At the OU Teaching and Learning Conference I was fascinated by a talk on SocialLearn by Simon Buckingham Shum. SocialLearn is the Open University’s social learning solution that is currently being developed. It aims to be a social learning space which can integrate existing tools in the OU and the
Twitter really can take up your whole day! It’s a whole continuing professional education all by itself, if you follow the right people and follow up on links to blogs and websites that people point out. So if you want to have a life as well as reading Twitter (let
Sometimes it’s useful to compare your understanding of a term with the generally accepted definitions. Over time, too, words and phrases change their meanings or acquire new ones. Within different sectors of education, the same term can be understood differently. Here are some useful lists of techniques, definitions and terms
Moodle is well-known as a virtual learning environment in schools, colleges and universities. What is perhaps less well-known is that Moodle can also be used as an online learning space within a corporate environment, yet even those who use it may not recognise it, as it’s often hidden as part
It’s amazing how much continuing professional development you can do for free. The web has always been a great place for sharing knowledge and expertise, and there are new ways to do this appearing all the time. It’s almost always the case that someone will have written a blog post
Donald Schön (1983) suggested that the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of continuous learning was one of the defining characteristics of professional practice. He commented on the “Technical Rationality” type of model of professional training — which involves “charging students up” with knowledge
Can you help me compile the ultimate list of resources for using blogs in learning and teaching? A while ago I did a bit of a bibliography on the use of wikis in learning and teaching [Blog post August 2007]. Together with some practical action research with the use of
Marshall Sponder wrote on Social Media Today about his 7 predictions for social media in 2010. One of his predictions was about the explosive growth in social media training. Competition in the Social Media training and enablement space is going to get fierce and Red Hot – as everyone wants
I had quite a busy week of webinars last week, running a successful webinar on E-portfolios for the ELESIG community at elesig.ning.com. I also attended two fascinating webinars, one on bidding for European funding from the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network and one on Digitisation at the British Library, from the
How does one approach the introduction of major change in a much loved web institution? For over 12 years now I’ve run a children’s writing website, Kids on the Net, and for a variety of reasons I’m contemplating some changes – to bring it right up to date and keep