Critical Facilities for Active Participation in Learning Networks
dspace.ou.nl/bitstream/1820/349/2/Critical+facilities+for+ac tive+participation_submIJWBC.pdf
- Hans G. K. Hummel, Colin Tattersall, Daniel Burgos,
Francis Brouns, Hub Kurvers & Rob Koper
Educational Technology Expertise Centre
Open University of the Netherlands
Abstract
This article investigates conditions for increasing active particip...more
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ASCII Star Wars
telnet:towel.blinkenlights.nl
- A telnet version of Star Wars in nothing but ASCII text
Created: Tuesday June 8th 2004 |
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Chaos and Complexity Theory in Education
http://www.udel.edu/aeracc/
- A site for those with a special interest in the application of chaos and complexity theory to education
- The AERA SIG on the subject (seems dormant)
Created: Saturday June 5th 2004 |
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Unbolting the Chairs:Making Learning Management Systems More Flexible
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=tutorials&artic le=22-1
- Sensible article by Michael Feldstein on the limitations of most varieties of LMS and the need for better ways of making mashups
Created: Thursday June 8th 2006 |
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The Eleventh Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks
http://www.aln.ucf.edu/
- 11th ALN Conference - November 17 - 19, 2005
Orlando, Florida
CFP deadline 2005: 30th April
Created: Wednesday April 13th 2005 |
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CoFIND source code
[EXPIRED] cofindcreate.zip
- The source code to the system used on this site. Free for UK academic use, anyone else should ask for permission from jon@cofind.net (mostly I will say yes). Note that this is not the most up to date version - contact me for the very latest all singing and dancing CoFIND code
Created: Monday May 3rd 2004 |
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The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0508082
- Fantastic article by Golder & Huberman from 2005 observing patterns of tag use on del.icio.us. All of it is good, including a great discussion of various forms of ambiguity etc in tagging and the relative merits/demerits of taxonomies vs folksonomies, but the really interesting bit comes towards the...more
Created: Thursday May 31st 2007 |
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Mini-ITX projects
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects.asp
- Building computers into more or less anything
Created: Saturday November 13th 2004 |
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Created: Tuesday March 2nd 2004 |
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Online self-organizing social systems: The decentralized future of online learning
http://wiley.ed.usu.edu/docs/ososs.pdf
- Wiley and Edwards on OSOSS - an interesting application of straightforward thinking on self-organisation, software and learning (published after Jon's PhD on the same subject)
Created: Friday December 8th 2006 |
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Ning
http://www.ning.com/
- Social software and more social software - very interesting platform for very wide range of sites doing the social software thing
Created: Saturday November 26th 2005 |
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The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl
- Very excellent journal that remains free and online - has published some very important articles in the field.
Created: Saturday December 23rd 2006 |
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NEJM -- The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/370
- This bizarre but apparently rigorous study makes use of social network analysis to demonstrate that obesity is, to some extent, socially transmitted. Between mutual male friends the risk of obesity increases by 100% if one becomes obese, with smaller effects shown with different ties and different g...more
Created: Thursday July 26th 2007 |
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W3.org
[EXPIRED] http://www.w3.org/
- The home of all things Web. The bible of the Web.
Created: Tuesday March 2nd 2004 |
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Monkeys Learn In The Same Way As Humans, Psychologists Report
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070801161511.ht m
- '"Many people," Kornell noted, "have had the experience of listening to a computer instructor open a menu and go through a series of steps. Then you try to do it, and you don't even know which menu or what the first step is. If you are passively following along, you won't remember it as well as if y...more
Created: Friday August 24th 2007 |
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TravelSupermarket UK
http://www.travelsupermarket.com/
- A useful one-stop shop for travel that includes the budget airlines as well as the more conventional ones in its listings. If nothing else, an easy way to compare prices.
Created: Tuesday January 23rd 2007 |
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Pathlore
http://www.pathlore.com/customer/products/index.asp
- Yet another commercial offering with few distinguishing features. Fairly popular in commercial circles. They say...
Pathlore Learning Management System (LMS) is a single integrated platform that is available in several product configurations with differing levels of functionality. This struct...more
Created: Monday April 10th 2006 |
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International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC) - 1 - 1
https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=50&y ear=2004&vol=1&issue=1
- Definitive journal on web-based communities
Created: Sunday November 21st 2004 |
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Christopher Alexander: A city is not a tree
http://www.rudi.net/pages/8755
- Marvellous analysis of some of the complex dynamics of cities
Created: Monday January 24th 2005 |
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Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
- Typically brilliant article on wicked problems with top-down approaches to metadata, and the power of wide-scale taggingand folksonomies
Created: Wednesday December 7th 2005 |
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