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Chris Barlas - Digital Rights Expression Languages (DRELs) - Jisc
Very good article written for JISC on digital rights expression languages (DRELs), a set of languages aptly described as ways of codifying "instructions for digital rights management systems". People familiar with DRELs may want to skip directly to part 9, which describes the author's projections on the role of DRELs in the future, though the paper is sufficiently up to date readers may find it useful to look at things like the description of DReaM-MMI, which was only made public in March of this year. I like the distinction between enforcement and trust systems, but I think the article c From
OLDaily on July 7, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Jennifer McLean - Forgotten Faculty: Stress and Job Satisfaction Among Distance Educators - Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
Useful study which conforms generally to my own experience. The author writes, "it is important to recognize that distance educators view themselves as dedicated almost exclusively to instruction. The traditional triad of higher educators sharing their time between teaching, service and scholarship is not perceived as applicable." Moreover, "the strong independence shown by this panel makes conformity to institutional regulations less likely among distance educators." You mean I was not supposed to partition the institution server and set up my own private multi-user environment? Heh. S From
OLDaily on July 7, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Nick Timiraos - Free, Legal and Ignored - Wall Street Journal
Even the Wall Street Journal is recognizing the futility of the business models being proposed my online misic services. "College students don't turn down much that's free. But when it comes to online music, even free hasn't been enough to persuade many students to use such digital download services as Napster, Rhapsody, Ruckus and Cdigix." As it turns out, reports the article, people prefer to have music collections that they own, rather than to merely rent. Also, the mishmash of proprietary systems raises the problem of compatibility. But that now leaves universities in a bind From
OLDaily on July 7, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Robert Sylwester - Connecting Brain Processes to School Policies and Practices - BrainConnection
The concept of 'brain-based teaching', strictly speaking, doesn't make sense, argues this column. "We educators tended to blindly follow the instructional advice of those who seemed to understand brain processes. We were thus vulnerable to bogus claims that brain research had validated this or that curricular program or instructional strategy." I believe that what I have to say about learning is supported by brain research - but I would be very hesitant to say that it is brain-based, because knowledge about learning involves more than just the neural processes in a brain, and is From
OLDaily on July 7, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Various authors - Web 2.0 Slides
Funny. "Web2.0Slides is a self-running slide show of over 1,400 of the best Web2.0 sites. It's categorized by tags and sorted alphabetically. What's cool about it? You can click on any site in the left-hand column to pause the slide show and surf around. When you're done, simply click PLAY, and it will begin right where you left off." Nifty way to show links - I looked for a way to do a TagSlide demo for OLDaily. I signed on with my new
OpenID address. But there's no way to add new links. Still, pretty nifty. Via
OLDaily on July 7, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Airborn blogging
This is my first blog post from the sky. I'm over the North Atlantic, just about to enter Continental Europe. My Lufthansa flight has Boeing wi-fi. It's not a speed demon. Images crawl open. The price is $10 an hour, $15 for two hours, or $28 for an entire trip. This is a ten-hour flight [...] From
Internet Time Blog on July 7, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..