By Stephen Downes
November 24, 2003
PEGGasus Opens for Business Nov.
24
One of my projects launches today, the PEGGasus learning
marketplace. "The PEGGasus vision is to bring together, in
one location, information about as many professional
development events and opportunities as possible - a
location where these opportunities can be searched,
evaluated and selected by people in the Alberta engineering
and geoscience professions. We want to be your resource of
choice on matters of continuing professional development."
Originally based on my paper, The
Learning Marketplace, PEGGasus has benefited from two
years of collaboration and development by the Association
of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of
Alberta (APEGGA), the Institute for Professional
Development at the University of Alberta and Terra Prime.
At the launch, PEGGasus lists more than 1500 items
harvested from 30 sources, according to today's news release. Since today is launch day,
expect some tweaks to the system. But after a shakedown of
a few months, we expect to have a model we can export to
other professional development communities. "What makes
PEGGasus unique in Canada is the fact that it brings
together, in one virtual location, information about as
many professional development events and opportunities as
possible for Alberta’s geoscience and engineering
community," says PEGGasus Market Development Manager Derek
McCune. "The one-stop shopping approach not only allows
users to search, evaluate and select opportunities but an
additional feature allows users to initiate a standing
search agent service that will alert them by e-mail when an
opportunity that meets their specific needs becomes
available." PEGGasus is located at http://www.peggasus.ca By Various
Authors, APEGGA, November 24, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Resource Profiles
Finally
finished! The idea of a resource profile is that it is a
multi-faceted, wide ranging description of a resource. A
resource profile conforms to no particular XML schema, nor
is it authored by any particular author. Additionally,
unlike traditional resource descriptions, which are
presumed to be instantiated as a single digital file and
located in a particular place, a resource profile may be
distributed, in pieces, across a large number of locations.
And there is no single canonical or authoritative resource
profile for a given resource. This paper describes the need
for resource profiles, outlines their major conceptual
properties, describes different types of constituent
metadata, and examines the use of resource profiles in
practice. Also, check out the new layout I am playing
with... By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, November 23, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Blogs, Learning Objects and Other Cool
Stuff!
Long delayed (because I kept intending to
add more content, but never did), an MS Word document and
associated PowerPoint Slides from my preconference
workshop at NAWeb 03. Sorry if it ends a little abruptly...
By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, October 19, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Too Quick to Copyright
In a
nutshell: "Teenagers who illegally download music or who
cut and paste term-paper material from web sites are not
the worst copyright cheats. Corporations routinely flout
copyright laws when they claim ownership of works that are
free for everyone to use." Quite right. PDF. By Jason
Mazzone, Legal Times, November 17, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
eduSource Key Planning
Documents
I'm not sure when this page went up,
but as you can see from the dates on the documents the
creation of these resources has occupied myself and the
rest of the eduSource team for the bulk of the last year.
Of most importance (to me) are the eduSource Vision Statement, hammered
together at the end of last year, and the Use Cases document, put together through
the summer. Still to come is an architecture document and,
of course, the software itself. By Various Authors,
eduSource Canada, December 31, 200-31 8:33 p.m.
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Newly Published E-Learning
Guides
From Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing,
an always useful guide: "The UK's Learning and Teaching
Support Network (LTSN), is a network of 24 subject centres
based in higher education (HE) institutions throughout the
UK which aims to promote high quality learning and teaching
through the development and transfer of good practices in
all subject disciplines, and to provide a 'one-stop shop'
of learning and teaching resources and information for the
HE community. LTSN has just published 5 guides to
e-learning, all of which are available for free download as
PDF files.
I had a look through the guides and they are brief, well
written, and fairly comprehensive. They will be especially
useful to those new in the field, and are a nice
organization of the material for those with more
background. By Seb Schmoller, November 23, 2003
[
Refer][
Research][
Reflect]
Embedding the Skills to Teach Online: Is It
Technical or Personality Skills That Are
Needed?
The responses to this question from a
group of people involved in e-learning in the U.K. are
surprisingly similar: while technology competence is
required, it is only required to a point, after which
teaching and tutoring skills take over. The group was also
asked to provide influential references, and the resulting
links will make a good evening's reading. 4 page PDF file.
By Seb Schmoller, October 5, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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