The mind boggles. Blackboard has filed a US patent (and is filing elsewhere in the world) that claims they invented the VLE – courses available on a computer network remotely, the roles of administrator, instructor and student, announcements, course info, online forums, chat and whiteboards. How serious is this? It
Couple of excellent elearning blog sitesCreating passionate usersand Internet time blog
“blog” is short for “weblog” or “web log”It was originally a way for people to document the interesting sites they found on the web, so they were originally just a list of links with some description.Then the metajournalling craze caught on and blogs became something more interesting – not just
I am particularly interested in blog memes, or prompts for writing, that can be used to support learning in a learner’s reflective journal. I am currently piloting an Online Facilitation and Tutoring course that uses blog memes in this way. The Learning Blog is intended to capture: * reflections on
A portal for students or teachers in Higher Education interested in international collaboration online.The CABWEB portal hosts the HELP (Higher Education Learning Professionals) Network and the Student Network and provides free spaces for collaborative activities.This CABWEB portal was developed from the Collaboration Across Borders project funded by the EU under
Designing educational technologies with usersA handbook from NESTA FuturelabBy Keri Facer and Ben Williamsonhttp://www.nestafuturelab.org/research/findings/handbooks/02_01.htm“In recent years there has been increasing concern about the apparent estrangement of developers of digital educational resources from those who are intended to use these resources – children, teachers or lecturers. The recent DfES E-Learning Strategy
An interesting new online story … Inanimate Alice – How Did I Get Here?Episode 1: China The first episode of ‘How Did I Get Here?’ appears on the website of Sensory Perspective ( http://www.sensoryperspective.com ), the developer of the Electrosmog Detector which spotlights the potentially harmful pollution resulting from wireless
More on using blogs for learning “How to use weblogs to create engaging learning experiences” by Maish Nichani This article is part of a 4 wonderful resource from the Australian Flexible Learning Community
A BBC article suggesting English lessons should learn from multimedia (“Schools should take advantage of the range of texts now available to teach the language, including online”) at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4337784.stm led me to a QCA report “A curriculum for the future: subjects consider the challenge” which can be downloaded at http://www.qca.org.uk/14303.html
This is focused on the K12 (school-level) age group, but has useful information for anyone using blogs in learning. It is relevant to more uses than just at school level. Using blogs for learning