The goal isn't to have well-trained employees

From Stephanie Allen and co’s new blog, “COP^2”:http://www.reusability.org/blogs/steph/ – “At the end of the day, employers do not want well-trained employees; they want employees who do their jobs well.” Looks like some fun research to follow over the summer.

July 13, 2003 · David Wiley

The goal isn’t to have well-trained employees

From Stephanie Allen and co’s new blog, “COP^2”:http://www.reusability.org/blogs/steph/ – “At the end of the day, employers do not want well-trained employees; they want employees who do their jobs well.” Looks like some fun research to follow over the summer.

July 13, 2003 · David Wiley

MIT alt-i-lab Days 2-3

My final summary from alt-i-lab (since I’m leaving to go home in an hour). ...

July 10, 2003 · David Wiley

MIT alt-i-lab Day One

Here’s a day one summary from Alt-i-lab. Also check “Raymond’s blog”:http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee/. ...

July 9, 2003 · David Wiley

Pitch

Here is some more detail on the new journal I described recently. ...

July 8, 2003 · David Wiley

Producers of Valuable Content

Spotted on OLDaily: “Jeff Jarvis says out loud what everybody has been thinking: ‘The real point: Ultimately, your content is more valuable than professional content.’ Think about that. When you open the morning mail, and you have a letter from your Aunt Mabel and a copy of a glossy magazine, which do you open first? A lot follows from this simple observation, and while I’m not sure how much of it AOL understands, it is clear that the get at least some of it.” Read more at “The BuzzMachine”:http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2003_07.html#004146. This article included another real gem: “It isn’t content until it’s linked.”

July 7, 2003 · David Wiley

On Openness, Process, and Forums

More response to comments from Stephen regarding the OpenContent / cc.edu goings-on. ...

July 3, 2003 · David Wiley

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

They say “No good deed goes unpuinished.” So it is fitting that “some people”:http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/research.cgi?item=1057097186 are complaining about the closing of OpenContent. ...

July 2, 2003 · David Wiley

Stanford CourseWork Released

Charles Kerns wrote to say that Stanford has officially released their open source course management system, “CourseWork”:http://coursework-demo.stanford.edu/coursework/. The system looks to do everything most people would want out of the box, and – being open source – can be made to do whatever else you like. Summarizing from the Stanford site: “CourseWork is an open source course management system, designed to provide an open, modular framework for learning objects. It uses OKI APIs whenever possible. Stanford’s implementation of CourseWork runs with the Apache web server, using TomCat 3.0 for the Java servlet server. DTL (Display Template Language), developed at Stanford, is used to create the presentation displays. The database back end is Oracle (but CW has also been ported to PostgreSQL). CourseWork has been run on both Sun Solaris and Linux. ...

July 1, 2003 · David Wiley

Learning Objects Symposium

Here is a quick recap of the days’ events (EdMedia LO Symposium), with some photos. I won’t provide too detailed a summary; for that, just go read the papers. ...

June 24, 2003 · David Wiley