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PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community

Posted January 7, 2006 by Jon Dron

All about one of the earliest learning environments, predating the Web by decades
Created:Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:05:32 GMT


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Posted: January 7, 2006, 7:05 am

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fac.etio.us

Posted January 7, 2006 by Jon Dron

Takes de.icio.us tags and turns them into a faceted classfication scheme
Created:Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:26:17 GMT


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Posted: January 7, 2006, 2:26 am

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flickr graph – marcos weskamp

Posted December 30, 2005 by Jon Dron

Social networks of Flickr contributors, graphically displayed using their images
Created:Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:37:24 GMT


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Posted: December 30, 2005, 3:37 am

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VLE – Survey

Posted December 29, 2005 by Jon Dron

Fascinating in depth longitudinal survey of VLE use in HE institutions in the UK.
Created:Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:47:03 GMT


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Posted: December 29, 2005, 4:47 pm

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Bodington.org :: Home

Posted December 29, 2005 by Jon Dron

A neat and popular virtual learning environment. Open source.
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Friendster

Posted December 29, 2005 by Jon Dron

Early and still successful commercial instance of social software, for finding friends and dates
Created:Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:32:40 GMT


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Posted: December 29, 2005, 8:32 am

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eLearn Magazine: Education and Technology in Perspective

Posted December 20, 2005 by Jon Dron

Excellent high quality online journal/news magazine
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Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags

Posted December 6, 2005 by Jon Dron

Typically brilliant article on wicked problems with top-down approaches to metadata, and the power of wide-scale taggingand folksonomies
Created:Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:17:59 GMT


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Posted: December 6, 2005, 7:17 pm

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Connexions – Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities

Posted November 27, 2005 by Jon Dron

A site for sharing courses and content
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eduCommons home

Posted November 27, 2005 by Jon Dron

eduCommons is not exactly a virtual learning environment, more a container/translator for OpenCoursware, though it has many features that match commercial VLEs. Based on Plone.
Created:Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:40:55 GMT


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Photo of hard copies of How Education Works
A decade of unwriting: the life history of "How Education Works"
▶ How Education Works, the audio book: now with beats
Paper: Cognitive Santa Claus Machines and the Tacit Curriculum
Published in JODDE – Learning: A technological perspective
Just a metatool? Some thoughts why generative AIs are not tools
Video and slides from my webinar, How to Be an Educational Technology: An Entangled Perspective on Teaching
Slides from my ICEEL ’24 Keynote: “No Teacher Left Behind: Surviving Transformation”
How AI works for education: an interview with me for AACE Review
Slides from my SITE keynote, 2024: The Intertwingled Teacher
Educational ends and means: McNamara’s Fallacy and the coming robot apocalypse (presentation for TAMK)
A conversation about generative AI with David Webster
▶ I got air: interview with Terry Greene
evolving into a robot
Recording and slides from my ESET 2023 keynote: Artificial humanity and human artificiality
10 minute chats on Generative AI – a great series, now including an interview with me
Published in Digital – The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity: Implications for Education
Technology, Teaching, and the Many Distances of Distance Learning | Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning
On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning | OTESSA Journal
Learning, Technology, and Technique | Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology
Educational technology: what it is and how it works | AI & Society
Informal Learning in Digital Contexts | Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education
Pedagogical Paradigms in Open and Distance Education | Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education

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