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December 01, 2008
Planet and the Semantic Web
December 01, 2008
I had a meeting with Tony Linde (U&I Semantic Web) and Vania Dimitrova / Lydia Lau (AWESOME project - Leeds Uni) today where Tony looked at how the semantic web might be applied to JISC projects. With regard to Planet Tony suggested that there were opportunities to apply semantic Web approaches, particularly when we seek ...
VLE Debate: Where's the debate?
December 01, 2008
At the Altered States conference (28 November 2008), Emerge hosted a debate - more of a gentlemen's discussion - with Martin Dougiamas of Moodle and John Fontaine of Blackboard from the VLE makers side and Mark Stiles, Dave Cormier and Lawrie Phipps on the side of the implementers and users; Sean Mehan chaired the affair (links to recorded debate ...
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November 30, 2008
Participatory governance - the IBM perspective?
November 30, 2008
We all subordinate ourselves to, and participate in, groups. These may be states or other institutions at various scales: families, workplaces, corporations, education. In the context of a world in which "Absolutely everything is changing all the time," at a recent Harvard Berkman centre seminar, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, (read his blog) President Emeritus of the IBM Technology Academy and visiting/adjunct ...
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November 27, 2008
Last minute dot Emerge conference
November 27, 2008
Altered States, the final Emerge online conference kicks off this morning at 0930 on an Elluminate server near you. Click on the Moodle link over there to the right (assuming you are viewing this in the Emerge Elgg site) across the microblog stream and join the conference. Last minute registrations and drop-ins welcome. See you ...
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November 24, 2008
Microblogging on the Emerge site
November 24, 2008
You will have noticed that over this past weekend a Twitter stream has been incorporated into the Emerge site. This is a trial, but I quite like it.We took a decision to try this out because a lot of U&I-related conversation was taking place on Twitter. Also, one of the U&I funded projects: M3 developed a set of "Twitter ...
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November 22, 2008
What is needed for a community to function
November 22, 2008
ELESIG is a community of researchers that started with a small group of universities, which grew out of eLearning Pathfinding. Elesig has identified a number of functions that distributed (online) group/community members need to fulfill. I adapted these from Rhona Sharpe's presentation to Brookes eL@B on 20/11/2008. The slides may be forthcoming. Online Community ...
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November 21, 2008
Kids' informal learning
November 21, 2008
The new US report at contains some interesting discussion topics IMO for projects like ours that work with young people (or child labour as Paul Bailey would call it ...
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November 19, 2008
the new pattern template is here!
November 19, 2008
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been busy with workshops all over the place: CETL ALiC in leeds, formative e-Assessment in London, Teaching and Learning Computer Science in Edinbrugh. Of these, the first two were planned as a Workshop II in the frame of our methodology. The London one pretty much followed the plan, while ...
Try once, refine once: a handy pattern from Aliy Fowler
November 19, 2008
Aliy Fowler from Kent is one of the participants in our formative e-Assessment group. She brought us a case story called String comparison in language learning. At the 2nd workshop of this group, we discussed this case, and identified a pattern, which she called Try Once, Refine Once. Aliy and her table posted the first ...
November 16, 2008
Full Fat Feeds
November 16, 2008
It's great to see so many projects syndicating their web and blog content over to the site - it means that the community can share and connect in one handy place. Some of the feeds coming over are restricted however, meaning that people have to click through to the original site to view the entire post. I'd like to ...
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