Tag Archives: social networking

Athabasca Landing

Terry Anderson is currently visiting us here in IET and he just gave a brief presentation on the ‘Athabasca Landing’, which is the virtual learning environment and social network that supports their students. These are my notes from the session… Continue reading

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Live blogging #opened12

I’ve set up a Cloudworks cloudscape for http://openedconference.org/ at Open Education: Beyond Content (http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2437).  Feel free to follow events as they unfold there, join the discussion and help to archive conference!

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OER and Collective Intelligence

Here is a copy of the slides from the presentation given at OpenOpen earlier today by myself and Anna De Liddo. The title of the talk was “Building and Communicating Evidence of Effectiveness in OER through Collective Intelligence” and relates … Continue reading

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Visualizing Digital Scholarship

These are the slides I’ll be using for my presentation at Visual Learning – Development, Discovery and Design at the Visual Learning Lab, Budapest University of Technology and Economics later this week… assuming, that is, that I will be able … Continue reading

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Three interesting Calls for Papers

Good calls for papers are kind of like buses:  they tend to show up in groups.  Three caught my eye this week… here’s hoping that I can find the time to get around to all of them! 1. Critique, Democracy, … Continue reading

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I lost my Open Ed virginity

I was fortunate enough to attend the annual Open Ed conference last week, and there was much food for thought.  I live-blogged as many of the sessions as I could in Cloudworks and there’s a video archive of the presentations … Continue reading

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Downfall Parody: Digital Humanities

Somewhat ironically, embedding has been disabled! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREJV–VHSw

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Debating Digital Scholarship

I’ve just finished my public debate with Martin Weller on Digital Scholarship. The motion was as follows: “This house believes that, in the next decade, digital scholarship (in open journals, blogs, and social media) will achieve the same status in … Continue reading

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A Facebook guru’s thoughts on social networking

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” Hammerbacher says. “That sucks.” via This Tech Bubble Is Different – BusinessWeek.

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