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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
I had not heard of games of this genre before, but they are pretty exciting and I must thank Ulises Mejias for my first introduction to this medium. There are many definitions including the one here where ARGs are contrasted with serious games.
Apparently, the first such “ game ” dates back to 1996!
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Ulises Mejias writes a very thought-provoking post Disassembled Spaces . He makes the point that if we are not able to ensure that a substantial part of our social and cultural production over the Internet is controlled openly rather than by a handful of private corporations, should we begin “unthinking the network”? He explores many dimensions of the concept in his post The tyranny of nodes .
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Monday, January 25, 2010
For those interested in operating systems for education, such as the OLPC Sugar project, you must check eyeOS out. The OS is completely browser-based and built on open source technologies. Apart from being painless to administer, it has amazing possibilities for the classroom. From their
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
I thought I would take a stab at defining what connectivist metrics could include. Having read in Stephen’s post, Connectivist Dynamics in Communities , that connectivist networks produce connective knowledge and that four elements (autonomy, diversity, open-ness and interactivity & connectedness) distinguish a knowledge-generating network from a mere set of connected elements, I thought it would make sense to start here.
The metrics that are typically being suggested are metrics such as page views,
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
Lev Vygotsky, a Soviet developmental psychologist (1896-1934), also known as the founder of cultural historical psychology, believed that our learning depends heavily on the social and cultural context within which we exist and the role of interpersonal communication. Theories such as cognitive apprenticeship, activity theory, situated learning and distributed cognition have been reportedly influenced by Vygotsky’s thinking.
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
I recently read a report compiled by eLearning Network from their Next Generation Learning Management Event held in September, 2009. It is an interesting report.
Personalization of content is a base expectation with an element of learner’s control or choice over what she wants to learn coupled with added intelligence from the system to provide relevant content.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
In case you didn’t know, 3 Idiots is now a record-breaking Hindi movie, that explores and exposes the educational system. As of the time of this post, it has been released worldwide and is the highest grosser in Indian cinema history (about US$68mn in 19 days and also made 43 million pounds worldwide to date).
The movie is based in a “traditional” academic setting in an engineering college, reputed for its excellence and for its no-holds-barred-excellence-is-the-most-important
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
It’s again the new year and time to review some of the predictions I had made for 2008 and 2009.
From my 2008 predictions:
PLEs will be sharable - tools shall arrive on the web that shall allow entire learning experiences to be sliced and shared between users. This shall be followed by ratings on which PLE slices are great.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The last time you bought groceries, did you take a shopping list with you?
What What about when you moved house or packed for a trip or holiday; did you use a checklist?
These questions came to mind for three reasons. One was because we’ve just created a set of checklists for e-moderators.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Dan Bliton of Booz Allen Hamilton asked Tony and Karl to present a webinar entitled "Enterprise Learning and Collaboration in 3D Virtual Worlds." The presentation promises to be a lot of fun. Here are the supporting resources. Slides Here are the slides
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
After being “a friend” and lurking for a while, i became a full (paying) member of the CP Square (CP2) community. CP Square is a community of practice about communities of practice.
Ever since i started my studies in HRD i’m interested in social forms of learning, communities of practice are one of them.
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Friday, August 1, 2008
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Monday, April 28, 2008
My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share. No particular order to these. 1. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Continuing on from my first post on Google Wave: “What is Google Wave?” 8221; I’ve been finding and reading (and printing, sorry trees) a fair bit of information.
I I can’t keep my mind ordered enough to remember where I’m putting it all, so I’ll put links and choice quotes below;
The
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Although, according to Gartner's Hype Cycle , Twitter is about to enter the "Trough of Disillusionment", many educators are still trying to come to grips with it, and in particular its use in the classroom. 0160; Here are 10 resources that specifically look at the educational use of Twitter:
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