Author: Stephen Downes

The Badge API and Setting Up Badges This actually represents almost a week’s worth of work. You might ask, why am I working on something

Badges I looked at openbadges.me and Badgr and selected the latter mostly because it’s where the Mozilla Backpack project landed. My allegiance will last as

This is in response to the following question from a student in Iran: I am going to start an academic project on the application of

Harvesting, Again I’m having issues with the harvester again. There are two distinct problems:– The harvester isn’t harvesting– When I do harvest, it’s downloading things

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

Syndication Syndication is the core of the cMOOC approach to learning and we haven’t talked about it at all yet. It’s pretty easy to get

[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] OK, I’ve put on some

Ethics I’ve just finished sending off the ethics review board (REB) documents for research ethics review. This is something I should have done in August,

We launched the course this week and I did a bunch of things to get ready. This summarizes them in no particular order (except that

Activities Each week of the course will feature some events. These are mostly live video conferences with guests. I also want to be able to

-1. Getting Ready Connectivism is based on the idea that knowledge is essentially the set of connections in a network, and that learning therefore is

[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – ] I have the basic structure of the course in place and now I want to

This is a summary of the talk “Assessing Evidence in CPD: Meeting Standards and Missing Goals” (aka Baffled, Befuddled and Bemused) by Michael Allen, at

In the previous segment I decided to create a course with modules and sections, and set up the modules. I’ll fill out the actual content

One of the fun things about working with software I wrote myself is that I get to try new things. For example, instead of creating

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

Notes from Dan Pontefract’s talk at Focus 2018, Montreal Beginning with the idea of being distracted, rather than ruminating in thought. We have accepted that.

Reading this month’s First Monday, which was a special issue on the emoji, inspired me to a creative thought, which I document here. The thought

OER stands for ‘Open Educational Resources’ and as readers know I have been a long-time proponent of free and open learning resources. So why would

Steve Wheeler posted a nice article called 12 Tips for Great Speaking today.He’s had a lot of experience on the public speaking circuit and there’s