Stephen Powell, thoughts mostly about learning

Matthew Pittinsky – CEO Blackboard Inc. (and founder)

A thoughtful presentation from someone who I assumed I would disagree with from start to finish. Philosophically, Matthew firmly pinned himself to the social constructivist tree espousing a strong belief in a social model of learning. In fact he is currently studying for a Doing a [...]

A really interesting presentation by a couple of guys (Rick McGeer and Mark McCahill) on open source software they have built called Croquet that can trace its lineage back to HyperCard. The guys explained how HyperCard was killed off because of commercial pressures and that was one of the reasons they were [...]

I have just returned from the e-Agenda Summit with a mind full of interesting stuff. I will be posting over the next few days but an interesting observation was that despite the e-Learning being the focus of the summit there was little or no support for me, the e-Learner! That is [...]