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The Draft Report of the American Council of Learned Societies' Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences
A lengthy document in which the authors cover a lot of ground. I get the sense that they are awed by the scale of the task that lies ahead. "If the promise of the digital library is to be realized, then humanists and social scientists need to contribute to the design and development of tools for digital humanities and social science, and support systems for that development effort will need to be built." Via From OLDaily on November 10, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Jay's Eclectic Interests
Jay Cross unrolls SuperGlu and unveils his new aggregation blog. It looks great and I love the content. ;) [ From OLDaily on November 10, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Jordan e-learning Plan May Go Global , Aljazeera
Jordanians completing a pilot project in e-learning were sufficiently pleased to tell the World Economic Forum that the program could serve as a global template. The project, launched as a partnership with Microsoft, "forged partnerships between the global and local private sector, with Jordanian firms benefiting from international cooperation and investment." [ From OLDaily on November 10, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Teacher Gleans Federal Kudos for Bookless Classroom , Deseret Morning News
Sign of the times. And while this teacher is getting the kudos, you can be sure there are many other teachers following the same path. The justification is in the experience: "It's night and day to what those kids will learn using my method or using a textbook.... Textbooks only get in the way." [ From OLDaily on November 10, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

UNESCO Virtual Conference--Lawrence Lessig on the Creative Commons , EduResources Weblog
Discussion continues at the UNESCO Virtual Conference on open education, and bits and pieces are leaking into the blogosphere (thankfully). In this item Joseph Hart summarizes Lawrence Lessig's discussion of From OLDaily on November 10, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

No Subjects, No Teachers, No Schools, No Peers , Temasek Polytechnic
It should be evident that subject-based teaching and project-based learning conflict with each other. "subjects or disciplines have their own agenda... [and] the retention of subject boundaries will inevitably compromise the design ofauthentic problems for PBL." So write Kelvin Tan and Cynthia Lim Ai Ming as they are for a subject-free approach to learning. They further argue against the imposition of group learning in a problem-based setting. "The worry is that too much time and energy is spent on resolving individual differences within a group, rather than tapping on the different strengths From OLDaily on November 10, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Workflow, Power, and Negotiation , Scott's Workblog
Some transactions need to be conducted without negotiation. Red lights at intersections automate what might otherwise be a dangerous intersection as drivers nodded, signaled or just ploughed through. The placement of a stamp on an envelop (you remember those, right?) automated the agreement to deliver a message around the world. But that said, Scott Wilson is correct to question the limits of automation in workflows. There needs to be a capacity to bypass the automated system, to allow human intervention to over-ride the default, if not to at reassure us of our freedom, then to at least allow From OLDaily on November 10, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Structured Blogging for Learning Objects? , Opencontent
David Wiley, who has been demonstrating structured blogging with a series of recent (and interesting) From OLDaily on November 10, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Anticipating Round 2: European Software Patents , FLOSSE Posse
In 43 minutes I will get in a taxi and start my journey toward the From OLDaily on November 10, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..