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Monday, May 03, 2004

How to End Grade Inflation. A modest proposal. By Michael BÉrubÉ. [New York Times: Education]
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Learning Object Repositories, Digital Repositories, and the Reusable Life of Course Content - Phillip D. Long, Syllabus. Course management systems have gone mainstream. If your college doesn’t have one, it will. Richard Katz, director of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), describes this as an evolution from “…small, often sub-rosa tools used by quirky facul [Online Learning Update]
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Canadian users' rights petition officially launched. The Petition for Users' Rights under Copyright law in Canada (see previous blog posting) has been officially launched, with links to a press release and instructions on how to sign the petition (in English and French). (Source: Chris Brand via Peter Suber) [Open Access News]
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A picture named opml.gifWow, this is cool. The next release of Microsoft's OneNote will import OPML outlines. Very good. Of course it should export them too. The old Microsoft would never have done this, in fact there's an old Microsoft guy running around the syndication community, he's one of the biggest advocates of reinventing everything just for the sake of revinvention. It takes a lot for a big company like Microsoft to adopt a format developed outside, esp one not developed at another BigCo. Thanks for setting a great example. Google, please pay attention to this. You lose nothing by keeping the number of formats small, by building on other people's work instead of undermining it, by not being evil. You already knew that, at the top, but perhaps some of the new guys don't understand what it means. It's in the company prospectus. So I hope you won't mind if we hold you to a higher standard. I assume that's why it's there. [Scripting News]
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Growing Teeth with Stem Cell Technology [Slashdot]
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Learning resource discovery based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH'.

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/powell/ From the latest issue of ARIADNE, comes this article by Andy Powell and Phil Barker detailing the development of a LOM-based application profile and the sharing of these resources using the OAI-PMH. Lots of good references, and I found the sections regarding their vocabularies and the issue of identifiers quite helpful. - SWL [EdTechPost]


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