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Open Learning Network vs Informal Learning Environment

E-Learning Provocateur

Mott’s blueprint is the Open Learning Network (OLN). Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). These components work in tandem with the LMS and system reports, which in turn comprise the core components of the Formal Learning Environment (FLE). We can have both.&#. Amen to that.

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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

An API (Application Program Interface) enables an interface from a piece of software to communicate with another piece of software (in its simplest form) or multiple pieces of software (called a mashup). Search for restaurants in Google and Google Maps shows up with the various restaurants on the map. Mashups Possibilities.

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PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning

Tony Karrer

His requirements for a PLE Framework include: Personalization Social features Social filtering I ncorporate various Web 2.0 concepts and technologies (mashups, widgets, aggregation, OpenID, RSS, etc.) The concept of a Personal Learning Environment Framework gets it even farther from some actual system.

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Don't miss the train!

Learning with e's

I'm just about to hop on a train and make my way up to Milton Keynes for the first time, where tomorrow I'm an external examiner for one of the Open University 's PhD candidates. The chapter traces how students represent the structure of their personal learning environments, and their distributed potential. becomes Web 3.0.

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Aha Moments in 2007

Tony Karrer

Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups Wow, what a great list from 2006, I'm glad I have that saved somewhere. ;) So how about in here's a random list of things from 2007: My 10 year old son edited Wikipedia - A Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update and added value. We know something pretty special is happening right now.

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

The January special issue of Interactive Learning Environments is out right now. This inevitably sets new requirements in multimedia-enhanced learning environments for the advanced representation and creation of learning metadata. This is nicely facilitated by Social Web technologies (e.g. techniques (e.g.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

In this activity, each of the students took individual responsibility to seek out, evaluate and then post useful websites and online learning resources that were deemed indispensable to the group. These were posted up onto the group wiki, and a short summary attached by the ‘gold miner’ to explain what it contained and why it would be useful.

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