Archive for: July 2005

July 27, 2005

Pelican learning

Filed under: Reflections - 27 Jul 2005

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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’ …

July 26, 2005

Cliff Richard

Filed under: Frippery - 26 Jul 2005

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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 …

July 19, 2005

Does the proliferation of open source hold back software development?

Filed under: Reflections - 19 Jul 2005

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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 …

July 9, 2005

An online learning scenario for HE?

Filed under: Conceptualisations - 09 Jul 2005

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 …

July 3, 2005

Brill Live8 leraning object

Filed under: Reviews - 03 Jul 2005

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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 …

July 1, 2005

e-Portfolio thoughts

Filed under: Reflections - 01 Jul 2005

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) …