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It prints out to course_feeds.htm But when a person submits a feed and needs to see right away what happened if there's an error, I can't just send them to the web page, because it only autopublishes once a day. MORE
It was designed to produce consistent performance from largely non-skilled workers. Then in due course the team is accountable for delivery. MORE
I think the key point here is to note that not everything is designed to increase test scores. People who have read my newsletter know that I greet each new announcement with a healthy dose of scepticism. In this post I discuss the nature (and weaknesses) of research in our field. MORE
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We launched the course this week and I did a bunch of things to get ready. First, a media summary view: Figure 63 - media_summary view in the Vide Editor Next, the Course Videos page newly created in the Page Editor. Newsletter sent. MORE
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Of course, that was not Weller's objective. I taught myself something called MVS-JES3 and also took a communications course called 'On the Way Up'. Baker's philosophy of mind class used a mainframe discussion board to argue course topics back and forth - I still have the complete archives from those discussions. And I started teaching courses, both for staff and evening students, teaching them about the fundamentals of the internet. But of course that's just a theory. MORE
To harvest the course data I'm actually using an NRC-built tool in development called BeeYard. This will be useful in the long ter as it allows me to centralize aggregation functions to course providers aren't hit by a million personal aggregators. It is the tool I use to run my website and newsletter. and distributes the newsletter, RSS feeds and podcasts. So now I have a version that holds my learning landscape database, another that holds courses, etc. MORE
Since 2001 at NRC I have worked on learning object standards and repositories, content recommender systems, collaborative content authoring technology, and massive open online courses (MOOCs). I am best known for my daily newsletter, OLDaily, which covers advances in educational technology, for contributions to connectivism, which is a learning theory based on distributed knowledge, and for the development of MOOCs. Please discuss about the importance of designing a course? MORE
Managers refrain from interrupting the work during the course of an iteration. MORE
For the page designer: 1. Pages may be returned into email newsletters; select that option and select an auto-send time (specify days of the week or month, time). When pages are set as email newsletters, they appear on the 'email newsletter' list. For course participants: 1. When registering, a list of newsletters is posted on the registration page, with default newsletters check (using a checkbox format). Check or uncheck desired newsletters. MORE
Thank goodness for friends and colleagues like Stephen Downes who filter and share via newsletters and Twitter. And yes, the book IS coming along – at the designers now!) MORE
Main | Alternative and Activist Search Engines » June 21, 2007 Video Killed the Radio Star but What About the Instructional Designer? They are of course free and ad supported by Google ads. Feature wise, many of the same features and employing some nice design as well. MORE
While the article doesnt give a direct link, I think this is the one here - of course I cant install Real Player at work so Ill have to wait until I get home or rely on someone out there for confirmation that this version of the player is sans ads but Im hopeful. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Teachertube Test | Main | Encyclopedia Britannica for the iPhone » April 03, 2008 Want RealPlayer without ads? Thank You BBC! MORE
So the form was not something we designed and implemented, at least, not explicitly so. One was the beginning of open online courses. We had both seen them in operation in the past, and had most recently been influenced by Alec Couros’s online graduate course and David Wiley’s wiki-based course. What made these courses important was that they invoked the idea of including outsiders into university courses in some way. MORE
Get the irregular and irreverent Pink Newsletter —full of ideas, excerpts, and freebies on working smarter and living better. Design (52). Design (52). 100 years ago The intrepid Maria Popova — BTW, if you’re not subscribing to her newsletter or following her on Twitter , you should — points to a really interesting item in How to Be a Retronaut. 100 years ago I schools we designed to mass product, moderately educated, obedient factory works. MORE
Get the irregular and irreverent Pink Newsletter —full of ideas, excerpts, and freebies on working smarter and living better. 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. Ie: Can you change it and use it to make better future decisions, change your course? Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan. MORE
The RSS Feed The course isn't truly distributed until it has an RSS feed. We'll use the course newsletter as our RSS feed, except we'll publish the output in rss2 format instead of HTML. And that’s all that will be available through the course feed. MORE
There are of course parallels to not only other militaries but to the corporate sector as well. Belly laughs, guffaws and chuckles Blogging Books Catch Up Collaboration Conference News Cool Tools Copyright and Patent Gold & BS Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks Culture Current Affairs design e-Learning Resources e-Learning/e-Teaching eco EduPatents eLearning Guild Emerging Tech Errata Ethno/Anthro Film Firefox From the land of "I wonder." MORE
