e-Learning Forum 16 November 2006

These are my rough notes of the first eLearning Forum meeting of 2006-07. We ranged across a number of issues, on and off the agenda. Intro The meeting was initially characterised by the difficulty of getting the in-room technology to work: Internet connection was slow and data projector wouldn't display multiple windows. But that's the … Continue reading e-Learning Forum 16 November 2006

Testing ecto settings

I use Ecto, an off-line blogging editor and archiving tool. Very handy for mobile and nomadic blogging at conferences, on the train, anywhere cannot connect to the Internet or do not want to be burning up the battery maintaining a wireless connection. It also keeps an archive of my posts on my machine, which I … Continue reading Testing ecto settings

Draft project plan

I have uploaded our draft plan here. This was the topic of a discussion with Terry Mayes, about which more shortly.

Interesting question: the requirements for a learning platform

I offer this as a component of an evaluation framework: what are the user requirements for different kinds of users of a VLE. A professional acquaintance from another university is advising his department on the procurement of a learning platform. He asked me a simple question last night: "...is there a web site or paper … Continue reading Interesting question: the requirements for a learning platform

Why WordPress?

I have been using TypePad for blogs and will continue to do so. The Brookes Benchmarking blog is TypePad-driven. So is myWORLD. TypePad is owned by 6 Apart, who also have LiveJournal. LJ was the first of the "friends" networks and developed a lot of social software, which is open source, as well as a … Continue reading Why WordPress?

Areas of work

The main areas of work for our Pathfinding project are: Infrastructures Learning Technology Practices Evaluation activities Staff and educational development programmes Infrastructures Identification of appropriate softwares and platforms including the repository architecture for research outputs, learning objects, and personal and professional development portfolio items elaboration of the service matrix workflows and procedures for identity management, … Continue reading Areas of work

First internal outputs

We are beginning to get the word out across the University that something is happening. Presentations have been made to the Learning and Teaching Committee (53K Word .doc uploaded here) and pieces have appeared in Teaching News and OnStream (OnStream is intranet only, so clipped 117K .pdf post is here).

Brookes e-Learning Pathfinding

Finally, setting up a blog for Pathfinding. I have uploaded our Pathfinder proposal to a JISCmail filestore here.