This one was just too funny not to repost. Enjoy this conversation between a Microsoft recruiter and Eric Raymond (Founder and Emeritus President of the Open Source Initiative) in which M$ mistakenly makes Eric a job offer.
Tag Archive for 'general'
| A couple of times a year I update this page with longer pieces written as peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, or presentations. Enjoy! |
| 2004 |
| Scalability and Sociability in Online Learning Environments HTML |
| Supporting Student Autonomy Online HTML |
| Commentary on Downes’ Resource Profiles PDF |
| IMS/SSP Comes So Close HTML |
| 2003 |
| A beginner’s guide to blogs. HTML |
| OSOSS – Crisis / Response. HTML |
| Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities. PDF |
| A brief history of the blog. In A. Kovalchick & K. Dawson (Eds.) Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. PDF |
| Keeping the Baby and the Bath Water. HTML |
| 2002 |
| Online self-organizing social systems: The decentralized future of online learning. Quarterly Review of Distance Education. (With Erin Brewer). PDF |
| A proposed measure of discussion activity in threaded discussion spaces. Working Draft PDF |
| Learning objects need instructional design theory. In A. Rossett (Ed.) The 2001/2002 ASTD Distance Learning Yearbook. New York: McGraw-Hill. PDF |
| Learning objects — a definition. In A. Kovalchick & K. Dawson (Eds.) Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. PDF |
| CAREER Grant – A mediated action study of learning object use in online learning communities. PDF |
| The coming collision between the automated instruction and learning communities camps of online learning research. Working Draft DOC |
| Component Display Theory. In A. Kovalchick & K. Dawson (Eds.) Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. PDF |
| OpenCourseWare. In A. Kovalchick & K. Dawson (Eds.) Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. PDF |
| A unified design framework for learning objects and educational discourse. PDF |
| 2001 |
| EduCommons. (With Mimi Recker and Andy Gibbons). PDF |
| An empirical estimate of student growth in beginning music theory: Results and pedagogical implications. (With Leo Welch). PDF |
| About the RLO strategy white paper. HTML |
| Connecting learning objects to instructional design theory: A definition a metaphor, and a taxonomy. In D. A. Wiley (Ed.), The Instructional Use of Learning Objects. Bloomington, IN: Association for Educational Communications and Technology. DOC |
| "Web-based instruction" should never have happened (oh, never mind – it’s dead anyway). Tech Trends PDF |
| What is the Internet ran like the U.S. public education system. Tech Trends PDF |
| The teacher’s outrageous claim to intellectual property. Tech Trends HTML |
| Collaboratively filtering learning objects. In D. A. Wiley (Ed.), The Instructional Use of Learning Objects. Bloomington, IN: Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (With Mimi Recker and Andy Walker). DOC |
| A non-authoritative educational metadata ontology for filtering and recommending learning objects. Journal of Interactive Learning Environments. The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger. (With Mimi Recker). PDF |
| 2000 |
| In defense of the by-hand assembly of learning objects. (With Mimi Recker and Andy Gibbons). PDF |
| A reformulation of learning object granularity. (With Mimi Recker and Andy Gibbons). PDF |
| An exploratory study of the statistical and educational implications of violations of the assumptions of parametric analysis techniques. (With Vic Bunderson and Jim Olsen). PDF |
| When worlds collide. PDF |
| Learning object design and sequencing theory. Dissertation PDF |
| Getting students interested: An integrated approach to Keller’s ARCS model of motivational design. Instructional Design Project PDF |
| Structured metadata spaces. Journal of Internet Cataloging. 3(2/3), pp. 263 – 277. Binghamton, NY: Haworth. (With Tom Wason). PDF |
| 1999 |
| Three common properties of efficient online instructional support systems. ALN Magazine. (With Joe South, Julene Bassett, Laurie Nelson, Larry Seawright, Trent Peterson, and David Monson). HTML |
| The post-LEGO learning object. PDF |
| So what do I do with a learning object?. PDF |
| Metadata mall. HTML |
| Dynamic directory structures. PDF |
| An intelligent method for searching metadata spaces. Epistemology Course Final Paper PDF |
| My, what an intelligent tool you have!. IMS White Paper HTML |
| Why semantic structures?. IMS White Paper HTML |
| 1998 |
| Towards a definition of fundamentality. HTML |
| It’s… fundamentality 2.0!. HTML |
| Iterative formation of learning environments based on self-similar primedial objects (for dummies). (With Laurie Nelson, David Monson, and Joe South). HTML |
Well, for all of their existence the reusability.org blogs have been powered by Movable Type. But not for much longer, I guess. This morning 6A announced their new licensing plans. The free version of MT is now severely crippled: “No more than one author and three weblogs.” This certainly puts reusability.org over the limit, with 12 authors hosting 15 blogs here.
Continue reading ‘MT Affronts, Offends, Loses’
This entry has nothing to do with Instructional Technology, so skip on to the Pitch announcement if that?s the kind of thing you?re interested in.
Continue reading ‘Finishing Off the Old Testament: ?Progress?’
Quoting from a new paper by “The Center for Economic and Policy Research”:http://www.cepr.net/ Co-Director Dean Baker,
The AFV is an alternative designed to maximize the power of individual choice, while working with the full potential of technology. Whereas the copyright system provides a state-enforced monopoly leading to enormous costs, inefficiencies and enforcement problems, the AFV provides a voucher system for creative workers that would lead to savings to consumers, taxpayers and the government. Lower advertising costs, an end to police or FBI crackdowns on students downloading music, and less monitoring by internet service providers of their customers are just a few examples of savings from the AFV system.
The full paper is available at “http://www.cepr.net/AFV.htm”:http://www.cepr.net/AFV.htm