Instructor: Stephen Downes This course explores the topic of learning in three ways: first, through an examination of research and development issues related to the topic; second, through interaction with a personal learning environment (specifically: LPSS) to take the course; and third, through activities supporting the development of a personal learning environment at a conceptual level. Participants may also be subscribed to a daily newsletter for the duration of the course. MORE
Linden’s Remedy : Give people the freedom to design their own jobs. Other measures are of course required to create a truly inspired workplace, but these three remedies are a good start. MORE
Of course not everyone played by those rules, but some of us had hope. Of course, blogging was just one of mechanisms for delivering the promise of the Net that had us so excited in the first place. ” Newsletters vs. Posts. Newsletters and ‘zines (remember when that was a word?) Blogs intersected uncomfortably with many online newsletters (including mine ). MORE
course as well. It loads new posts automatically into the newsletter, but only posts with a pub date of today. course, and it's only by a miracle (so I discover after the fact) that I have published and archive copies of my OLDaily newsletter. MORE
Get the irregular and irreverent Pink Newsletter —full of ideas, excerpts, and freebies on working smarter and living better. Design (52). Design (52). 5 email newsletters worth reading One reason I like writing email newsletters is that I also like reading them. Last month, a few folks asked me which e-newsletters I regularly read — not the ones I subscribe to, but those I actually read. Got e-newsletters that you enjoy? Dan Pink. MORE
[ Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - ] I have the basic structure of the course in place and now I want to fill it out with some content. The course starts in a couple of days and it's important to ensure people have something to see and work with. MORE
I believe it would be worth a few words to describe a course run by George Siemens and I last fall. The course was titled 'Connectivism and Connective Knowledge'. It was offered through the University of Manitoba as a credit course, but we also offered the course for free to any person interested. It came to be called the MOOC - Massive Open Online Course. 2200 people signed up for the course as non-paying participants. MORE
We're reorganizing again and I was recently asked about my education and training. MORE
These systems were modeled on distance education resources such as programmed texts and course workbooks. These were designed originally by organizations such as the Open University, in Britain, and Canada''s Athabasca University. Online courses were developed according to a protocol that developed over 20 years of experience. This project, funded by Foundations such as Hewlett, involved the conversion and distribution of all MIT course materials on the internet. MORE
George and I have been exchanging email since the late 1990s – we each had our own online newsletter (mine was OLDaily , his was called elearnspace ). The practical implementation of connectivism is the massive open online course, or MOOC. Rather, we encouraged people to create course content and to contribute to the course through their own websites, through discussion groups, communities, and and other forum they chose. MORE
I organize it try to find patterns and regularities in what I read and then I use that I apply that in the different projects that I do making podcast doing online courses etc and then a document that and there's a feedback looping there this feedback loop is absolutely essential to me, you know, the the questions the comments the criticisms, etc. So designing learning is to a large degree about finding those concepts. I took it burst courses. MORE
Now, of course, there is a political entity known as China. This produces a rich environment of public policy competition, where local governments compete with each other to design more attractive economic policies to attract investment. MORE
Courses Offering online courses allows me to test my ideas in the real world, both in terms of the course design and software itself, as well as in terms of the ideas presented through the course. course was an excellent example of this. I have a rough plan to offer three courses in 2019: Connectivism and Learning , reprising the content of the course I developed in Naples a couple years ago, but modified for delivery via gRSShopper in a cMOOC format. MORE
He used to do a monthly newsletter, but that appears to have been discontinued. Disclaimer: They have been generous in allowing us to continue using their Collaborate tool (formerly Elluminate) for open online courses). The problem, of course, is that higher education has not yet signaled, broadly, that they need or want this. They’ve continued to flesh out their product line : eportfolios, design wizards, mobile, etc. MORE
It's pretty easy to get caught up in things like video events and content and to forget that the true purpose of the course is connection. Of course we've done that with the Your Feeds page, but that page is designed for humans. 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
