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As a result, a large part of my work involves being exposed to new and interesting technologies, whether they are the latest military simulators, academic papers delivered at scientific conferences, or product proposals being promoted by aspiring developers. Don't ask me what companies are developing what products, how industry stocks are performing, or where all the 'smart money' is going. Nobody will be fooled well, except maybe purchasers of fad educational products. MORE
Six men from six companies give brief overviews of their products. Center for Open Science , which sounds great. [ ” This can easily double R&D productivity “because you stop missing those false negatives.” Open source communities are better at collaborating than most academic research communities are. The principles of open source can be applied to private projects as well. MORE
Discussion of Microsoft vis-a-vis Facebook, whether people use Sharepoint, its relation to open source, etc.) Brian Behlendorf, Apache Software Foundation Peer Production and Public Policy Talking about trying to encourage government and the private sector to work together to solve some of the big problems of the world. Obama's open government initiative memo - order to make government more transparent, participatory and collaborative. MORE
and Social Computing Guidelines and why you would still need them ) I guess it’s now a good time to talk further along about the next pillar in the framework: Building a Solid Library of Use Cases. . Innovation Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership MORE
Mass production will almost always be more efficient. Designs will be a great source of value, but the 3D printer movement has been heavily associated with ‘open source’ already. Free design libraries already exist online, such as Thingiverse , where people can upload and share 3D designs at no cost.”. I have no doubt that open source models will continue to be prominent in 3D printing. MORE
Over and over, IBM has provided me with opportunities to indulge this love of mine, from mainframes and supercomputers to the Internet, open source and grid computing. I cannot say enough about the inspiration I have gotten by interacting closely with so many of our clients, learning about their problems, how they use our products, what works well and what does not. My hope is that you will continue your observations, continue to open our minds to the potential. MORE
link] December 3-14, 2012 Open Content Licensing for Educators (#OCL4Ed), organized by the OER Foundation, offered online. link] December 4-6, 2012 International Symposium on Open, Distance, and e-Learning (ISODEL), Bali, Indonesia. Clayton R. MORE
Indeed, one of the challenges is to arrive at a definition of an open license that allows for such agreement. I say 'definition of an open license' because I now believe that it is possible to arrive at one. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. the content, for any purpose, one in which the source (or encoding) of the content is accessible (ie., MORE
The Foundation is interested in understanding how digital media tools – which enable new forms of knowledge production, distribution, social networking and collaboration – might influence citizen engagement, political activity and democratic participation." I was asked to make some opening remarks as a way to frame the dialogue. The open source community responsible for the development and support of Linux represents one of the most innovative organizational models around. MORE
Darnton goes on to say; "Commercial publishers have raised the price of periodicals, especiallyin the natural sciences, to such a height that they have created havocin the budgets of research libraries. MORE
The 10 best downloads of 2007 2007 Edublog Award Winners and of course, Stephen Downes Not the eduBlog Award Winners List The Top Inventions Of 2008 Highlight: "By the end of 2008 the Project Gutenberg Library will be as large -- or larger--than the average United States Public Library." At some point next year, I suppose I’m going to need to drink the Apple Kool-Aid, and hope the increased productivity is worth the sack to my identity as a PC guy." 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
Even worse, I like bookstores better than I like libraries because I like to write in my books as I read and dog-ear pages and in general, rough them up a bit as I read them. Any analytical thinking from reading helps keep the mind agile and open to discovery of the answers sought. 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?”, On June 8, 1999 I released the Open Publication License. Reusable Media, Social Software and Openness in Education. MORE
" Here are a couple focused on learning: "Most of this study is in the form of programmed TV courses, which canbe rented or borrowed from tape _ * libraries. 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. I''m one of the people that had a significant hand in designing the original concept of the Massive Open Online Course. MORE
VRM is an open source project (although there are some commercial projects underway also). Identities are given to us by other corporations: what the DMV, the library, Visa (etc) tell us who we are. Q: What about customized fabrication, i.e., making products in response to customer desires. Doc Searls is giving a Berkman lunch called “The Intention Economy.&# [ Note: I'm live-blogging, missing points, paraphrasing badly, making spellping errors, etc. MORE
