Stephen Powell, thoughts mostly about learning

The Jisc Effective Practice With e-Learning (good practice in designing for learning guide) makes for an interesting read. It is an attempt to distill down the findings from research into e-learning since 2003 when the Jisc e-Learning and Pedagogy research strand began.
The document seeks to provide a framework for colleagues to “reflect upon the [...]

I have been talking to Jonathan Furness about how to migrate to a different domain name and retain Google juice. Jonathan’s advice is pretty straight forward and the key points he makes are:
it will take time for the new domain to be given a Google ranking
maintain the old URL setting all of the pages [...]

I have been reflecting about the online learning community projects I have been involved in over the past 5 years or so to try and identify some patterns. From my experience I could identify several features that initiatives display to greater or lesser extents. No criticism is attached to anyone group, this is [...]

I listened to a presentation by Dr Pak Yoong using stories fro his past to illustrate his take on communities of practice. Some of what Pak said I could readily agree with when he talked about learning ‘having’ to take place when we step outside of our comfort zone. In Pak’s view [...]

First impressions from reading the forward and executive summary of the e-learning strategy (called Harnessing Technology Transforming Learning and Children’s Services) is that it felt to me like a document that everyone could take some comfort from. But perhaps as a result of this I couldn’t say that it made me confident that [...]

I have just read the HEFCE strategy for e-learning document published this week. Nothing particularly stunning in it, but it could be seen as a strong endorsement of the Ultraversity model that we are working on at Ultralab/APU. The document spans a 10 year timeframe and is designed to inform Universities action planning [...]

For the workshop, previous blog, we started off using SubEthaEdit for a warm up brainstorm. It worked a treat yet again, both from the point of view of an ice breaker and at getting people to work collaboratively generating a shared document.
We then used the quote below to start a discussion as it [...]

I am taking a workshop with a colleague (Anne Trewern) on Tuesday with the title “Emerging trends in online learning communities - challenges of learner centred approaches to lifelong learning.” and have been thinking what we will cover.
I am certain that need to draw out the difference between formal from non-formal learning communities [...]