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Of course, all these companies want to help me do everything, by leveraging the “social&# data they have about me. The declaration of the next wave of the Web being personal is not shared universally, of course. Of course, my6sense is one of those companies. MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. MORE
I say 'unremarked', but of course outside education there is a boom in the quantified self movement (I use RunKeeper myself). Everything I translate from Arabic Facebook accounts, for example, sounds like a prayer, which of course it is, but it is also an expression of intent and meaning; the same words carry multiple layers. When we are trying to rescue a crashing airplane, we do not have time for a three-week course. Or perhaps will buy a bicycle. MORE
While most advertising didn’t come from Madison Avenue, or practice big-budget branding methods, it was still simple and straightforward: companies buying time and space to send messages across to target groups. Of course. Like clothing and buildings, advertising’s brand signal is impersonal and non-conversational, by design. For a crash course on how this is going, read Bob Hoffman’s Ad Contrarian blog, watch this speech , and read this one. MORE
8:04 pm Stephen Downes MOOC = ''Massive Open Online Course'', cMOOC = ''connectivist MOOC'', xMOOC = ''eXtended MOOC'' 8:04 pm WILLIAM A. how will the cMOOC framework translate to a science/math course that traditionally requires a lot of "instruction" and "testing"? MORE
Those were twice the price of first class stamps. Of course there are many forms of actual distance at the technical and economic levels: latencies, bandwidth limits, service fees, censors. The world of distance. Fort Lee is the New Jersey town where my father grew up. MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Bob Sutton. MORE
Then on Twitter, Livia Labate, who leads the experience design practice for Marriott International asked, “Dear @AdaptivePath, what is a UX Manager?” I see the occasional rant about "you can't design experiences" and "you can't manage and experience." MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. MORE
I just didn’t buy the iPad Pro alone, by the way. From my user experience with other iPad models in the recent past, I knew I’d need to buy the Smart Keyboard , so I did purchase one. Of course, it doesn’t, it’s a laptop! MORE
The next generation will be designed specifically for digital delivery, and break down how we study into a less linear market. million enrollments in a shorted masters program at a discounted price. The scale will more than offset the lower price. to deliver specific courses. Response - about 1/4 of the people who start do the majority, about 20 percent complete the course. Courses are totally online. I missed the first talk: I have put in some tweets. MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. MORE
Kickstarter , of course, but not just for startups trying to kickstart their business. When you check out, you’re given sliders so you can divvy up the amount as you want among the game developers, including sending some or all to two designated charities. Buying a Humble Bundle is a great experience. You have an opportunity to do some good by buying these games. You buy your PC game at their site, download it from them, and start it up from there. MORE
Following the Edupunks' Guide, she would find some recipes using Google, perhaps find a Khan-style course, and if very lucky, a Thai cooking Google group. In so doing, a person might take a course, search for recipes, ask for help, or - in the style of the underrated film ' The Raman Girl ' or that overrated film ' The Karate Kid ' - find a mentor to show you how to steam noodles. A few years ago, you may have had to take a class or at least buy a cookbook. MORE
If I buy a bread, do I have relationship with the baker? If its any good, Ill go back and buy some more. If its very good, Ill go back, buy some more, and praise them whenever I can - until they mess up There is, in short, my relationship with a vendor: none. MORE
I’m investigating what it takes for a learner to become self-sufficient, to both learn and design learning experiences. They contain studies of learning from the frameworks of design, teaching, networks, tech, brain science, and positive psychology. Instructional design? MORE
They are however designed to be standalone talks as well so hopefully you will not be as unfulfilled after the talk as you might be afraid of being. She challenges the concept of the Massive Open Online Course by asking, "What is the problem that MOOCs appear to have solved?" MORE
Design (52). Design (52). How to understand regret — and 2 ways to avoid it Sometimes when I’m stuck on a course of action, I use two techniques to help me decide. It’s just not worth the mental price to win (get my way) and yet lose the other person (regret). MORE
In fact, of course, if you think about it, it was even worse than that. Keep up with prices for things you want that have changed, across multiple sites. Intentcast to multiple stores your intention to buy something, and say under what conditions you’d be willing to buy it. This was to be my September column for the subscriber edition of Linux Journal, which was terminated last week after 25 years in business. MORE