In this course the evidence comes in the form a blog post. We've already done the first three steps of this workflow, and they are basically one-time per course. It defines the options and the arrows, including the 'Post' button (which is used to convert a 'Link' into a 'Post', and thereby to include it in the newsletter (I have in the past simply place Link items directly into the newsletter, but either way, I need a means to edit before I place into the newsletter.) MORE
Who is this course for? If you're reading this, then this course is for you. You've demonstrated the main criterion: some degree of interest in the subject matter of the course. You might be thinking: this course looks too difficult, too technical, or too high level. MORE
The challenge of designing and building the bridge were significant. The initial design by engineer Joseph Straus was utilitarian and ugly: a combination of cantilever and suspension bridge. MORE
I pursued this thereafter, creating a compugraphics course, creating MUDs, and creating websites. I followed up reading Rumelhard and MacClelland, and attending a Connectionism conference in Vancouver in 1990, and developed a network-based approach from there, incorporating the web, RSS, email newsletters, and other decentralized and distributed practices. The course itself was George's idea. MORE
Get the irregular and irreverent Pink Newsletter —full of ideas, excerpts, and freebies on working smarter and living better. Design (52). Design (52). Warning: 1 in 5 teenagers will experiment with art The College for Creative Studies , the excellent art and design school in Detroit, has launched one of the smartest ad campaigns I’ve seen this year. Browse Similar Posts: Art , Design , Education. Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan. MORE
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This topic is designed to give you some tools and ideas for including social media appropriately in your overall organizational strategic plan and to measure its effectiveness. For example, you may try a blog as an alternative to a traditional email newsletter. MORE
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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JANUARY 6, 2012
So the form was not something we designed and implemented, at least, not explicitly so. One was the beginning of open online courses. We had both seen them in operation in the past, and had most recently been influenced by Alec Couros’s online graduate course and David Wiley’s wiki-based course. What made these courses important was that they invoked the idea of including outsiders into university courses in some way.
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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 21, 2018
We launched the course this week and I did a bunch of things to get ready. First, a media summary view: Figure 63 - media_summary view in the Vide Editor Next, the Course Videos page newly created in the Page Editor. Newsletter sent.
Dan Pink
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
Get the irregular and irreverent Pink Newsletter —full of ideas, excerpts, and freebies on working smarter and living better. Design (52). Design (52). 5 email newsletters worth reading One reason I like writing email newsletters is that I also like reading them. Last month, a few folks asked me which e-newsletters I regularly read — not the ones I subscribe to, but those I actually read. Got e-newsletters that you enjoy? Dan Pink.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 4, 2018
The RSS Feed The course isn't truly distributed until it has an RSS feed. We'll use the course newsletter as our RSS feed, except we'll publish the output in rss2 format instead of HTML. And that’s all that will be available through the course feed.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
course as well. It loads new posts automatically into the newsletter, but only posts with a pub date of today. course, and it's only by a miracle (so I discover after the fact) that I have published and archive copies of my OLDaily newsletter.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 30, 2018
It's pretty easy to get caught up in things like video events and content and to forget that the true purpose of the course is connection. Of course we've done that with the Your Feeds page, but that page is designed for humans.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 27, 2018
It prints out to course_feeds.htm But when a person submits a feed and needs to see right away what happened if there's an error, I can't just send them to the web page, because it only autopublishes once a day.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
DECEMBER 12, 2018
In this course the evidence comes in the form a blog post. We've already done the first three steps of this workflow, and they are basically one-time per course. It defines the options and the arrows, including the 'Post' button (which is used to convert a 'Link' into a 'Post', and thereby to include it in the newsletter (I have in the past simply place Link items directly into the newsletter, but either way, I need a means to edit before I place into the newsletter.)
Mark Oehlert
JULY 2, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « stu.dicio.us | Main | "Is Web 2.0 Safe?" (MSN
Dan Pink
AUGUST 2, 2011
Get the irregular and irreverent Pink Newsletter —full of ideas, excerpts, and freebies on working smarter and living better. Design (52). Design (52). 100 years ago The intrepid Maria Popova — BTW, if you’re not subscribing to her newsletter or following her on Twitter , you should — points to a really interesting item in How to Be a Retronaut. 100 years ago I schools we designed to mass product, moderately educated, obedient factory works.
