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June 2007

June 03, 2007

Single sign-on is coming

June 03, 2007

Hi allI am hearing some concern about the number of sites being used for Emerge, and yes there are several and the number is growing. As a VLE is a collection of tools, bundled (discussion, content delivery, calendar, editing) so our community development environment is a collection of tools: social networking, knowledge construction and information dissemination. We are working ...

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June 07, 2007

Online Activity Days: Big Thank you

June 07, 2007

This is a big thank you to all the people who organised, spoke at and in all ways participated in the Online Activity Days. It was hugely stimulating for me and this is a bit too close for a reflective comment except to say, the Moodle site will stay live and accessible. It will be slightly repurposed to be ...

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June 10, 2007

The art of (users and ) innovation

June 10, 2007

Following on from Seb's post I read the cover story of this week's edition of my favourite neoliberal tafsir, the Economist, Lessons from Apple. The authors derive four rules of innovation:Network innovation: innovation comes from without as well as within: i.e. not-invented-here can be good, or borrow/steal from the best?Design around the needs of the user: pursue simplicity; ease ...

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June 17, 2007

Blended learning?

June 17, 2007

This is more of an essay than I intended! Further to Nicola's "defining the e" and the discussion that followed, Rhona Sharpe led a review of Blended Learning for the HE Academy. I contributed part of the literature review. The political argument was largely submerged in the final paper. I rehearse it here. And in the SlideShare Whatever it ...

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June 24, 2007

It's a big world out there

June 24, 2007

The three broad stages of the Emerge project are:Stage 1: Community formation: March – July ‘07Stage 2: Project development: July – September ‘07Transition: October ’07 – December ‘07Stage 3: Project support: ~ December ’07 – March ‘09But, the process of community formation never stops. Although I have identified it as a stage, we cannot think that “we have formed ...

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