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George Siemens has a online presentation intended to introduce key concepts for a presentation he is giving at Online Educa....more...
What is online teaching? asks...more...
A discussion on a mailing list indicates that government legislation may be a barrier to the Web 2.0 idea of making everything open. In someway related to, or tied up with the issue of privacy etc....more...
There are no new ideas....more...
Jeremy Geelan has a post about "Social Computing": Oxymoron - or the biggest new thing since the web itself?....more...
A long and interesting post from Dion Hinchcliffe about a bunch of Web 2.0 stuff....more...
A post that looks at how/if the adoption of Web 2.0/eLearning will occur. Will they or won't they?...more...
Must take a closer look at this. A video from Stephen Downes explaining the difference between groups and networks. Has some strong resonances with some of my vague thoughts about group work....more...
Obviously asking the students is an important task. Here's a list of applications considered useful for college students. Includes a long list of comments....more...
A 2005 article outlining 6 main themes in designing a web 2.0 site...more...
Another piece of evidence about the problems of making all (or even most) University teaching content free is this piece about DRM being one of the top requests from Universities for the next version of Apple's iTune U...more...
Terry Anderson has a post that points to a meme about "The people formerly known as students and teachers"....more...
Many people can't see the benefits of making content freely available....more...
Background Problem...more...
Making the rounds of the blogosphere, or at least the little part I'm currently following, is an Enterprise Web 2.0 blog - "examining leadership and people issues raised by next-generation of web technologies"....more...
Webfuse has always been based on the premise of open content, where ever possible....more...
Bryan Alexander's March/April 2006 EDUCAUSE Review article on Web 2.0. Much good stuff, a good summary....more...
Derek Morrison raises the spectre of organisational response to the idea of Web 2.0 course websites. In part, this looks like the challenge of losing control facing IT support divisions and management....more...
A post from Simon Fraser University talks about use of Google Calendar with some PHP code to manage calendars and bookings....more...
The Web 2.0 Course Site idea has many flaws, hurdles or counter arguments....more...
A nice quote to support the approach taken with BAM and to some extent Webfuse...more...
Have had a report from one of the students...more...
I'm becoming interested in the notion of Web 2.0 course sites as the next step in the evolutionary development of Webfuse....more...