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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 ...

From: George Roberts - Read more

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

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 ...

From: Josie Fraser - Read more

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 ...

From: George Roberts - Read more

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 09, 2008

ALT-J Special Issue on Mobile and Contextual Learning

November 09, 2008

ALT-J have a call out for a special issue on mobile and contextual learning which will be relevant to some Emerge projects as we near the BR and dissemination phases. See ...

From: Rhona Sharpe - Read more

MOOCs, Connectivism, Humpty Dumpty and more

November 09, 2008

Last weeks Emerging Mondays seminar was on the topic of MOOCs and Open Course Models. The speaker was Dave Cormier from the University of Prince Edward Island. Dave spoke about his experiences, so far, of the CCK MOOC on Connectivism and Connected Knowledge, the technological platforms being used to support participants, the tensions that exist within the course ...

From: Graham Attwell - Read more

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 ...

From: Cristina Costa - Read more

Herding cats

November 08, 2008

I was recently challenged with running a series of events inside Second Life for the JISC Innovating eLearning Conference. These were carefully paced to include a couple of orientation sessions for new avatars, a tour and an evening social event (a ‘fashion show’ as it turned out). For me, I was surprised to find that the biggest challenge ...

From: Steven Warburton - Read more

JISC Emerge terms and conditions and privacy policies amended

November 08, 2008

We have made minor amendments to the JISC Emerge terms and conditions and privacy policies. These are minor changes to take account of the recent benefits realisation activity and to make the Creative Commons License to and by JISC Emerge ...

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