October 10, 2008
Ian Dolphin just tweeted that "Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge" Edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar Foreword by John Seely Brown is now freely available as an e-book at ...
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October 06, 2008
To all the projects THANKS, we have a representative from each of the projects at the up coming e-framework workshop. In fact, given the popularity, we've moved to a bigger room so that all of the extra people from the projects who wanted to come can also attend. Venue: the Hatton in London () please plan to be ...
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October 01, 2008
The sounds Good project have been a little shy coming forward, but for those of you who read the Times Higher, you will have noticed that one of our own U&I Projects, Sounds Good directed by Bob Rotherham, have been nominated for an award - MANY CONGRATULATIONS more details at ...
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September 29, 2008
Following on from the recent ALT Conference, the EXTEND project team would like to invite you to participate in an online asynchronous discussion in which we will explore the Educational Digital Divide. Funded by JISC-Emerge Benefits Realisation, the discussion begins on Monday 29 September 2008, with topics and questions including:· What does the digital Divide mean to you?· Who ...
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September 25, 2008
Message from my colleague David Kreps. There is a vacancy at the University of Salford, on an EU funded Research Project, Digital Enivronment Home Energy Management System (DEHEMS). If it is not of interest to you or your colleagues, please pass it on to anyone you think it may be of interest to. ...
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September 25, 2008
Picture credit: jahdakine: Altered StatesWe’re really looking forward to Novembers Emerge online conference, Altered States: practitioners, innovation and institutions. Taking place in the week of JISC CETIS's annual conference Learning, Teaching and the Institution, Emerge's Altered States conference will explore the complex relationships between practitioners, innovation and institutions. Emerge members are invited to contribute their experiences, perspectives and ideas ...
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September 25, 2008
Not quite sure why this refers to Second Life, not more broadly IVW or MUVE but ....CFP - Higher Education in Second Life HIGHER EDUCATION IN SECOND LIFE (Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, North Carolina) Editors, Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York; and Jan Kingsley, Training & Development Consultant Final date for initial submissions: November ...
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September 25, 2008
Photo credit: Invasion by Henryleelucas Dave White's recent post, Not 'Natives' or 'Immigrants' but 'Visitors' & 'Resident' slipped by largely without comment, which is a huge shame and one I'm happy to try and remedy a little here. It's a must-read post because it does what a lot of people have been trying to do ...
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September 24, 2008
The open conference season is open and we started the bestway. Scott WIson shared very interesting perspectives on PLEs with us and our audience joined in with equal enthusiasm. Above all it was a great debate of ideas, where everyone had a chance to share their perspectives. And this is what EVOLVE aims at: an open discussion by and ...
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September 17, 2008
After the summer, it’s time to start warming-up with new discussions. The Open Seminar Sessions @ EVOLVE are back! This Month is about PLEs. Hopefully a lot of food for thought here!! This month our guest speaker is Scott Wilson from CETIS UK, who will share some thoughts about Personal Learning Environments The idea of ...
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