading edge adopters in research labs and universities, to being embraced by a wider marketplace. Buy and sell; bank; follow legislation; work together; access entertainment, earn a college degree, renew a drivers license. The rich media theory says we should be more productive with rich communications such as avatars, more personalization etc.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MAY 8, 2011
Day One Debate introduction Moderator Wayne Mackintosh The concept of Open Education Resources (OER) is firmly based on the educational value of sharing knowledge. A key issue in the open education arena is whether OER should favour commercial use. DayTwo Pro Opening statement David Wiley The question of this debate, “Should OER favour commercial use?”, After a few months, however, I became concerned because adoption of the license wasn’t great.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JUNE 22, 2020
To become a nurse is, for example, to adopt as a personal code the ethical norms and values that define that particular profession. And, as he notes, ““There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use it[s]resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition.” Another source of error is misinterpretation.
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