This is an instructional designer’s record of twelve years’ experience. Advice is for building courses. Don’t buy photos until you get final approval.” “Use Use animation to spice up a course.” Today I paid my $9.99 MORE
Why in the world do I need to buy a library of training from SkillSoft (just an example) when I can just cherry pick the training I want to pay for (for me or my people) right from here? Open Sesame provides a commodity marketplace for training courses. . Game design. MORE
Reuters reports: The next phase of development will be to enable phone users to Shazam actual objects, said Riley, such as a cereal packet in the grocery store to get more nutritional information or a DVD case at home to buy the movie soundtrack. The capability is not new, with services such as Amazon Firefly allowing users to identify objects and buy them on Amazon, and Slyce identifying objects within a store for lookup and purchase. Design. In-store comparative pricing. MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Bob Sutton. MORE
If we start to get critical mass in acceptance of Bitcoin and well-designed mobile and web Bitcoin wallets it is absolutely possible for it to be a significant rival to cash for peer-to-peer payments. Buying, storing, and transacting Bitcoin can be complex and unwieldy. MORE
Contextual includes: geo-political, energy prices, social values, etc. Different business models, different courses: create scenarios. Growth varies: in some countries is consistent, in others it’s rapid, in others fluctuating or even in design. Question: Impact of Purdue buying Kaplan. John Daniel Open Education in a Closing World The end of WWII marked the emergence of a new world order maked by the universal declaration of human rights. MORE
In 1979, Steve Jobs asked Xerox to let him tour PARC, and in return he would allow Xerox to buy a hundred thousand shares of Apple for a million dollars. Jobs raced back to Apple and told his engineers to change the course of the personal computers under development and copy the Alto’s advanced capabilities he had just been shown at PARC. But, did they actually steal the design for the Lisa and the Macintosh from Xerox, the legend implies? MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. MORE
UNESCO (again) - "For students, OERs offer free access to some of the world’s best courses and even degree programs. For teachers, ministries of education and governments, OERs provide free and legal access to some of the world’s best courses." OER ensures that students have access to all course material from the first day of class." I would suggest that faculty weren't interested in offering or using open access long before publishers changed their prices. MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. MORE
The price of academic journals rose ten times faster than the rate of inflation in the 1990s. The average list price in chemistry is over $3,000. Of course, professors and students produced the research and provided it for free to the publishers. Now they’d have to buy them back at a price set by Google. Of course a lot remains to be done. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. MORE
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. MORE
initiatives to challenge institutional structure by starting dialogiues - SU was very good with communicating with students throught the process - Birmingham - projects innvoate in specific courses - led by SU - w/ student-staff teams bringing forward specific projects. lists, not tables) Roger Henry - ''Your Business Future'' - OERs in the business course - videos. - wikipedia, (compare with microcosm - which linked to dictionary definitions - but you had to buy the OED to do it MORE
If personal data is actually a commodity, can you buy some from another person, as if that person were a fruit stand? Nor is there much if any evidence that businesses will want to buy personal data from individuals, on a per-person basis, especially when they can still get it for free. Club good: e.g., bridges, cable TV, private golf courses, controlled access to copyrighted works. Of course Jefferson never heard of data. MORE
It is neatly summed up in an Inside Higher Ed article : "Like traditional publishers, it commissioned and paid authors to produce high-quality textbooks, and to market those textbooks to professors to assign in their courses." It's the same model being embraced by the companies that are offering MOOCs, and it won't be long, as a commenter on the IHE article states, before they are offering closed open online courses. MORE
To be clear, this is not another training course. Then we have Anne Pendleton-Julian (subject to confirmation) whose new book with John Seeley Brown is an important contribution to a much needed evolution of design thinking. MORE
Let’s start with price. Here in the industrialized world, price has been something that sellers have set, and buyers have paid, ever since John Wanamaker invented the price tag in the late 1800s. A price is a signal. So is buying something. MORE
