Stephen Downes

2 Mei 2024 A Couple Of Items That Caught My Attention Filed under: sekolah virtual — Michael K. Barbour @ 12:05

Bernard Pivot, did more than any other French journalist to get people to read, joined the extinct writers he loved.

The Financial Times reports, and Larry Sanger confirms, that Sanger is leaving Citizendium to work on (the more commercially viable?) Watchknow. "At best, Citizendium could be called a qualified success. Launched in March 2007, it currently lists 11,810 articles - 2,999,674 fewer than the English-language version of Wikipedia."

"Is Wikipedia," asks Steve Wheeler, "dying a slow death?" That might be a fair conclusion to draw following this report, "that Wikipedia has lost 49,000 editors in just a few months." Larry Sanger, who created Citizendium as a response to Wikipedia, suggests

Every two years, a musical feat of world standard is achieved by a young Australian in an unlikely Victorian country town. Shepparton.

When I first started in this business of working online some thirty years ago I was somewhat surprised to learn that it would involve more, not less, travel. And so here I sit on a red-eye to Morocco, not for the first time, to immerse myself in a world where the call to prayer happens five times daily, where I will give my talk in French, where, maybe, I will be able to buy a fez in Fes.

This presentation summarizes major factors - technology acceptance models, risk matrices, validity measures - used to assess a survey of instructors on their acceptance of instructional technology. Transcript.

It’s astonishing enough that 403 landscapes by Australian artists were entered in this year’s John Leslie Art Prize.

I’d like to think that ABC News’ revamped online iteration is like an ancient Aunty’s death rattle. Surely, its demise must follow.

What leadership approach provides maximum support for the exploration and appropriate implementation of AI in education? This is a talk I gave for the EDDE program at Athabasca University last night. Slides only at the moment; I hope to have audio and video soon.