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December 01, 2008
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 17, 2008
Bloomsbury Survey Results
November 17, 2008
We, the APT ASTAIRS team, circulated the Bloomsbury Survey of Web Use around the 6 Bloomsbury Colleges (RVC, LIDC, BBK, SoP, BBK and SOAS), to gain a better understanding of how our users were using technologies to help with learning and teaching. We received over 1000 responses from a variety of users of all age groups and roles.So for ...
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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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November 15, 2008
Altered State online blended conference 27, 28 November
November 15, 2008
We are moving into the final phases of the U&I programme. This is our last online conference. Don't miss it! "Altered States" 27, 28 November 2008. What has changed: in your practice; in your project; in your institution; in your community?And a blended bonus: In conjunction with the outputs surgery being run by Lawrie and Alice Gugan, we are ...
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November 14, 2008
Emerging Debate: Actor Networks and Connectivism
November 14, 2008
Frances Bell posted to Emerge noting the similarity between Actor Network Theory and Connectivism. I replied, "snap" because I, too (and many others: I claim no primacy), had noticed this. Frances' full post, "Is Connectivism a Learning Network" is here. I have replied to her and posted a discussion on Actor Network Theory. I fear we may be doing ...
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November 08, 2008
Reporting about the 1st Trainers in Europe online Conference
November 08, 2008
The last two days I have been taking part of the 1st Network Trainers in Europe open online conference.This was a conference opened to everyone, but we knew that our main target audience would be people whose familiarity with technology was not as quite advanced as in the groups and communities some of us move about. Most of them ...
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