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Making meaning of complexity and change through metaphor
H800 wk23 a Activity 2 Stepping over the edge ‘A key characteristic of these new technologies is “learning by doing” – users need to be immersed in and “play with” the affordances that these new...
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Tutor as host – its your party and your responsibility to make it work
This from Mary Thorpe (2009) If face-to-face is the answer, how do you replicate the combination of informal and formal discourse opportunities that characterise the face-to-face campus. (Crook and...
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Sage on the stage or guide on the side? Where is e-learning taking us?...
Sage on the Stage or Guide on the side? I don’t like the idea that somehow technology is diminishing the value of the educator by implying that they have gone from, and may be demoted to a ‘sage on...
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On the personalisation of e-learning
Repeatedly I have been talking to people about Stumbleupon, Zite and My Mercedes as examples of personalisation. There is evidence to suggest value in “vicarious interaction,” in which non-active...
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What makes an e-learning forum tick?
What makes an e-learning forum tick? This is the crux of social learning for me, what John Seely Brown calls ‘learning at the periphery’ or Cox calls ‘vicarious’ learning and I have dubbed ‘learning...
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A test for anyone who is about to speak in public is when the technology...
Themes trend, this week it is ‘curation’ which is why I drove 168 miles to a get–together of e–learning like minds in Bath. Some contrast to the webinar I sat through the same morning and somewhat...
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Blogging breached the guidelines a bunch of us followed in 2002 – now...
Fig. 1 Blogging brings like minds together – through their fingertips I did a search in my own blog knowing that somewhere I cited an academic who described blogging as ‘whatever you can do on...
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