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September 2007

September 03, 2007

Emerge talk on YouTube

September 03, 2007

I made a talking head + son et lumiere video and posted it to YouTube here. I will try to embed it in the blog, but couldn't suss that out last night. See you in Nottingham, or online ...

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September 04, 2007

Are we tinkering? Michelle Selinger at ALT-C

September 04, 2007

Michelle Selinger asks, "Do we need to do more?" More of what? She throws down yet another challenge from the corporate sector to the universities sector. Selinger calls herself an "escaped academic". She identifies 3 chasms: cultural (cultural), school/university (sectoral), formal/informal learning (personal). Having worked 15 years in the corporate sector for the energy industry, I consider my self ...

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September 05, 2007

eLearning Benchmarking, ALT-C 2007

September 05, 2007

Where are institutions going with e-learning? Terry Mayes asked the "Exocet questions" and tried to marshall answers from the panel and the floor. 1) Do sectoral enhancement agencies encourage a dependency culture? Of course they do: this is one way that people with an interest in the direction of Higher Education attempt to exert ...

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Bounded openness

September 05, 2007

Preliminary statements about our success (such as it may be) arise from sessions presented at ALT-C on International social learning networks in education, the Emerge Special Interest Group and "What gives life to our community? An appreciative inquiry-based approach for studying the emergence of a community in Web 2.0 learning applications." For a community to be successful there is ...

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September 10, 2007

Sounds of the Bazaar - podcasting model of good practice

September 10, 2007

You don't know what you don't know, and I didn't know about Graham Attwell's other projects until this weekend. Graham gets a great podcast interview in his "Sounds of the Bazaar, 11" from the Open University's Patrick MacAndrew about Open Learn here. Scroll through to 31 minutes, or, listen to the whole thing. It will reward you. ...

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September 11, 2007

Serendipity in social-network critique

September 11, 2007

Today I found two discussions interesting and possibly salutory for social networks. "danah boyd on MyFriends, MySpace", a Berkman Luncheon Series discussion podcast, and a post on Stephen Downes OL Daily, "Anatomy of a Community Meltdown". Boyd gives an excellent concise review of the history, rise and fall of a few key social network sites ...

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September 16, 2007

Global justice and the future: Web 3.0 is the mesh?

September 16, 2007

Serendipity or selection? Three podcasts from the Berkman centre peaked my interest. Danh Boyd, I mentioned here, but the other two need attention: Nicholas Negroponte gave a keynote at this year's Internet and Society conference about the history and development of the one laptop per child project (OLPC) and Ron Deibert, Associate Professor of Political Science and ...

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September 28, 2007

Sounds of the Bazaar

September 28, 2007

This month, Graham Attwell's Euro-podcast, Sounds of the Bazaar 13 (or is it 14?), in association with Online Educa features Emerge as his "website of the month", together with interviews with Stephen Downes and Seb Schmoller. Very interesting and useful collection of ideas that somehow coalesce around some key themes: de-schooled, autonomous, community learning. Consistently radical thinking from Graham ...

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