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As part of a conversation on the Moodle site for the Online Connectivism Conference Stephen Downes posts the following....more...
Cole Camplese, in a blog post titled 69,000 reasons to pay attention, reflects on issues around innovation, especially with "web 2.0 like" tools, in e-learning within universities...more...
According to their website CAUDIT is described as...more...
Advanced industrial societies are currently undergoing a fundamental transformation from capital- and labour-based economies into knowledge economies (Burton-Jones 2001). In such economies knowledge, education, people and their ideas, become the key strategic resource necessary for prosperity (Duderstadt, Atkins et al. 2002). This transition to a knowledge economy is characterised by factors including globalization, increasing competition, knowledge sharing and transfer, and an information technology revolution (Zhang and Nunamaker 2003). This transition raises a number of issues for education systems, in particular how best to adapt such systems to the changes in the socio-economic landscape and provide the best educational opportunities and outcomes (Knight, Knight et al. 2006)....more...
In the traditions of open source's "release early, release often" and in an attempt to get me writing, I am going to start releasing parts of my PhD thesis. Almost certainly of limited use to others and likely to demonstrate various flaws, but hopefully the public release might generate some fixes and encourage some progress....more...
This is a collection of rough ideas about what the overall aim should be for a curriculum design group at a University. In particular, a University like Central Queensland University....more...
Dave Tosh, project manager of the elgg project, has a post suggesting that the open source model doesn't work. He should know, given his three years working on elgg....more...
Last week I gave a presentation to new academic staff at CQU, a part of their "induction" process. The presentation was titled Some possible futures of e-learning: Lessons and enablers....more...