Feb
15
Service-Oriented Frameworks for eLearning
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Stephen Downes writes about a presentation by Scott Wilson: Scott Wilson writes the kind of presentation that makes you feel like you’ve just spent an evening drinking beer with him as he effortlessly weaves through complex subjects dispelling both myths and confusion. As a case in point, his opening describing the many ways to achieve [...]
Feb
11
CiteULike: Like del.icio.us for academics
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CiteULike: A free online service to organize your academic papers: CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically [...]
Feb
11
Interact – another open source LMS(?)
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Interact is an open source project that describes itself as an LMS that might also be called a CMS or VLE: Are you frustrated by Learning Management Systems that separate online course interaction into separate web-functionality areas? Tired of having to put your discussion in the ‘discussion forum’ section of your online course – because [...]
Feb
10
Distributed engagement with courses and other units of learning
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Scott Wilson has another interesting post in his Workblog. In part he writes: From now on instead of courses I’m going to talk about shared learning contexts (SLCs). Courses are a good word to describe a lot of things in formal education, but isn’t broad enough to cover similar groups of functionality in informal settings, [...]
Feb
3
Open-Source Software – in Support of Educational Research
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Brad Johnson writes: As our use of software to support education matures our reliance on enterprise-ready software is increasing. Many educational institutions have reduced the number of software titles available in favour of larger, more stable and general titles. Content management systems such as Blackboard and WebCT have become pervasive; we often find that the [...]
Feb
2
Social Software Convergence
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Lee LeFever at Common Craft: Social Software Convergence writes: I got a couple of pointers recently to really cool diagrams showing how groups of technologies and services could be combined to create a socially based system for education, learning, etc. Check out this diagram from Scott Wilson. … Then there is this diagram of a [...]