New Issues for OERs
This is based on my contribution to the new Creative Commons ‘Education Platform’ discussion of issues related to open educational resources (OERs). This is the next step following the development…
Stephen Downes
Learning Electron – Part 2
Continuing from Part 1 The story so far In Part 1 I covered the basics of Electron up to and including building executable applications from the Node.js application. In particular…
Learning Electron – Part 1
Over the holidays this year I indulged myself in some guilt-free play: learning Electron. I ran across it reading my Medium feed, via this article demonstrating how to build a…
What is Digital Literacy?
Short response to a questionnaire. 1. What is Digital Literacy Digital literacy is a type of literacy, specifically, the type of literacy that arises in the digital context. By ‘the…
Plans
As always, I (a) have plans, and (b) know that the plans never survive very long. That’s OK; I include options and backups in my plans, and I’m always ready…
State of the Universe
Yes, the world probably existed before me, and it will probably continue to exist after I’m gone, but for me, my life is the universe, and vice versa. This is…
The Wrong Choice
Joanne Jacobs links to an article titled Why I Wish I Hadn’t Gone to College by Keri Savoca. Savoca writes that she would have been a lot better off had…
Open Science Value Proposition
I am participating in a series of Open Science consultations within NRC, an effort that I hope will have long-term value for the organization and for Canadians. My first input…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 13
Workflow The next step in the use of badges is to develop a mechanism for awarding them. This is something that can generate a lot of labour in a hurry…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 12
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 obsolete, like badges, using a…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 11
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 long as it works. This…
Connectivism and Language Learning
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 connectivism in the context of…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 10
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 that were downloaded before I’m…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 9
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…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 8
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 caught up in things like…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 7
OK, I’ve put on some Cœur de pirate and am set for today’s work. Feeds One of the key attributes of gRSShopper is the harvester. This application scans websites for…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 6
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, not October, and something that…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 5
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 they were all done in…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 4
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 show slides and to include…
E-Learning 3.0 Course Synopsis
-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 the process of creating and…