Twelve national Toyota training entities were trying to offer relevant and timely product information to roughly 17,000 sales professionals and managers. The key is single-source learning. DevLearn marked a significant shift in the field of corporate learning. MORE
My Vermont buddie, Dave Burke , was tantalizing me last September with the kit of open source.net tools he was blending into a community platform. Sueetie: The Future in.NET Open Source Online Community Development - Home Page. I also enjoyed the Manifesto: Sueetie is a movement that promotes the creation of online communities using.NET Open Source software. Sueetie developers write original code or leverage code from Open Source resources. MORE
This is not a regulatory group; everything will be open source, and progress will be through rough consensus. He points to the opportunities presented by aggregated Big Data: the effects on social science, on libraries, etc. Michael Stebbins, Assistant Director for Biotechnology in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House, talked about the Administration’s enthusiasm for Big Data and open access. MORE
On the other hand, this morning Antonio, who is doing some work for the Library Innovation Lab this summer, poked his head in and pointed us to a jquery -like data visualization library. So, global software productivity just notched up. I forked yesterday for the first time. MORE
Predicted: The "middle path"—proprietary lock-in services, like Vista, iTunes, Facebook, and Second Life, will be abandoned for more open commercial alternatives rather than free and open source software and content. Personal networks" will be created by individuals to manage and share their contacts and information sources; people will "peer" into each others' networks or subscribe to filtered versions of each others' network feeds. MORE
And so we've seen the emergence and wild popularity of things like open source, like Creative Commons, like podcasting, like Web 2.0. Product, if you actually have a product or the skill to make one. Unless you already have a deal with a publisher (who will do the marketing you need to get this kind of sales - because that's the only way to do it) you may as well give the book away for free, hope to get a little income from library orders , and focus on other things. MORE
Massive Open Online Course The Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, is a bit of a reaction to this. Very briefly, what I mean by a Massive Open Online Course, is a course that satisfies each of those four terms. By open , I mean, open across many dimensions. Open, not in the sense of anybody can enroll, but open, in the sense of the content is free and open to use, to reuse, and there aren''t limits on the use of the course materials. MORE
Recent mass phenomena: Wikipedia, tagging, blogging, Scratch, massive open online courses and connectivism, citizen science, maker-space Who is creating these? But we need frames of reference on MOOCs: many of them are looked at by econonomic (scale, productivity, cost) and technology perspectives. So - what are the open issues. - So the most productive activity took place at the middle level. This created productive heterogeneity. MORE
Open Studio was the name of the event. PDP 1) Platform 2) Open Source Tools 3) Photo/Video/Audio Editing software 4) Data Visualizations. TimelineJS, GeoJSON, D3 Libraries… Not all stories are profoundly digital. Much higher than industry average open rates. MORE
We should expect other hardware companies to launch pads running on open source operating systems, especially Android and Symbian. Then you can go to Costco, the tire store, and the university library and do the same. Android, Symbian, Linux and other open OSes, with the open hardware they support, work horizonally. What about using a tablet as a production device, and not just an instrument of consumption? MORE
These were designed originally by organizations such as the Open University, in Britain, and Canada''s Athabasca University. Open Education Resources Alongside the development of educational technologies is an equally important movement to support open educational resources. This movement predates the development of the world wide web in 1994, as seen for example in the Gutenberg Project, an open access archive of public domain works of classic literature. MORE
The second time at a conference (or at a venue) is always more productive than the first. I took the venue as my starting point; the organizers wanted a talk on openness, and the audience consisted of managers and decision-makers, so I described a policy framework for open learning. MORE
eLearning Guilds Summer Seminar Series | Main | Off Topic: Lets look at this at this as a chance to learn about oil » June 19, 2008 Soapbox for the Day: Academic Journals like Field Methods, that dont support things like access to their content Honest to goodness, someone please respond to me so we can have an open conversation about this. Have you researched Open Access Journals and found that model to be wanting? MORE
