+Ismael Peña-López interviewed by Lola Torres on the topic of Personal Learning Environments. “I understand the PLE as a set of conscious strategies to use technological tools to access the knowledge contained in objects and people and thereby achieve certain learning goals” is a good starting point for a bunch of challenging ideas on PLEs. […]
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning
Written by Peter Tittenberger and George Siemens in 2009, the “Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning” was originally a wiki that has now been deleted from the University of Manitoba website. This handbook is a great resource that is worth keeping track of, so here is a link to a rare PDF available. Handbook of […]
Lisa M Lane on the usefulness of LMS
+Lisa M Lane writes about how the LMS can be an important piece, among others. to support learning. I agree. As teachers, we tend to use what works in real-life situations, and generally that means a combination of different approaches, strategies, resources, etc. that make sense in that particular situation. Learning is messy, but so […]
Ricardo Torres’s thoughts on The PLE Conference
Ricardo Torres‘s thoughts on The PLE Conference. Very interesting to read about how it all started, it helps explain the unique nature and atmosphere of this conference. This year in Aveiro (PT) and Melbourn (AU) from 11 to 13 July. Bits & Pieces & etc: The PLE Conference I had promised to write a blogpost […]
UOC is offering a doctoral program in Education and ICT
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is offering a doctoral program in Education and ICT (e-learning). (via +Tony Bates on Twitter (@drtonybates) Excerpt: “The programme has been designed on the basis of a series of teaching and research activities (basic, themed and methodological seminars) which provide support to the doctoral candidates so that they can do […]
Steve Wheeler’s – Applying Paulo Freire’s ideas to educational blogging
+Steve Wheeler‘s interpretation of how Paulo Freire’s ideas can be applied to educational blogging. Worth reading. Blogging with Freire Well …. not exactly. Paulo Freire, that great Brazilian educational thinker died in 1997, just as the World Wide Web was emerging in the Western world. So Freire didn’t actually live to see the … This […]
Tony Bates – Designing online learning
Tony Bates offers a good summary of the key points to consider when making decisions about online learning. Designing online learning for the 21st century This being the time of year when many Canadian post-secondary institutions offer faculty development opportunities, I have been busy the last two or three weeks giving lectures at the Université […]
Advancements in open access
This is a very interesting development regarding open access and hopefully another blow in the current insane model of academic publishing. Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing § THE HARVARD LIBRARY TRANSITION To: Faculty Members in all Schools, Faculties, and Units From: The Faculty Advisory Council Date: April 17, 2012. RE: Periodical Subscriptions We […]
David Wiley on big publishers’ strategy regarding OERs
David Wiley on big publishers’ devious strategy to portray open educational resources in wrong ways to the general (uninformed) public. The Big Publishers’ Strategy on Boundless | iterating toward openness Boundless’ authoring model appears to be based on “reverse engineering” publishers’ most popular textbooks. The big publishers’ court case comes down to a single question […]
Rita Kop’s take on badges and open learning certification
Rita Kop’s near rant on badges and related trends to certify open learning (MITx, Coursera, etc.). I agree with her views and like the clear-cut way she says it :-). Here’s an excerpt: “Clearly, by awarding badges to open learning episods, for instance, you actually change them into closed courses. We already have lots and […]