Aug

26

Sustaining support

August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Further to the last post, Sustaining Communities, the tension in higher education is between: open educational dialogue and institutional pragmatics.
Open educational dialogue is concerned with networks or communities for information sharing, which take a user-centred approach to learning and design for learning on all scales. These networks make use of user-generated content for learning resources, [...]

Aug

25

Sustaining Communities @GrahamAttwell

August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

That is the ‘unofficial’ stuff. Now on to the official things – papers, symposia and the like. I have tried to develop a series of linked papers / contributions for these events (I am not sure whether it will work) around the themes of Web 2.0, digital identities and Personal Learning Environments.  For the first [...]

Aug

25

New lecturer’s work blog

August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There is a tradition of keeping “work blogs”. Scott Wilson’s workblog is a touchstone for this kind of online identity and presence. Scott writes a lot on identity and presence and education (and here and here). This is written in my workblog. I feed stuff into here from my Posterous account. I use Posterous to [...]

Aug

25

55 out of 193 countries (28%) account for 97% global GDP and 99% IT expenditure

August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

…according to:
Franda, Marcus (2001), Governing the Internet: the emergence of an international regime. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO, USA p 206
Posted via email from George’s posterous

Aug

24

I was asked to comment on difference between education, training, learning

August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I used to be concerned in this direction when making a transition from working in industrial training and development education to working in educational development roles in higher education.
All categorisations of this sort serve to channel people and institutions into differently funded and privileged regimes. There are no essentials of this sort. Conceptual categories are [...]

Aug

21

how HESA normalises black, mixed and other ethnic group graduates to reduce their impact by a quarter! http://bit.ly/gsVwv

August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Or, at least that is one possible reading of this following example from HESA’s Guidelines for the use of the DLHE Longitudinal Survey Dataset.
To illustrate how this is done:Black, mixed and other ethnic group graduates accounted for 21.9% of the selected Sample A.
From the initial census it is known that these graduates represent just 4.9% [...]

Aug

17

A response to Leigh Blackall: The New Colonialism in OER

August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In many respects, OER and the Creative Commons licenses help propel US centered ideas of copyright and intellectual property, indirectly inserting such ideas on the back of moral concepts such as sharing, freedom and openness, as though sharing, freedom and openness didn’t exist before, and that the only way to protect such notions is with [...]

Aug

16

Defining “Creepy Treehouse” #pcthe

August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In the field of educational technology a creepy treehouse is an institutionally controlled technology/tool that emulates or mimics pre-existing technologies or tools that may already be in use by the learners, or by learners’ peer groups. Though such systems may be seen as innovative or problem-solving to the institution, they may repulse some users who [...]

Aug

15

Josie Fraser (@josiefraser) on 3 ways to characterise online identity

August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There are three main ways we can characterise most peoples online internet and mobile activity and presence. Let me state up front that these distinctions are purposely blunt, but do act as effective and critical distinctions, especially when talking to people about how and why they can manage their online identities.
via fraser.typepad.com
Josie Fraser characterises these [...]

Aug

14

Preliminary Thoughts on Visualising #opened09 #jiscssbr

August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment

via ouseful.wordpress.com
This was written about visualising the opened09 Open Education conference. But it is more widely useful as an exploration of the affordances of visualisation generally as an aid to understanding. In the Institutional innovation programme I am trying to understand the basic questions underlying visualisation of the programme: people, projects, technologies, themes [...]

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