Yesterday, as I was on a lengthy drive, I was sorting out a possible connecting between Google Search, Google Books and the Semantic Web—>tied to Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity. I think my brain grew a new wrinkle but whether or not the connections I was trying to make make sense or are part of the scheme [...]
This is a post on the book by Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology….just some random thoughts that scarcely scratch the surface of this book.
The 2009 Horizons report covers six emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research or creative expressing for education. This report was produced by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Institution. Based upon information and data gathered these are the trends that NMC and Educause have identified as significant [...]
Overview of the Open e-Learning Content Observatory Services program (OLCOS) and Open Education Resources The OLCOS state aim “at building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of open educational resources, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe.” According to the report on the OLCOS, Open Educational [...]
This blog posting started as an overview on the use of Twine as a content manager for education however it evolved into something else entirely. Twine is defined as a semantic web or web 3.0 tool, given that I started a bit of web search to identify a definition of those terms.