I had the pleasure of attending a recent meeting (and dinner) of the advisory board for the ReVica project and wanted to share some of the work and results of […]
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Social software applications in formal education.
Can the Crowd Teach?
About a year ago Jon Dron and I completed a chapter for the 2009 Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies edited by Stylianos Hatzipanagos, & Steven […]
Blog Implementation Model in Higher educ...
I was pleased to read a recent article that creates a framework for use and adoption of blogs in higher education.The article is Kerawalla, L., Minocha, S., Kirkup, G., & […]
Social Networking Chapter
Following Stephen Downe’s lead, I post below the draft chapter that I was asked to produce for the forthcoming STRIDE handbook for The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). See […]
Open Learning in Groups, Networks and Co...
Last month I did a keynote at MATI in Montreal and later Raymond Cantin phoned me and recorded a podcast where I talk about the main points of that presentation. […]
My place or yours? Hosting Web 2.0 Educa...
I much enjoyed the sessions at the second Canada Moodlemoot last week in my home town of Edmonton. Many of the sessions and all the keynotes (including my own) were […]
Edublogers as a Network of Practice
I’ve been familiar with Wenger’s ideas of Community of Practice (CoP) for a decade and find the concept relevant, interesting and of practical value when I think about ways in […]
Marking with Voice tools
I have nearly completed this term’s paper and report marking using Adobe Acrobat to add voice comments and annotations. In a word, the results are terrific!! First, it saved me […]
Even with Information glut, we need Open...
What Brian Lamb seems to confuse in this entry about the Open Education Resources, universities and information scarcity argument is that information (or more accurately a surfeit of data) available […]
Canada/ Brazil Distance International Ed...
I’m sitting in the Rio airport one leg down and three to go on my way home from the Canadian-Brazil International Seminar on Distance Education, just concluded in Goianas. The […]