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EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online
This weblog focuses on locating, evaluating, discussing, and providing guidelines to instructional resources for faculty and students in higher education. The emphasis is on free, shared, HE resources. Related topics and news (about commercial resources, K-12 resources, T&D resources, educational technology, digital libraries, distance learning, open source software, metadata standards, cognitive mapping, etc.) will also be discussed--along with occasional excursions into more distant miscellaneous topics in science, computing, and education. The EduResources Weblog operates in conjunction with a broader weblog called The Open Learner about using open knowledge resources across a diversity of subjects, levels, and interests for a wide range of learners and learning communities--students in schools and colleges, home schoolers, hobbyists, vocational learners, retirees, and others.
        

Monday, September 15, 2003

This article by Michael Singer is an informative, readable summary of the current status of the semantic web developments. JH ____

Semantic Web: Out of the Theory Realm [ResourceShelf]
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Stephen Downes is correct, this EDUCAUSE Review article is must reading for anyone interested in knowledge networks. As the authors say, "The bottom line? Dare to share! Taken separately, e-learning, knowledge management, and IT have failed to provide strategic differentiation for colleges and universities. But by combining the three in higher education, e-knowledge can avoid suffering the same fate if it is used to change the dynamics of institutional business practices and to create new knowledge-based experiences, unleashing enhanced value."

JH _____

A Revolution in Knowledge Sharing. This may be the most important article you read this year. The authors document the fundamental shift in the learning landscape taking place right now: the sharing of knowledge. And they nail it: what makes knowledge sharing inevitable and important is the nature of knowledge: "There is no simple, linear hierarchy and progression from data to information to knowledge. In reality there is a complex intermeshing, such as a continuous churning of insight, the meaning of which changes in different contexts and through conversations with different participants." Because of this, to work with knowledge, what you need are not some sort of linear "delivery systems" but rather "knowledge networks". The authors outline four major types: description, discovery and exchange of content; interaction with and tracking of content; applications systems interoperability; and infrastructure interoperability. If we look at knowledge today and tomorrow, what we see in general is a progression from static,independent, stand-alone, contextless knowledge objects to a network of dynamic, related, context-embedded flows of knowledge within a network. This produces what the authors call a "revolution in knowledge sharing" where "leading-edge individuals and institutions are on the threshold of major advances in their capacity to acquire, assimilate, utilize, reflect on and share knowledge." Read this paper, or better, share it! By Donald N. Norris, Jon Mason, Robby Robson, Paul Lefrere and Geoff Collier, EDUCAUSE Review, September, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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