The role of the teacher in this model is to practice one’s work in an open manner. This has been a challenge, I think, for pretty much all of society, but the idea here is that instead of doing your work in secret in back rooms without being open about what you do, you do your work in an open and transparent manner so that people can see what you’re doing. These are technologies that make it possible for a person to practice their discipline in an open manner. MORE
Its also worth noting that the evidence for the success of scenario planning is largely anecdotal, and the anecdotes are from restricted sources in the main Shell. I have seen excellent cases where a scenario planning session can open people up to new possibilities, sensing that a different future is possible from the current imaginings of fear that can haunt people in difficult circumstances. The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. MORE
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 the Forest Products Association of Canada argues "greater federal support in research and development would help maximize engagement in the forest sector’s innovation agenda." Nathalie Mousseau argues for investment in scientific and research libraries. MORE
These include open-source, proprietary, cloud-based, and fully hosted. Putting together content for courses – Some hosted learning management systems have a built-in course content library. A course content library makes essential tasks simple for administrators. MORE
“Libraries are starting to throw away books at a velocity.” Brewster wants to show us how to build on free and open software. Stahlman tried to keep the open code feature-compatible, but it couldn’t be done. Open Source doesn’t work well there. MORE
Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Flickr Photo by DonkeyHotey. 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. We build tools, develop capacity, support the OER Commons library, etc. 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. MORE
Jim knows 26 things about libraries, he tells us. [ The library community has to be at the table. Build the digital library. MOOCS cannot be successful without libraries at the table.”. Develop new markets and products. Rethink library space planning. MORE
Im also opposed to the conflation of ISD with anything that has to dowith learning instead of being honest about what something like ADDIEis - a production model not a design process. MORE
David Weinberger
APRIL 25, 2014
“Libraries are starting to throw away books at a velocity.” Brewster wants to show us how to build on free and open software. Stahlman tried to keep the open code feature-compatible, but it couldn’t be done. Open Source doesn’t work well there.
Nancy White
DECEMBER 29, 2008
My Vermont buddie, Dave Burke , was tantalizing me last September with the kit of open source.net tools he was blending into a community platform. Sueetie: The Future in.NET Open Source Online Community Development - Home Page. I also enjoyed the Manifesto: Sueetie is a movement that promotes the creation of online communities using.NET Open Source software. Sueetie developers write original code or leverage code from Open Source resources.
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 20, 2016
and Social Computing Guidelines and why you would still need them ) I guess it’s now a good time to talk further along about the next pillar in the framework: Building a Solid Library of Use Cases. . Innovation Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 20, 2013
Jim knows 26 things about libraries, he tells us. [ The library community has to be at the table. Build the digital library. MOOCS cannot be successful without libraries at the table.”. Develop new markets and products. Rethink library space planning.
Mark Oehlert
JANUARY 23, 2008
Even worse, I like bookstores better than I like libraries because I like to write in my books as I read and dog-ear pages and in general, rough them up a bit as I read them. Any analytical thinking from reading helps keep the mind agile and open to discovery of the answers sought.
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
Six men from six companies give brief overviews of their products. Center for Open Science , which sounds great. [ ” This can easily double R&D productivity “because you stop missing those false negatives.” Open source communities are better at collaborating than most academic research communities are. The principles of open source can be applied to private projects as well.
David Weinberger
AUGUST 4, 2011
On the other hand, this morning Antonio, who is doing some work for the Library Innovation Lab this summer, poked his head in and pointed us to a jquery -like data visualization library. So, global software productivity just notched up. I forked yesterday for the first time.
TOPYX LMS
APRIL 13, 2017
These include open-source, proprietary, cloud-based, and fully hosted. Putting together content for courses – Some hosted learning management systems have a built-in course content library. A course content library makes essential tasks simple for administrators.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 5, 2010
Discussion of Microsoft vis-a-vis Facebook, whether people use Sharepoint, its relation to open source, etc.) Brian Behlendorf, Apache Software Foundation Peer Production and Public Policy Talking about trying to encourage government and the private sector to work together to solve some of the big problems of the world. Obama's open government initiative memo - order to make government more transparent, participatory and collaborative.
