Feb

8

Lecture capture and participatory media for education: a talk for eL@B

February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I suppose there comes a tolerance of living with a degree of chaos. Knowledge is quite loosely coupled, I find.The page I showed with the links came originally from a talk I did at the November eLearning at Brookes (eL@B) meeting on Participatory Media for teaching in Higher Education. The link to the slightly updated [...]

Oct

19

US Government Cloud Computing strategy; where is the UK in this respect? #ssbr

October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Federal Government will transform its Information Technology Infrastructure by virtualizing data centers, consolidating data centers and operations, and ultimately adopting a cloud-computing business model.
via govcloud.ulitzer.com
This article reports a Booz Allen Hamilton report on the cost model being used to drive US Govt data policies towards the adoption of “cloud computing” platforms. They offer three [...]

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

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 [...]

Jul

10

@eframework technical model: a key enabler of open education dialogue? #jiscssbr

July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

e-framework.org
The eFramework people have published their technical model here: http://www.e-framework.org/Resources/TechnicalModel/tabid/1008/Default.aspx The model depends on continuing feedback from the community. Their aim is to develop “… a common approach to the description of service-oriented design and analysis,” and provide “… a neutral means to articulate the design of software services” in order “…to assist international education [...]

Jun

21

Thoughts on Internationalising the home student conference 19/06/09

June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I attended the opening plenary of the CICIN conference to hear John Raftery, ProVC for Student Experience and Douglas Bourne, head of the Development Education Centre at IoE, London.

Jun

19

@morageyrie draws my attention to Higher Education Academy: EvidenceNet

June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

EvidenceNet – which is to be a new repository for evidence in support of good teaching and learning practice, including resources, events and “networks” (in other words you can search EvidenceNet to find groups and organisations of interest).
via sheensharing.wordpress.com
Thanks to Sarah Currier for drawing my attention to Evidence net. This is to be a focused [...]

Jun

17

@Downes calls attention to MIT Tops List of College Copyright Violators

June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

If we represented truly the worst-case scenario, then copyright infringement can’t be a really big problem, because we don’t have that much
via chronicle.com
I think the lesson here is that fair use practice in education has to lead legislation, not be driven by it. MIT has led the OER movement. As a pioneer and as a [...]

Jun

5

Another reason to drop EndNote? EndNote sues Zotero & loses @Downes

June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A Virginia Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit this morning against George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media.
Thomson Reuters Inc. had sued the university in a Virginia court in September for at least $10-million in damages, claiming that Zotero, a free software tool created by the university, made improper use of the company’s [...]

May

30

I am daily impressed at what an excellent reference manager Zotero is

May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/) deserves a much longer pean than I am going to give it here. A web-native application, it knocks the spots off EndNote. It is developed by researchers for researchers at the Center for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) at George Mason University and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute of [...]

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