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 … Continue reading Personal learning environments (PLEs), please
Education 2.0? Designing the web for teaching and learning.
ESRC/EPSRC commentary (pdf) edited by Neil Selwyn, with contributions from Charles Crook (University of Nottingham), Diane Carr (London Knowledge Lab), Patrick Carmichael, (University of Cambridge) and Richard Noss (LKL/TLRP-TEL), sets out to challenge the confident portrayal of web 2.0. We'll see.
PLE Chicken Roost
A. J. Cann asked 200 first years, "...to draw a mind map of their personal learning environment (PLE)." The PLE chickens come home to roost He says, "following what these students were reading on Google Reader and bookmarking on delicious throughout the past term has been a fascinating and for the most part rewarding experience. … Continue reading PLE Chicken Roost
The Brookes new multimedia experience site
How much does the new multimedia experience and the extract "A Mental Note" on our home page (as I write, today) map onto the Brookes we know? It is tempting to dismiss this as marketing fluff but it does say something about Brookes that the first seven images on the video are of Oxford University. … Continue reading The Brookes new multimedia experience site
Participatory and hierarchic governance
We all subordinate ourselves to, and participate in, groups. These may be states or other institutions at various scales: families, workplaces, corporations, education. In the context of a world in which "Absolutely everything is changing all the time," at a recent Harvard Berkman centre seminar, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, (read his blog) President Emeritus of the IBM … Continue reading Participatory and hierarchic governance
A theory for our time?
Like politicians, do we get the theories we deserve? The Ur text of connectivism is George Siemens (2005) "Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age." Siemens is a good speaker and has clearly spent a long time thinking about elearning. He gave a good keynote at the Emerge April 08 conference, "Technology and Community … Continue reading A theory for our time?
Is Connectivism an Actor Network? Yes, of course
Frances Bell asks "CCK08 Is Connectivism a Learning Network?. She critiques the connectivism community/network/group of people who regularly use that term in their writing about education, in connectivist terms ("in their own terms"). The main argument is that "Protagonists have shown their ability to connect between fields of their own choosing, but less willingness to … Continue reading Is Connectivism an Actor Network? Yes, of course
Evaluating blogs and reflection
The assessment or evaluation of critical reflective writing is problematic. Some take it as too personal and subjective and therefore do not presume to judge others' reflection. On the other hand, in some disciplines reflection is formally incorporated as an assessed component. I came across two sets of criteria for the assessment of students' blog … Continue reading Evaluating blogs and reflection
The first post
Just a quick one to get going. More soon as this becomes my main professional blogging site.
Notes from Centre for eLearning (C4eL) Meeting of 30 November 2006
These notes go some way towards an interim report for Thursday 7 December. present: Stuart Brown, Jan Haines, Richard Francis, Greg Benfield, George Roberts apols: Rhona Sharpe, John Lidgey Agenda: 1 Pathfinder Progress 2 Planning Meetings of 7 December 3 Other discussion 1.0 Pathfinder progress Discussion focussed on the Plan, submitted on 27 October paper … Continue reading Notes from Centre for eLearning (C4eL) Meeting of 30 November 2006
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