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, [...]

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 [...]

Apr

22

Developing the SSBR Platform

April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It has been a fraught three days working on the new JISC-ssbr platform. After a long time of indecision we are pushed to cement something in place and live with it. I am writing this as much to check that feeds into the various blog components work.

Jan

8

Immersive interfaces for learning

January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Another very useful Berkman talk on Immersive Interfaces by Chris Dede, Timothy E Wirth professor of Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  Dede develops a typology of immersive interfaces and illustrates their application in US middle schools. Even more usefully he presents a simple analytical framework for discussing immersive environments for learning: [...]

Jan

8

JISC Support, Synthesis & Benefits Realisation plan agreed

January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Milestones and all that: JISC programme managers, today, agreed the Institutional Innovation Programme, Support, Synthesis and Benefits Realisation Project plan. Hurrah!

Jan

6

Epigenetic phenomena

January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Thanks and a(nother) tippo to A J Cann for the link (via his soti bookmarks on delicious) to D’arcy Norman’s epigenetics and the institution. This hit me as an approach to conceptualising the relationship between individuals and institutions for a paper I am puzzling over writing, about the utility of participatory media (Web2.0/the social internet) [...]

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 [...]