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Friday’s reads
Christopher Dawson argues that Second Life is “dead in ed” — time drain, bandwidth requirements, and proliferation of adult content make it a poor choice when compared to BlackBoard snd Moodle.
Bill Thompson points out that most of us have become dependent on using computers to perform our day-to-day activities. Understanding how computers work should not be left to a small geek minority.
Shikha Dalmia argues that Obama is turning it’s back on principle in order to pay off the teacher’s unions and kill school vouchers in D.C.
Terry Anderson summarizes a new open-access m-learning book, Issues in Distance Education.
John K. Waters summarizes the issues about the future of Java and MySQL under Oracle.
StevenB’s post on the ACRLog advising writers to focus on critics who seriously question ideas.
David Munger summarizes recent research that shows the context in which we make moral decisions matters quite a lot.
Being More Specific About Openness in Learning
Terry Anderson, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University writes on his blog, the Virtual Canuck that there are many dimensions of openness. He says:
Since these criteria of openness have important implications in many dimensions for both learner and teachers, I tend to use adjectives like distance, unpaced, free cost and other adjectives, rather than ones associated only with the media of delivery.
Blog Post: On Open, distance, e-learning and other name confusion