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George Siemens writing in the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning concludes: A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application. When knowledge, however, is needed, but not known, the ability to plug into sources to meet the requirements becomes a vital skill. As knowledge [...]

James Farmer at incorporated subversion picks up on Scott Wilson’s piece on the future of the VLE and writes: Take, for example, a typical tertiary student. In any one semester they may well be enrolled in four units each with an online presence each lasting effectively 13-14 weeks… now if each unit has a community [...]

Peter Sefton comments on some of the material I have been reading lately: I think that one of the pressures on current LMSs will be from the aggregator. An aggregator is a leveling technology that can pull all the stuff in which you are interested into a common interface; sort of a do it yourself [...]

Jon Udell at Jon’s Radio quotes Adam Bosworth: The cool thing about RSS, as people are discovering, as people like Bloglines are showing, as people like Feedster show when you can do a query and syndicate the query into Bloglines, is that the blocks start to be able to plug into each other because pretty [...]

Weblogg-ed reports on an article from the Wall Street Journal: In today’s Wall Street Journal, reporter Kevin Delaney asks the question and answers it with blogs, wikis, RSS and the like. Pioneering teachers are getting their classes to post writing assignments online so other students can easily read and critique them. They’re letting kids practice [...]

From Scott Wilson’s Workblog: I think the VLE of the future is going to be less like an information portal, and more like an aggregator. its going to be more like an editing and publishing tool and less like a browser. Its going to break out of the browser window and sit on the desktop. [...]

Graham Blacker at Bath concludes in Auricle about a trial of Moodle: Shows some promise. We have experienced a very helpful rapid responses from the support community. We need now to consider how the system could cope with big numbers of registrations and enrolments. Document management appears weak but perhaps no weaker than other such [...]

By Ruth Reynard in eLearning Dialogue: The use of Internet technology to facilitate interaction, communication, and collaboration is well documented but its use in establishing and developing ‘personal voice’ as part of learning is also now being addressed through the use of blogs. Finding personal voice as a pedagogical method is important to establish learner [...]

Weblogg-ed reports briefly on an interesting application of the read/write web in the UK. The site will support creation of pages and links without specific knowledge of programming or design and will allow content to be added direct from a mobile phone. Blogs, wikis and other tools will be used as part of the project [...]

From the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Dianne Chambers of University of Melbourne writes: The ‘Melbourne Model’ for supporting online students that is proposed recommends that institutions should put support procedures in place for each of these stages so that prospective and current online students have high quality experiences that are characterised by easy [...]

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