Control and Constraint in E-Learning:Choosing When to CHoose

The publisher’s site for the book. Read it! Buy it! Tell your friends! Tell strangers in the street!
It’s about lots of things, especially why social software is a better idea than traditional forms, at least partly because it lets learners choose the level of control that is good for them.
Created:Wed, 02 May 2007 15:37:02 GMT


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Posted: May 2, 2007, 9:37 am

The social technography of Web 2.0

Fascinating article giving a breakdown of the different ways people use Web 2.0 technologies. It seems a much higher percentage than previously thought are actually contributing something.
Mac users are *far* more likely to contribute something than Dell users, but this is not very surprising given the relative percentages of people who get the machines for personal use as opposed to business use.On the other hand, the fact that these technologies have not penetrated most businesses to such a great extent seems a big loss to those businesses.
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Posted: May 2, 2007, 9:30 am

Australian Flexible Learning Framework – Research and Policy Advice

A rather superficial report that skims the area of social software for e-learning, identifying the stuff that appears in more popular blogs but not really telling us much more than a couple of hours’ surfing could provide. Having said that, it does summarise those two hours quite well.
Created:Wed, 02 May 2007 06:32:45 GMT


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Posted: May 2, 2007, 12:32 am

Next generation environments will provide \’rich opportunities for learning\’ : JISC

Amazing that Blackboard somehow managed to find their way into a Web 2.0 conference, apparently defending Web 1.0 and their shoddy and archaic approach to learner-centricity (by which they mean what most of us would recognise as teacher-centricity).
Created:Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:37:24 GMT


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Posted: April 30, 2007, 7:37 am