Dec

30

Personal learning environments (PLEs), please

December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The term PLE is going to come into its own in 2009, because of the prominence of the digital literacy/academic literacy and lifelong learning debates. There has been much discussion of PLEs over the past four or five years (yes, that long). I was led to this reflection by Graham Attwell’s post, How my Personal [...]

Dec

16

Education 2.0? Designing the web for teaching and learning.

December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

ESRC/EPSRC commentary (pdf) edited by Neil Selwyn, with contributions from Charles Crook (University of Nottingham), Diane Carr (London Knowledge Lab), Patrick Carmichael, (University of Cambridge) and Richard Noss (LKL/TLRP-TEL), sets out to challenge the confident portrayal of web 2.0.
We’ll see.

Dec

15

PLE Chicken Roost

December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A. J. Cann asked 200 first years, “…to draw a mind map of their personal learning environment (PLE).”  The PLE chickens come home to roost
He says, “following what these students were reading on Google Reader and bookmarking on delicious throughout the past term has been a fascinating and for the most part rewarding experience. The [...]

Dec

1

The Brookes new multimedia experience site

December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

How much does the new multimedia experience and the extract “A Mental Note” on our home page (as I write, today) map onto the Brookes we know? It is tempting to dismiss this as marketing fluff but it does say something about Brookes that the first seven images on the video are of Oxford University. [...]