Trust in Digital Repositories provides material for managing intellectual property rights in e-learning for institutions who want to update their policies in e-learning programs. Everything someone in an institutional context would need to set up digital rights management systms in repositories of learning objects: policies, infrastructure, risk, evaluation and opportunity.
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Not Just a Pantomime
Did language evolve from manual gestures and then shift to vocal mode? Fox makes the case that the hands provide a more natural signaling system than the voice, and Armstrong and Wilcox propose that speech itself is a gestural system, which places language in the domain of cognition and biology.
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Remember This
A brain can recall almost everything, practically nothing, or something in between. If nothing else, this month’s National Geographic reaffirms the utter weirdness of human memory. Truth is indeed a memory.
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When Educational Resources Are Open
Judy Breck anticipates an open education future will let knowledge form, ideas emerge and understanding to be shared. A good summary of what open education aspires to be: a golden swamp with all sort of treasures found there in.
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Apologies All Around
Today’s tendency to make amends for the crimes of history begs the question which horrific acts deserve apologies and which ones get the other cheek? Our often unbearable history should do more than generate vacuous, egotistical apologies; it also “chastens, tempers, rigorously instructs. The more we know of it, the better.”
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Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality
Two physicists use science to point out the inconsistencies associated with the idea of ghosts, vampires and zombies depicted in Hollywood movies. Heat always moves from a hotter to colder objects. Bring out your basic science and critical thinking skills the next time Halloween apparitions seem a little too real.
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Teaching, Learning and Creating Iconic Moments
Christopher Sessums identifies the teachable moments in a series of photographs in which aged volunteers reienact scenes from iconic photographs from the last century, wearing their everyday clothes in their everyday environments. I love this. It’s both silly and subversive and reminds us of “the importance of historical events and the impact they have on our perspectives and collective/individual psyches.”
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KM: still a long road ahead
Survey respondents of a report commissioned by Attunity show that the tools and strategies we come up with to cope in the information age are inadequate. Managers spend a disproportionate amount of time digging for rather than managing information.
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Social Decision-Making: Insights from Game Theory and Neuroscience
Many of our decisions make sense only within a social environment. Sanfey shows how game theory models and neuroimaging methods help define the processes underlying social decision-making.
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Browsing is the act of engaging in a series of glimpses, each of which exposes you to objects of potential interest; depending on that interest, you may or may not examine more closely one of the objects. What’s interesting is that browsing is not a smooth scan, but rather iterative fits and starts. A worthwhile read that in fact never mentions web browsing specifically.