Notes: E-learning 2.0
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Downes, S. (2005). E-learning 2.0 . eLearn Magazine. pp. 1-6 In a nutshell, what was happening was that the Web was shifting from being a medium, in which information was transmitted and consumed, into being a platform, in which content was created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along. An.. .. read more..
Notes: Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Mott, J. (2010). Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network . EDUCAUSE Quarterly. 33 (1) pp. 1-9 It's a really good article, framing some ideas around an Open Learning Network. Definitely worth a read. Much of it isn't a good fit for what I'm looking for because it's tied tightly to th.. .. read more..
Notes: New Horizons: A personal cyberinfrastructure
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Cambpell, G. (2009). New Horizons: A personal cyberinfrastructure . EDUCAUSE review. 44 (5) pp. 58-59. The article is intended to be used as a manifesto for institutional change, rather than a research-based paper. Some of it is a bit hyped, but the foundation is sound. In building that personal cy.. .. read more..
Notes: Personal Space: The behavioral basis of design
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Sommer, R. (1969). Personal Space: The behavioral basis of design. Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs. We are told that classrooms should have straight rows of chairs so that the children will face the teacher, prisoners should be kept in separate jail cells, college students should have roommates, an.. .. read more..
Ontario universities to adopt e-learning
Friday, March 19, 2010
It's a blast from 1999: Ontario will be adopting e-learning, a new and untried technology with much promise but great risk! That is the basic tenor of this gee-whiz article by CBC complete with the obligatory sceptic there to close it out: "If I had a brain surgeon who took his degree online, I pro.. .. read more..
The Pad – Trends, drivers and a scenario from 1998
Friday, March 19, 2010
Dave Cormier and George Siemens are mounting a course on the future of technology and education. This will result in great fun here later on, but for now what we have - as Dave prepares to travel to Singapore next week to deliver the first version of it - is this post and discussion of one of my pr.. .. read more..
Browser-Based IDEs (programming environments)
Friday, March 19, 2010
Integrated development environments (IDEs) have been around for a while, but browser based IDEs has the promise of making them a lot more widely accessible. "These are websites where you can edit code, run your application, and sometimes even instantly share your application for others to try. This.. .. read more..
Steal It and Other Internal YouTube Emails from Viacom's Copyright Suit
Friday, March 19, 2010
Now that information is becoming public we're seeing a nasty fight between Google and Viacom over YouTube. In a nutshell, Viacom is saying that Google is practicing piracy on a massive scale, while Google is responding that requiring it to police user-uploaded content as it comes in would destroy t.. .. read more..
You Have to Break Connections to Get Your Ideas to Spread
Friday, March 19, 2010
While there is no doubt that connections break as well as form, there is something wrong here. Part of it, no doubt, resonates from the unstated assumption that ownership (of, say, a car) constitutes a connection. This leaves me uneasy. Another part of it is that the author confuses mass-media mark.. .. read more..
Our iPhone for Moodle web application aks for your feedback
Friday, March 19, 2010
Moodle developers who have released a prototype iPhone app for the LMS are looking for feedback. Also worth noting in this post is the description of the five steps involved in the development of the product. Inge de Waard, Ignatia, March 19, 2010 [Tags: none] [ Link ] [ Comment ] .. read more..
The iPad and the LMS
Friday, March 19, 2010
In a breathless endorsement of the iPad for learning Joshua Kim looks at how LMSs will adapt. The take-off point is Blackboard's purchase of TerriblyClever, an e-learning app company, for the surprisingly low price of $4 million. "I'm betting that we will quickly see amazing LMS apps for the iPad,".. .. read more..
Notes: Social software and participatory learning: Pedagogical choices with tech..
Friday, March 19, 2010
McLoughlin, C. & Lee, M. (2007). Social software and participatory learning: Pedagogical choices with technology affordances in the Web 2.0 era . ICT: Providing choices for learners and learning. Proceedings ascilite Singapore 2007 Somewhat breathless about the Web 2.0 hype. Social software to.. .. read more..
Notes: Social software for life-long learning
Friday, March 19, 2010
Klamma, R., Chatti, M., Duval, E., & Hummel, H. (2007). Social software for life-long learning . Educational Technology & Society (2007) vol. 10 (3) pp. 72-83 Abstract: Life-long learning is a key issue for our knowledge society. With social software systems new heterogeneous kinds of tec.. .. read more..
Notes: Personal Learning Environments-the future of eLearning?
Friday, March 19, 2010
Attwell, G. (2007). Personal Learning Environments-the future of eLearning? . E-Learning Papers. vol. 2 (1) The idea of a Personal Learning Environment recognises that learning is continuing and seeks to provide tools to support that learning. It also recognises the role of the individual in organi.. .. read more..
Notes: Personal digital libraries: Creating individual spaces for innovation
Friday, March 19, 2010
Borgman, C. (2003). Personal digital libraries: Creating individual spaces for innovation . NSF Workshop on Post-Digital Libraries Initiative Directions (2003) This is an article about the design of digital libraries to support innovation, but has some implications as it discusses monolithic vs. in.. .. read more..