Stephen Powell, thoughts mostly about learning

I have been reflecting on the differences between professional learning and professional development and what this means in a professional learning community, an immerging e-Pedagogy, and the characteristics of an individual that ‘learning organisations’ will increasingly value.
Professional development can be characterised as a ‘disempowering’ model of learning that takes the responsibility away from the learner [...]

Just noticed when talking to Jed (he pointed it out) that when I am playing music on iTunes and logged into iChat then after my name on the buddy list is the title of the song and name of the artist that I am listening to (assuming that your iTunes has this information in your [...]

I have been thinking about this question, but have no evidence on which to base my supposition that the growth in open source software initiatives may be holding back software development. Two large and really succesful OSS initiatives are Linux and Apache and they have been around for quite some time with a loyal [...]

The software choices faced by the Ultraversity project have vexed Jonathan Furness and myself for a considerable time now, and the diagram above illustrates where our current thinking is. The main points to grasp is that we will be adopting a web services approach using open source software (OSS) and other free [...]

Brill Live8 BBC learning object.
Amazing value, a totally free learning objects like the one from the link above from the BBC that could be at the heart of a whole programme of learning. Resources with this kind of information used to be quickly outdated because they were bound into a book. With [...]

Over the past few weeks I have met and talked with many people about e-Portfolio and the main points I have learned are:
- very few if any institutions have demonstrated the possibility of data transfer
- institutions (and perhaps the standards) should focus on hard data, like names, ages, qualifications, etc.
- although the standards are now [...]