Nancy White
AUGUST 26, 2008
Thank goodness for friends and colleagues like Stephen Downes who filter and share via newsletters and Twitter. And yes, the book IS coming along – at the designers now!)
Dan Pink
AUGUST 22, 2011
Get the irregular and irreverent Pink Newsletter —full of ideas, excerpts, and freebies on working smarter and living better. 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. Ie: Can you change it and use it to make better future decisions, change your course? Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Who is this course for? If you're reading this, then this course is for you. You've demonstrated the main criterion: some degree of interest in the subject matter of the course. You might be thinking: this course looks too difficult, too technical, or too high level.
John Hagel
SEPTEMBER 30, 2006
Now, of course, there is a political entity known as China. This produces a rich environment of public policy competition, where local governments compete with each other to design more attractive economic policies to attract investment.
Mark Oehlert
JUNE 21, 2007
Main | Alternative and Activist Search Engines » June 21, 2007 Video Killed the Radio Star but What About the Instructional Designer? They are of course free and ad supported by Google ads. Feature wise, many of the same features and employing some nice design as well.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
We're reorganizing again and I was recently asked about my education and training.
Dan Pink
DECEMBER 12, 2011
Get the irregular and irreverent Pink Newsletter —full of ideas, excerpts, and freebies on working smarter and living better. Design (52). Design (52). Warning: 1 in 5 teenagers will experiment with art The College for Creative Studies , the excellent art and design school in Detroit, has launched one of the smartest ad campaigns I’ve seen this year. Browse Similar Posts: Art , Design , Education. Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan.
Mark Oehlert
AUGUST 18, 2007
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Instructor: Stephen Downes This course explores the topic of learning in three ways: first, through an examination of research and development issues related to the topic; second, through interaction with a personal learning environment (specifically: LPSS) to take the course; and third, through activities supporting the development of a personal learning environment at a conceptual level. Participants may also be subscribed to a daily newsletter for the duration of the course.
Mark Oehlert
JULY 4, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « TED Videos - Watch em all!! via Boing Boing) | Main | Nothing to do with learning.but Transformers ROCKS! » July 04, 2007 Happy July 4th - Independence Day In the U.S.
Mark Oehlert
APRIL 3, 2008
While the article doesnt give a direct link, I think this is the one here - of course I cant install Real Player at work so Ill have to wait until I get home or rely on someone out there for confirmation that this version of the player is sans ads but Im hopeful. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Teachertube Test | Main | Encyclopedia Britannica for the iPhone » April 03, 2008 Want RealPlayer without ads? Thank You BBC!
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JULY 30, 2020
I organize it try to find patterns and regularities in what I read and then I use that I apply that in the different projects that I do making podcast doing online courses etc and then a document that and there's a feedback looping there this feedback loop is absolutely essential to me, you know, the the questions the comments the criticisms, etc. So designing learning is to a large degree about finding those concepts. I took it burst courses.
Mark Oehlert
DECEMBER 7, 2007
There are of course parallels to not only other militaries but to the corporate sector as well. Belly laughs, guffaws and chuckles Blogging Books Catch Up Collaboration Conference News Cool Tools Copyright and Patent Gold & BS Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks Culture Current Affairs design e-Learning Resources e-Learning/e-Teaching eco EduPatents eLearning Guild Emerging Tech Errata Ethno/Anthro Film Firefox From the land of "I wonder."
