“Ed Techie” (Martin Weller) recommended a new on-line resource for educators wanting to learn about e-learning. The resource is called Onramp and it’s being published by Jennifer (Jen) Jones on her blog Jenuity.com. Although I’ve only just discovered it and have only read the introductions and “lesson” 1 of the…
I must confess to being confused about what a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is. Having just watched Graham Atwell’s new slide cast on the topic, I can agree that a PLE should be an environment that allows “accessing and searching, aggregating and scaffolding, manipulating, analysing, storing, reflecting, presenting, re-presenting and sharing.” But…
The Education Guardian today published a supplement in association with JISC called Digital Student. Discussing technology in further and higher education, it looks like it should be required reading for all in the Learning Lab community. Headline topics include Academia Tackles the Future, Second Life for Teaching? and ‘Building a…
‘What would you not want to see in any future education system?’. Through Million Futures Future Lab want to collect a broad range of views – negative as well as positive – about future education systems. These views will help to inform the Beyond Current Horizons project.Go to Million Futures…
In preparation for the up-coming new academic year, I’ve been checking out the latest versions of tools in the Zoho Office suite. As a e-learning application, the notebook application seems particularly worth a longer look. Essentially a container for web objects presented within a notebook idiom, Zoho Notebook makes it…
Blackboard inc have released some video presentations about their Project NG (Next Generation) this is the hybred product that includes the final best of breed integration of WebCT and Blackboard into a single product. The presentation is not yet complete and more will be released as it becomes available. Nor…
A minor movement in e-learning community seems is edupunk which seems to have sprung up from nowhere on a wave of anti-Blackboard fever. Tony Hirst has already started to track the meme with another of his clever RSS feed mashups. The latest contribution is the video response by Martin Weller…
As I mentioned it at this morning’s E-Learning and Cakes session, I regularly read OUseful Info. Tony Hirst’s regularly updated blog is a great source of ideas for new ways to use and mash-up Web 2.0 goodies into E-Learning resources. Tony is an E-Learning Technologist at the Open University (OU),…
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