Hi,
I missed much of the thread yesterday, as I was at U. Laval in Quebec
City for a conference on Pedagogic applications of IT. I was expected
to talk on "How shall we learn tomorrow?" I talked about XML, P2P, the
need for new OSes, and learning objects (thanks to David Wiley for
planting this seed ;-)
Mentionning Napster, I explained the problem that Computer & telecom
services face day to day, but urged them "not to throw the baby with
the bath water", because students are exploring important new
communications systems. Then, with such examples as OpenCola, Groove
and a few other nice apps, I explored the working and imagined the
advantages of P2P applications for learning and teaching, if we accept
that education is now entering a new transactional paradigm.
The 105 professors who were attending were very interested in P2P
applications, "Bellheads versus netheads" architectures and the whole
convergence of CS and Telecom. They understood readily that
innovation, freedom and learning is greater when intelligence is at
the edges of the network, whether we think in terms of a liberal or
vocational education. P2P was new to many of them, but now they will
pay attention, they said.
BTW, The Menard-Isenberg study is also at :
http://www.tmdenton.com/netheads3.htm
and RISQ is Quebec's Higher Education & Research Network.
Cheers,
Christian
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