We're going to talk about the factors that led to the development of the Massive Open Online Course and Connectivism and the new phenomena in learning today. Distance learning therefore required the creation and distribution of learning content, of course packages that would support independent study. They had the model of the course packages, and they had the model of the classes. WebCT in English stands for "Web Course Tools." Of course, we had instant messaging. MORE
If you buy a new iPhone from Sprint they’ll buy back your iPhone 4s for $235. Sprint is paying $125 for an 8 GB iPhone 4 and Gazelle is paying $145 for a 16 GB iPhone 4 which means that it you can get the $199 upgrade price, your out of pocket could be as little as $54. So is seeing that I can’t get a trade-in price without visiting a store.). One reason, of course, is to give us better search results. MORE
Empire Avenue was never intended to be a “serious game&# in the sense that games designed purposely for learning are. Of course, it can be played purely as a game and that’s okay as well. Whether anyone buys your stock depends on your perceived value. MORE
Design (52). Design (52). Browse Similar Posts: Design , Economics , Politics. Of course. Great argument but don’t fall for the “include sales tax on the price” pitch! What really bothers me is the 9/10 of a cent on the price of gasoline. MORE
Who would listen to an MP3 when they could buy a better-sounding CD at the record store? The people in the music industry weren’t stupid, of course. Higher education is now being disrupted; our MP3 is the massive open online course (or MOOC), and our Napster is Udacity, the education startup. We have several advantages over the recording industry, of course. Seeing this, he quit and founded Udacity, an educational institution designed to offer MOOCs. MORE
Buy Course Design Price Jay Cross
APRIL 20, 2015
This is an instructional designer’s record of twelve years’ experience. Advice is for building courses. Don’t buy photos until you get final approval.” “Use Use animation to spice up a course.” Today I paid my $9.99
Ross Dawson
MARCH 6, 2015
Reuters reports: The next phase of development will be to enable phone users to Shazam actual objects, said Riley, such as a cereal packet in the grocery store to get more nutritional information or a DVD case at home to buy the movie soundtrack. The capability is not new, with services such as Amazon Firefly allowing users to identify objects and buy them on Amazon, and Slyce identifying objects within a store for lookup and purchase. Design. In-store comparative pricing.
Bob Sutton
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions.
Bob Sutton
MARCH 7, 2011
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions.
Bob Sutton
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions.
Bob Sutton
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions.
Dan Pink
AUGUST 22, 2011
Design (52). Design (52). How to understand regret — and 2 ways to avoid it Sometimes when I’m stuck on a course of action, I use two techniques to help me decide. It’s just not worth the mental price to win (get my way) and yet lose the other person (regret).
Bob Sutton
OCTOBER 7, 2011
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions.
David Weinberger
JUNE 2, 2012
Kickstarter , of course, but not just for startups trying to kickstart their business. When you check out, you’re given sliders so you can divvy up the amount as you want among the game developers, including sending some or all to two designated charities. Buying a Humble Bundle is a great experience. You have an opportunity to do some good by buying these games. You buy your PC game at their site, download it from them, and start it up from there.
Kevin Wheeler
MAY 9, 2011
Empire Avenue was never intended to be a “serious game&# in the sense that games designed purposely for learning are. Of course, it can be played purely as a game and that’s okay as well. Whether anyone buys your stock depends on your perceived value.
Jay Cross
MARCH 10, 2015
I’m investigating what it takes for a learner to become self-sufficient, to both learn and design learning experiences. They contain studies of learning from the frameworks of design, teaching, networks, tech, brain science, and positive psychology. Instructional design?
Dave Snowden
JULY 9, 2017
To be clear, this is not another training course. Then we have Anne Pendleton-Julian (subject to confirmation) whose new book with John Seeley Brown is an important contribution to a much needed evolution of design thinking.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
UNESCO (again) - "For students, OERs offer free access to some of the world’s best courses and even degree programs. For teachers, ministries of education and governments, OERs provide free and legal access to some of the world’s best courses." OER ensures that students have access to all course material from the first day of class." I would suggest that faculty weren't interested in offering or using open access long before publishers changed their prices.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JULY 30, 2014
They are however designed to be standalone talks as well so hopefully you will not be as unfulfilled after the talk as you might be afraid of being. She challenges the concept of the Massive Open Online Course by asking, "What is the problem that MOOCs appear to have solved?"
