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...
View ArticleWhat is meant by ‘curation’ in our brave new world wide Web 2.0 way?
Fig.1. Web 2.0 is visualised in many ways, Engestrom (2007) Mycorrhizae thinks in term of fungi. Is this what curation online looks like? Part of a complex web or organism? An aspect of a new...
View ArticleHere’s a mindmap on ‘Digital Scholarship’
Fig. 1. Mindmap on Digital Scholarship Drawing on ideas from ‘The Digital Scholar’ Martin Weller, ‘Blended E-learning’ Chris Pegler and my own OU and e-learning blogs.
View ArticleIs it a good idea to base an e-learning module on a book?
Fig. 1. The Digital Scholar Martin Weller’s Digital Scholar becomes the basis for H818 – The Networked Practitioner This new e-learning module from the Open University uses Martin Weller’s book The...
View ArticleWho would you invite to an e-learning dinner party?
Fig.1. The dining room at Appleby Castle, Cumbria I posed this challenge to an e-learning group on LinkedIn: ‘If you could invited anyone in the world to a dinner party who would it be?’ I could run...
View ArticleCould blogging be seen as a scholarly activity?
This are me thoughts from reading: An empirically grounded framework to guide blogging for digital scholarship Heap & Minocha (2012), Fig.1. Digital Scholarship with a nod to Martin Weller‘s book...
View ArticleWould you know a digital scholar if you met one? Are we there yet?
Martin Weller, in ‘The Digital Scholar’ looks forward to the time when there will be such people – a decade hence. I suggested, in a review of his book in Amazon, that ’10 months’ was more likely...
View ArticleMartin Weller and the MOOCers
I love learning. I can’t get enough of it. E-learning and e-books are my favourite mix. I blog between once and six times a day – perhaps more, sometimes less. A year every day became boring after...
View ArticleOpenness in Education WK1 MOOC
Openness in Education Get comfortable with the technology Look around Set up a blog if you don’t have one and use the Blog Aggregator with #H817open tag There are badges in Cloudworks if you like this...
View Article‘If you’re not lost and confused in a MOOC you are probably doing something...
Photo credit: Robin Good ‘MOOCs indicate that we are seeing a complexification of wishes and needs’ – so we need a multispectrum view of what universities do in society. George Siemens, (18:51 25th...
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