Category Archives: Educational Development

Much retweeted abt retweeting; an emergent etiquette? apophenia: Understanding retweeting on Twitter

21 June 2009 – 12:26 pm

The purpose of this paper is simple. We wanted to explore retweeting as a conversational practice. In doing so, we highlight just how bloody messy retweeting is. Often, folks who are deeply embedded in the culture think that there are uniform syntax conventions, that everyone knows what they’re doing and agrees on how to do [...]

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Thoughts on Internationalising the home student conference 19/06/09

21 June 2009 – 11:17 am

I attended the opening plenary of the CICIN conference to hear John Raftery, ProVC for Student Experience and Douglas Bourne, head of the Development Education Centre at IoE, London.

*John Raftery* opens the conference, quoting Sen asking us to resist the ideas that we have a single identity and that we “discover” our identity. He illustrates [...]

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@morageyrie draws my attention to Higher Education Academy: EvidenceNet

19 June 2009 – 6:23 am

EvidenceNet – which is to be a new repository for evidence in support of good teaching and learning practice, including resources, events and “networks” (in other words you can search EvidenceNet to find groups and organisations of interest).
via sheensharing.wordpress.com
Thanks to Sarah Currier for drawing my attention to Evidence net. This is to be a focused [...]

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@Downes calls attention to MIT Tops List of College Copyright Violators

17 June 2009 – 9:55 pm

If we represented truly the worst-case scenario, then copyright infringement can’t be a really big problem, because we don’t have that much
via chronicle.com
I think the lesson here is that fair use practice in education has to lead legislation, not be driven by it. MIT has led the OER movement. As a pioneer and as a [...]

By george | Also posted in R&D Projects, Theory, copyright, ipr, oer, open, open educational resources | Tagged | Comments Off

Is the book dead? Well, yes and no: Booking the future | open Democracy News Analysis

15 June 2009 – 9:12 pm

Is the book dead? Can the Six Sisters of publishing rescue books? Will publishers find a new profit model? Can bookstores survive the internet? Can writers make a living? What about e-books? Is Kindle the beginning and end of the revolution? Will Google Books be literature’s savior or executioner? Where does Scribd.com fit in?
via opendemocracy.net
A [...]

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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 Create, Emerge, Learning Technology, R&D Projects, SL, Second Life, Theory, VR, eL@B, muve, virtual reality, virtual worlds | Tagged | Comments Off

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 Create, 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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