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December 01, 2008

Emerge in Berlin

December 01, 2008

This week is the annnual Online Educa Berlin conference, which brings togther some 2000 delegates from all over the world to discuss all that is new in Technology Enhabced Learning.And Emerge will be well represented at the conference. Amonst others, Emerge members Dai Griffith, Geroge Roberts, Neil Witt, Steven Warburton, Gilly Salmon and Steve Wheeler are all making presentations ...

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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 25, 2008

Maggie goes into the Dragons Den - the podcast

November 25, 2008

Here it is - the podcast of the live radio show. On Monday we broke new ground with Eneging our Sounds of the Bazaar radio show. We produced a special issue of Emerging Sound of the Bazaar entitled 'Into the Dragons Den'. The programme was a fly on the wall special following the progress of a Dragons ...

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November 24, 2008

Sounds of the Bazaar Radio - Into the Dragons Den - tonight - tell us what you think

November 24, 2008

Tonight we broadcast a Sounds of the Bazaar Special radio show 'Into the Dragons Den'. The programme is a fly on the wall special following the progress of a Dragons Den session organised by Emerge. The show goes out at 19.00 UK time, 20.00 Central European Time as the kick off for the Emerge online conference on Altered ...

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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 20, 2008

Sounds of the Bazaar Radio show - Into the Dragons Den

November 20, 2008

Next Monday we break new ground with our Sounds of the Bazaar radio show. We are producing a special issue of Emerging Sound of the Bazaar entitled 'Into the Dragons Den'. The programme is a fly on the wall special following the progress of a Dragons Den session organised by Emerge. The show goes out at 19.00 UK ...

From: Graham Attwell - Read more

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