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 18, 2017
The next generation will be designed specifically for digital delivery, and break down how we study into a less linear market. million enrollments in a shorted masters program at a discounted price. The scale will more than offset the lower price. to deliver specific courses. Response - about 1/4 of the people who start do the majority, about 20 percent complete the course. Courses are totally online. I missed the first talk: I have put in some tweets.
Ross Dawson
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
If we start to get critical mass in acceptance of Bitcoin and well-designed mobile and web Bitcoin wallets it is absolutely possible for it to be a significant rival to cash for peer-to-peer payments. Buying, storing, and transacting Bitcoin can be complex and unwieldy.
Doc Searls
AUGUST 12, 2019
In fact, of course, if you think about it, it was even worse than that. Keep up with prices for things you want that have changed, across multiple sites. Intentcast to multiple stores your intention to buy something, and say under what conditions you’d be willing to buy it. This was to be my September column for the subscriber edition of Linux Journal, which was terminated last week after 25 years in business.
Bob Sutton
NOVEMBER 20, 2011
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Bob Sutton.
Doc Searls
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
If personal data is actually a commodity, can you buy some from another person, as if that person were a fruit stand? Nor is there much if any evidence that businesses will want to buy personal data from individuals, on a per-person basis, especially when they can still get it for free. Club good: e.g., bridges, cable TV, private golf courses, controlled access to copyrighted works. Of course Jefferson never heard of data.
Bob Sutton
MARCH 18, 2011
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions.
Bob Sutton
DECEMBER 17, 2010
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions.
Bob Sutton
MARCH 20, 2011
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. Price: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions.
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
I just didn’t buy the iPad Pro alone, by the way. From my user experience with other iPad models in the recent past, I knew I’d need to buy the Smart Keyboard , so I did purchase one. Of course, it doesn’t, it’s a laptop!
Doc Searls
SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
If you buy a new iPhone from Sprint they’ll buy back your iPhone 4s for $235. Sprint is paying $125 for an 8 GB iPhone 4 and Gazelle is paying $145 for a 16 GB iPhone 4 which means that it you can get the $199 upgrade price, your out of pocket could be as little as $54. So is seeing that I can’t get a trade-in price without visiting a store.). One reason, of course, is to give us better search results.
Doc Searls
JULY 19, 2010
Let’s start with price. Here in the industrialized world, price has been something that sellers have set, and buyers have paid, ever since John Wanamaker invented the price tag in the late 1800s. A price is a signal. So is buying something.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Contextual includes: geo-political, energy prices, social values, etc. Different business models, different courses: create scenarios. Growth varies: in some countries is consistent, in others it’s rapid, in others fluctuating or even in design. Question: Impact of Purdue buying Kaplan. John Daniel Open Education in a Closing World The end of WWII marked the emergence of a new world order maked by the universal declaration of human rights.
Adaptive Path
JUNE 20, 2012
Then on Twitter, Livia Labate, who leads the experience design practice for Marriott International asked, “Dear @AdaptivePath, what is a UX Manager?” I see the occasional rant about "you can't design experiences" and "you can't manage and experience."
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
initiatives to challenge institutional structure by starting dialogiues - SU was very good with communicating with students throught the process - Birmingham - projects innvoate in specific courses - led by SU - w/ student-staff teams bringing forward specific projects. lists, not tables) Roger Henry - ''Your Business Future'' - OERs in the business course - videos. - wikipedia, (compare with microcosm - which linked to dictionary definitions - but you had to buy the OED to do it
Martijn Linssen
AUGUST 17, 2010
If I buy a bread, do I have relationship with the baker? If its any good, Ill go back and buy some more. If its very good, Ill go back, buy some more, and praise them whenever I can - until they mess up There is, in short, my relationship with a vendor: none.
Clay Shirky
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Who would listen to an MP3 when they could buy a better-sounding CD at the record store? The people in the music industry weren’t stupid, of course. Higher education is now being disrupted; our MP3 is the massive open online course (or MOOC), and our Napster is Udacity, the education startup. We have several advantages over the recording industry, of course. Seeing this, he quit and founded Udacity, an educational institution designed to offer MOOCs.