Nancy White
JUNE 7, 2009
This topic is designed to give you some tools and ideas for including social media appropriately in your overall organizational strategic plan and to measure its effectiveness. For example, you may try a blog as an alternative to a traditional email newsletter.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
APRIL 22, 2019
I pursued this thereafter, creating a compugraphics course, creating MUDs, and creating websites. I followed up reading Rumelhard and MacClelland, and attending a Connectionism conference in Vancouver in 1990, and developed a network-based approach from there, incorporating the web, RSS, email newsletters, and other decentralized and distributed practices. The course itself was George's idea.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MARCH 1, 2020
Of course, that was not Weller's objective. I taught myself something called MVS-JES3 and also took a communications course called 'On the Way Up'. Baker's philosophy of mind class used a mainframe discussion board to argue course topics back and forth - I still have the complete archives from those discussions. And I started teaching courses, both for staff and evening students, teaching them about the fundamentals of the internet. But of course that's just a theory.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 23, 2012
For the page designer: 1. Pages may be returned into email newsletters; select that option and select an auto-send time (specify days of the week or month, time). When pages are set as email newsletters, they appear on the 'email newsletter' list. For course participants: 1. When registering, a list of newsletters is posted on the registration page, with default newsletters check (using a checkbox format). Check or uncheck desired newsletters.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 2, 2017
To harvest the course data I'm actually using an NRC-built tool in development called BeeYard. This will be useful in the long ter as it allows me to centralize aggregation functions to course providers aren't hit by a million personal aggregators. It is the tool I use to run my website and newsletter. and distributes the newsletter, RSS feeds and podcasts. So now I have a version that holds my learning landscape database, another that holds courses, etc.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
Since 2001 at NRC I have worked on learning object standards and repositories, content recommender systems, collaborative content authoring technology, and massive open online courses (MOOCs). I am best known for my daily newsletter, OLDaily, which covers advances in educational technology, for contributions to connectivism, which is a learning theory based on distributed knowledge, and for the development of MOOCs. Please discuss about the importance of designing a course?
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
DECEMBER 12, 2014
These systems were modeled on distance education resources such as programmed texts and course workbooks. These were designed originally by organizations such as the Open University, in Britain, and Canada''s Athabasca University. Online courses were developed according to a protocol that developed over 20 years of experience. This project, funded by Foundations such as Hewlett, involved the conversion and distribution of all MIT course materials on the internet.
Steve Denning
DECEMBER 11, 2010
Linden’s Remedy : Give people the freedom to design their own jobs. Other measures are of course required to create a truly inspired workplace, but these three remedies are a good start.
Steve Denning
JANUARY 23, 2011
Managers refrain from interrupting the work during the course of an iteration.
George Siemens
APRIL 6, 2012
He used to do a monthly newsletter, but that appears to have been discontinued. Disclaimer: They have been generous in allowing us to continue using their Collaborate tool (formerly Elluminate) for open online courses). The problem, of course, is that higher education has not yet signaled, broadly, that they need or want this. They’ve continued to flesh out their product line : eportfolios, design wizards, mobile, etc.
David Weinberger
JANUARY 8, 2014
Of course not everyone played by those rules, but some of us had hope. Of course, blogging was just one of mechanisms for delivering the promise of the Net that had us so excited in the first place. ” Newsletters vs. Posts. Newsletters and ‘zines (remember when that was a word?) Blogs intersected uncomfortably with many online newsletters (including mine ).
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JANUARY 4, 2019
Courses Offering online courses allows me to test my ideas in the real world, both in terms of the course design and software itself, as well as in terms of the ideas presented through the course. course was an excellent example of this. I have a rough plan to offer three courses in 2019: Connectivism and Learning , reprising the content of the course I developed in Naples a couple years ago, but modified for delivery via gRSShopper in a cMOOC format.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 20, 2013
George and I have been exchanging email since the late 1990s – we each had our own online newsletter (mine was OLDaily , his was called elearnspace ). The practical implementation of connectivism is the massive open online course, or MOOC. Rather, we encouraged people to create course content and to contribute to the course through their own websites, through discussion groups, communities, and and other forum they chose.
Steve Denning
JANUARY 19, 2011
It was designed to produce consistent performance from largely non-skilled workers. Then in due course the team is accountable for delivery.
Steve Denning
DECEMBER 28, 2010
The challenge of designing and building the bridge were significant. The initial design by engineer Joseph Straus was utilitarian and ugly: a combination of cantilever and suspension bridge.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
I believe it would be worth a few words to describe a course run by George Siemens and I last fall. The course was titled 'Connectivism and Connective Knowledge'. It was offered through the University of Manitoba as a credit course, but we also offered the course for free to any person interested. It came to be called the MOOC - Massive Open Online Course. 2200 people signed up for the course as non-paying participants.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
I think the key point here is to note that not everything is designed to increase test scores. People who have read my newsletter know that I greet each new announcement with a healthy dose of scepticism. In this post I discuss the nature (and weaknesses) of research in our field.
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’.
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