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January 2008

January 03, 2008

Happy New Year

January 03, 2008

Hi all new and old members of the Users and Innovation Programme. I hope you are starting to find your way around this site and thinking how you might best use it. Me, I am one-hand typing with a new baby on my lap, half thinking about Web2.0, Social Networking and the UIDM and half wondering how to get ...

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January 25, 2008

Benefits Realisation, Phase 1

January 25, 2008

This is a very rough summary of the excellent presentations from the first round of benefits realisation activities, presented at the York programme launch. e-Volve (Graham Attwell),Innovation Networks and Communities of Practice (Jim Hensman)Librarians CoP - LCop (Paul Mayes)Virtual Design Studio (Miles Metcalfe)Personal Learning Environment - PLE (Mark van Harmelen)User Interfaces, Social Software Technologies and Learning Experience ...

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January 28, 2008

Eduserve Grants

January 28, 2008

From Ed Barker. I thought the second item looked like it was up our street.George~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Eduserv Foundation 2008 has £300,000 available for this years grants call and invites bids for research project funding in these or closely related areas of e-learning and computing:- * online identity * the open social graph * always-on Internet access and mobile computing. In ...

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Sun Immersion SIG

January 28, 2008

I seem to be passing information on, but sometimes you just have to...The Sun Immersion Special Interest Group is a Sun Microsystems Inc. sponsored community dedicated to advancing the state of open source technology and content for virtual worlds and gaming in education. It is open to institutions, commercial organizations, faculty and students interested in working with Sun in ...

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January 29, 2008

Emerge Participation and Clusters Survey

January 29, 2008

Hi all[also sent by e-mail]Further to the projects launch meeting in York we have been thinking how projects might be "clustered" to help support evaluation, operations and benefits realisation. There are, of course, many ways of looking at groups of projects. Because many projects felt the suggested clustering was not quite how they would have oriented themselves, we have ...

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