Mark Oehlert
APRIL 19, 2012
Why in the world do I need to buy a library of training from SkillSoft (just an example) when I can just cherry pick the training I want to pay for (for me or my people) right from here? Open Sesame provides a commodity marketplace for training courses. . Game design.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 12, 2012
In 1979, Steve Jobs asked Xerox to let him tour PARC, and in return he would allow Xerox to buy a hundred thousand shares of Apple for a million dollars. Jobs raced back to Apple and told his engineers to change the course of the personal computers under development and copy the Alto’s advanced capabilities he had just been shown at PARC. But, did they actually steal the design for the Lisa and the Macintosh from Xerox, the legend implies?
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 19, 2011
The price of academic journals rose ten times faster than the rate of inflation in the 1990s. The average list price in chemistry is over $3,000. Of course, professors and students produced the research and provided it for free to the publishers. Now they’d have to buy them back at a price set by Google. Of course a lot remains to be done. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information.
Dan Pink
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Design (52). Design (52). Browse Similar Posts: Design , Economics , Politics. Of course. Great argument but don’t fall for the “include sales tax on the price” pitch! What really bothers me is the 9/10 of a cent on the price of gasoline.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 8, 2011
Following the Edupunks' Guide, she would find some recipes using Google, perhaps find a Khan-style course, and if very lucky, a Thai cooking Google group. In so doing, a person might take a course, search for recipes, ask for help, or - in the style of the underrated film ' The Raman Girl ' or that overrated film ' The Karate Kid ' - find a mentor to show you how to steam noodles. A few years ago, you may have had to take a class or at least buy a cookbook.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MARCH 7, 2013
We're going to talk about the factors that led to the development of the Massive Open Online Course and Connectivism and the new phenomena in learning today. Distance learning therefore required the creation and distribution of learning content, of course packages that would support independent study. They had the model of the course packages, and they had the model of the classes. WebCT in English stands for "Web Course Tools." Of course, we had instant messaging.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
It is neatly summed up in an Inside Higher Ed article : "Like traditional publishers, it commissioned and paid authors to produce high-quality textbooks, and to market those textbooks to professors to assign in their courses." It's the same model being embraced by the companies that are offering MOOCs, and it won't be long, as a commenter on the IHE article states, before they are offering closed open online courses.
Doc Searls
APRIL 2, 2011
Of course, all these companies want to help me do everything, by leveraging the “social&# data they have about me. The declaration of the next wave of the Web being personal is not shared universally, of course. Of course, my6sense is one of those companies.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MAY 8, 2013
8:04 pm Stephen Downes MOOC = ''Massive Open Online Course'', cMOOC = ''connectivist MOOC'', xMOOC = ''eXtended MOOC'' 8:04 pm WILLIAM A. how will the cMOOC framework translate to a science/math course that traditionally requires a lot of "instruction" and "testing"?
Bob Sutton
JANUARY 15, 2012
Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesnt buy results | Business | The Observer. Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Bob Sutton.
Doc Searls
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
While most advertising didn’t come from Madison Avenue, or practice big-budget branding methods, it was still simple and straightforward: companies buying time and space to send messages across to target groups. Of course. Like clothing and buildings, advertising’s brand signal is impersonal and non-conversational, by design. For a crash course on how this is going, read Bob Hoffman’s Ad Contrarian blog, watch this speech , and read this one.
Doc Searls
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Those were twice the price of first class stamps. Of course there are many forms of actual distance at the technical and economic levels: latencies, bandwidth limits, service fees, censors. The world of distance. Fort Lee is the New Jersey town where my father grew up.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MARCH 4, 2016
I say 'unremarked', but of course outside education there is a boom in the quantified self movement (I use RunKeeper myself). Everything I translate from Arabic Facebook accounts, for example, sounds like a prayer, which of course it is, but it is also an expression of intent and meaning; the same words carry multiple layers. When we are trying to rescue a crashing airplane, we do not have time for a three-week course. Or perhaps will buy a bicycle.
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