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@eframework technical model: a key enabler of open education dialogue? #jiscssbr

10 July 2009 – 9:57 am

via e-framework.org
The eFramework people have published their technical model here: http://www.e-framework.org/Resources/TechnicalModel/tabid/1008/Default.aspx The model depends on continuing feedback from the community. Their aim is to develop “… a common approach to the description of service-oriented design and analysis,” and provide “… a neutral means to articulate the design of software services” in order “…to assist international [...]

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Developing the SSBR Platform

22 April 2009 – 9:09 am

It has been a fraught three days working on the new JISC-ssbr platform. After a long time of indecision we are pushed to cement something in place and live with it. I am writing this as much to check that feeds into the various blog components work.

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Immersive interfaces for learning

8 January 2009 – 9:36 pm

Another very useful Berkman talk on Immersive Interfaces by Chris Dede, Timothy E Wirth professor of Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  Dede develops a typology of immersive interfaces and illustrates their application in US middle schools. Even more usefully he presents a simple analytical framework for discussing immersive environments for learning: [...]

By george | Also posted in Educational Development, Emerge, Learning Technology, R&D Projects, SL, Second Life, Theory, VR, eL@B, muve, virtual reality, virtual worlds | Tagged | Comments Off

JISC Support, Synthesis & Benefits Realisation plan agreed

8 January 2009 – 4:06 pm

Milestones and all that: JISC programme managers, today, agreed the Institutional Innovation Programme, Support, Synthesis and Benefits Realisation Project plan. Hurrah!

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Epigenetic phenomena

6 January 2009 – 10:07 am

Thanks and a(nother) tippo to A J Cann for the link (via his soti bookmarks on delicious) to D’arcy Norman’s epigenetics and the institution. This hit me as an approach to conceptualising the relationship between individuals and institutions for a paper I am puzzling over writing, about the utility of participatory media (Web2.0/the social internet) [...]

By george | Also posted in Educational Development, Emerge, Learning Technology, R&D Projects, Theory, Web2.0, eL@B, participatory media, participatory methods, social network | Tagged | Comments Off

Personal learning environments (PLEs), please

30 December 2008 – 5:02 pm

The term PLE is going to come into its own in 2009, because of the prominence of the digital literacy/academic literacy and lifelong learning debates. There has been much discussion of PLEs over the past four or five years (yes, that long). I was led to this reflection by Graham Attwell’s post, How my Personal [...]

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