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Making the community the curriculum | Dave Cormier
By Jon Dron 30 August 2017 @ 7:48pmdavecormier.pressbooks.com - The always wonderful Dave Cormier is writing a book (open, of course) about rhizomatic learning and, as you might expect given Dave's eclectic and rich range of skills (from uber-tech-guru to uber-learning-guru) not to mention his cutting edge...- By Mark A. McCutcheon February 10, 2014 - 9:31pmThe Main Thing Students in Literary Studies Need to Understand: “Talk About the Writing” http:/
/ wp.me/ poR4A-GR - By Terry Anderson March 3, 2014 - 2:23pmJust noticed, the Landing just had its 6'000 user sign up. Getting critical mass???
Why so many questions?
By Jon Dron May 28, 2015 - 9:59pm Comments (6)At Athabasca University, our proposed multi-million dollar investment in a student relationship management system, perhaps ironically dubbed the 'student success centre' (SSC), is causing quite a stir among faculty and tutors at the moment. Though...Super-private social network launched to take on Facebook with support of Anonymous
By Jon Dron 18 June 2015 @ 11:10am Comments (2)www.independent.co.uk - The first question that emerges for a free, encrypted, ad-free, unsurveilled, intentionally private, celebrating anonymity, social networking site and mobile app like this is 'How does it make enough money to support itself'? The answer appears to...PCjs: The Original IBM PC in Your Browser
By Jon Dron 23 November 2015 @ 4:02pm Comments (2)Posted to group: COMP 266http://www.pcjs.org/ - This is one of the most remarkable uses of in-browser JavaScript I have ever seen. It is an IBM PC emulator, and it really works. Actually, I think it is a fair bit faster than my first (mid-80s) PC and it certainly looks a lot better on my modern...VQR » What Is the Business of Literature?
By Jon Dron 23 March 2013 @ 11:43am Comments (1)www.vqronline.org - A fantastic article by Richard Nash ostensibly on how books and associated technologies have evolved and may continue to evolve, but really a meditation on the nature of culture, technology and society. The punchline is that the business of...Policy on Adoption of Open Source Software for Government of India
By Colin Elliott 30 March 2015 @ 3:35pm Comments (1)Posted to group: Open Source Softwaredeity.gov.in - "The Indian government announced a policy yesterday that makes it mandatory to use open-source software in building apps and services, in an effort to 'ensure efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs.'" ...
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