David Weinberger
JULY 19, 2012
This is not a regulatory group; everything will be open source, and progress will be through rough consensus. He points to the opportunities presented by aggregated Big Data: the effects on social science, on libraries, etc. Michael Stebbins, Assistant Director for Biotechnology in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House, talked about the Administration’s enthusiasm for Big Data and open access.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
link] December 3-14, 2012 Open Content Licensing for Educators (#OCL4Ed), organized by the OER Foundation, offered online. link] December 4-6, 2012 International Symposium on Open, Distance, and e-Learning (ISODEL), Bali, Indonesia. Clayton R.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
DECEMBER 12, 2014
These were designed originally by organizations such as the Open University, in Britain, and Canada''s Athabasca University. Open Education Resources Alongside the development of educational technologies is an equally important movement to support open educational resources. This movement predates the development of the world wide web in 1994, as seen for example in the Gutenberg Project, an open access archive of public domain works of classic literature.
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. We build tools, develop capacity, support the OER Commons library, etc. 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.
Doc Searls
DECEMBER 12, 2013
Open Studio was the name of the event. PDP 1) Platform 2) Open Source Tools 3) Photo/Video/Audio Editing software 4) Data Visualizations. TimelineJS, GeoJSON, D3 Libraries… Not all stories are profoundly digital. Much higher than industry average open rates.
Doc Searls
APRIL 2, 2010
We should expect other hardware companies to launch pads running on open source operating systems, especially Android and Symbian. Then you can go to Costco, the tire store, and the university library and do the same. Android, Symbian, Linux and other open OSes, with the open hardware they support, work horizonally. What about using a tablet as a production device, and not just an instrument of consumption?
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. I''m one of the people that had a significant hand in designing the original concept of the Massive Open Online Course.
Beth Kanter
DECEMBER 8, 2011
Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Flickr Photo by DonkeyHotey.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
DECEMBER 12, 2013
Massive Open Online Course The Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, is a bit of a reaction to this. Very briefly, what I mean by a Massive Open Online Course, is a course that satisfies each of those four terms. By open , I mean, open across many dimensions. Open, not in the sense of anybody can enroll, but open, in the sense of the content is free and open to use, to reuse, and there aren''t limits on the use of the course materials.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
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 the Forest Products Association of Canada argues "greater federal support in research and development would help maximize engagement in the forest sector’s innovation agenda." Nathalie Mousseau argues for investment in scientific and research libraries.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
Twelve national Toyota training entities were trying to offer relevant and timely product information to roughly 17,000 sales professionals and managers. The key is single-source learning. DevLearn marked a significant shift in the field of corporate learning.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MAY 21, 2014
Recent mass phenomena: Wikipedia, tagging, blogging, Scratch, massive open online courses and connectivism, citizen science, maker-space Who is creating these? But we need frames of reference on MOOCs: many of them are looked at by econonomic (scale, productivity, cost) and technology perspectives. So - what are the open issues. - So the most productive activity took place at the middle level. This created productive heterogeneity.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 11, 2008
The Foundation is interested in understanding how digital media tools – which enable new forms of knowledge production, distribution, social networking and collaboration – might influence citizen engagement, political activity and democratic participation." I was asked to make some opening remarks as a way to frame the dialogue. The open source community responsible for the development and support of Linux represents one of the most innovative organizational models around.
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?”, On June 8, 1999 I released the Open Publication License. Reusable Media, Social Software and Openness in Education.
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
JANUARY 4, 2009
As a result, a large part of my work involves being exposed to new and interesting technologies, whether they are the latest military simulators, academic papers delivered at scientific conferences, or product proposals being promoted by aspiring developers. Don't ask me what companies are developing what products, how industry stocks are performing, or where all the 'smart money' is going. Nobody will be fooled well, except maybe purchasers of fad educational products.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 26, 2011
The second time at a conference (or at a venue) is always more productive than the first. I took the venue as my starting point; the organizers wanted a talk on openness, and the audience consisted of managers and decision-makers, so I described a policy framework for open learning.
