I am suggesting that there are sets of affinities that encourage people and their friends, firms, institutions, communities, governments and enterprises to act in certain ways. Blackboard provided a means towards control of the curriculum should someone want to. The patent application was, possibly, late dot-com chutzpah. Its subsequent deployment strikes me as strategic and in line with neoconservative affinities. Evidently, today in the deep winter of 2025.
Category: Learning technology practice
Learning designs, templates, workflows and procedures for integrating social softwares (e.g. Elgg, Confluence, OSP and other learning and collaboration tools), and repositories into Brookes Virtual; support for expanded Learning Technologists Forum
Beginning of term
Systems or people? We can model learning in order to develop ways for our machines to acquire, store, process and apply data: information gathered from the world around. Although I put it as a vague question of preference at the start of this essay, it has many ramifications. Are people not just quite complex systems? … Continue reading Beginning of term
Informal e-Learning: Ishkur’s guide to electronic music
I just stumbled across what has to be among the best bits of informal e-learning ever: Ishkur's guide to electronic music. Link, load and enjoy.
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
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