David Weinberger
MARCH 24, 2009
VRM is an open source project (although there are some commercial projects underway also). Identities are given to us by other corporations: what the DMV, the library, Visa (etc) tell us who we are. Q: What about customized fabrication, i.e., making products in response to customer desires. Doc Searls is giving a Berkman lunch called “The Intention Economy.&# [ Note: I'm live-blogging, missing points, paraphrasing badly, making spellping errors, etc.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
DECEMBER 25, 2008
Predicted: The "middle path"—proprietary lock-in services, like Vista, iTunes, Facebook, and Second Life, will be abandoned for more open commercial alternatives rather than free and open source software and content. Personal networks" will be created by individuals to manage and share their contacts and information sources; people will "peer" into each others' networks or subscribe to filtered versions of each others' network feeds.
Dave Snowden
APRIL 20, 2009
Its also worth noting that the evidence for the success of scenario planning is largely anecdotal, and the anecdotes are from restricted sources in the main Shell. I have seen excellent cases where a scenario planning session can open people up to new possibilities, sensing that a different future is possible from the current imaginings of fear that can haunt people in difficult circumstances. The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
Mark Oehlert
JANUARY 11, 2008
Darnton goes on to say; "Commercial publishers have raised the price of periodicals, especiallyin the natural sciences, to such a height that they have created havocin the budgets of research libraries.
Mark Oehlert
APRIL 3, 2008
" Here are a couple focused on learning: "Most of this study is in the form of programmed TV courses, which canbe rented or borrowed from tape _ * libraries.
Mark Oehlert
JANUARY 11, 2008
The 10 best downloads of 2007 2007 Edublog Award Winners and of course, Stephen Downes Not the eduBlog Award Winners List The Top Inventions Of 2008 Highlight: "By the end of 2008 the Project Gutenberg Library will be as large -- or larger--than the average United States Public Library." At some point next year, I suppose I’m going to need to drink the Apple Kool-Aid, and hope the increased productivity is worth the sack to my identity as a PC guy."
Mark Oehlert
JUNE 19, 2008
eLearning Guilds Summer Seminar Series | Main | Off Topic: Lets look at this at this as a chance to learn about oil » June 19, 2008 Soapbox for the Day: Academic Journals like Field Methods, that dont support things like access to their content Honest to goodness, someone please respond to me so we can have an open conversation about this. Have you researched Open Access Journals and found that model to be wanting?
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 19, 2006
And so we've seen the emergence and wild popularity of things like open source, like Creative Commons, like podcasting, like Web 2.0. Product, if you actually have a product or the skill to make one. Unless you already have a deal with a publisher (who will do the marketing you need to get this kind of sales - because that's the only way to do it) you may as well give the book away for free, hope to get a little income from library orders , and focus on other things.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
DECEMBER 22, 2008
Indeed, one of the challenges is to arrive at a definition of an open license that allows for such agreement. I say 'definition of an open license' because I now believe that it is possible to arrive at one. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. the content, for any purpose, one in which the source (or encoding) of the content is accessible (ie.,
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
DECEMBER 20, 2007
The role of the teacher in this model is to practice one’s work in an open manner. This has been a challenge, I think, for pretty much all of society, but the idea here is that instead of doing your work in secret in back rooms without being open about what you do, you do your work in an open and transparent manner so that people can see what you’re doing. These are technologies that make it possible for a person to practice their discipline in an open manner.
Mark Oehlert
JUNE 11, 2008
Im also opposed to the conflation of ISD with anything that has to dowith learning instead of being honest about what something like ADDIEis - a production model not a design process.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 22, 2007
Over and over, IBM has provided me with opportunities to indulge this love of mine, from mainframes and supercomputers to the Internet, open source and grid computing. I cannot say enough about the inspiration I have gotten by interacting closely with so many of our clients, learning about their problems, how they use our products, what works well and what does not. My hope is that you will continue your observations, continue to open our minds to the potential.
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