Category Archives: open content

UGC or not to UGC?

Posted on November 15, 2010 by

What is the future for learning resource production?  Up until recently media resource production demanded specialised skills both technical and in learning design. However a number of factors have changed which have led to the increasing ‘democratisation’ of resource production … Continue reading →

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Building Innovation: learning with technologies

Posted on April 12, 2010 by

Kathryn Moyles Building Innovation is another example of some provocative issue papers already emerging this year. The paper explores national and international policy priorities for building students’ innovation capabilities through information and communication technologies (ICT) in Australian schools. Importantly it … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, education, eLearning, Informal learning, Leadership, open content, Opensource, policy, schooling, Web2 | 5 Comments

NewTube

Posted on June 28, 2009 by

YouTube is finally available to DET NSW teachers- after years of frustration beating on doors. Access will of course allow teachers to plan, research, display and embed YT videos in their resources, within their working context . One giant step…for … Continue reading →

Posted in digital natives, eLearning, innovation, open content | 1 Comment

Open wide come inside

Posted on November 13, 2008 by

The Open movement is undoubtedly one of the most significant-yet misrepresented philosophies to underpin C21 education. Promises abound in terms of the open revolution, but is it just another education experiment? The 2008 publication Open Content, and Open Knowledge (MIT press), is … Continue reading →

Posted in education, open content, Opensource | 2 Comments

Static Learning Objects?

Posted on June 10, 2008 by

Paul Reids piece  (Digital Chalkies) taking a swipe at LO implemenations such as TLF, has sparked a running debate. The comments represent ‘where are we at’ X section of opinion on the worth of LOs (and associated implementation) and what constitutes … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentries, education, eLearning, Learning Design, Learning objects, open content, Social networking, Web2 | 1 Comment

Tools of the trade

Posted on June 2, 2008 by

New breed of Web 2 learning tools are appearing such as XTimeline (thanks Chris O’Neal). These I’d call conceptual mapping tools- rather than cognitive tools.  Xtimeline is a collaborative widget for creating, sharing & ranking timelines. I’d be interested in what … Continue reading →

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BECTA rejects Office 07

Posted on May 15, 2008 by

Yesterday Becta sent a formal complaint to the European Union against Microsoft- claiming their products do not suport open standards. BECTA says that Office 2007′s underlying format, known as Office Open XML, is not interoperable with software from other vendors.  … Continue reading →

Posted in open content, Opensource, policy, schooling, standards | 2 Comments

CoPs

Posted on September 23, 2007 by

Graham Attwell’s post on a chaired presentation to the Alt C conference in Nottingham on International CoPs, included this excerpt by George Roberts- “Communities of practice are emergent organisations with tacit but clearly identifiable rules and other signs of identity: … Continue reading →

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Embedding Web 2

Posted on September 20, 2007 by

Workshop discussion last week with UK ICT in education policy experts, Owen Lynch, Tom McMullan and Jimmy Stewart and from Edu.au. Greg Black and Garry Putlin . Many trends were reinforced through the discussion: Increased use of Mobile learning devices … Continue reading →

Posted in education, Interactive whiteboards, literacies, open content, policy, schooling, Social networking, Web2 | 1 Comment

Digital literacy in a knowledge economy

Posted on September 11, 2007 by

Essay on the ABC website (thanks Ian) by John Hartley, is a good encapsualtion of the argument for fostering real critical literacies to create open innovation networks. Although schools and universities certainly teach “ICT skills” and even “creative practice”, so … Continue reading →

Posted in creativity, digital natives, education, innovation, knowledge, literacies, open content, schooling, Social networking, Web2 | 4 Comments

Superficial scholarship

Posted on September 10, 2007 by

Reading a recent article by Karl Kruszelniski on ‘How many words for snow do eskimos know’- resonated with thoughts on what constitutes academic scholarship. It  also highlights that we are better to have ‘open’ online knowledge environments to expose the myths, rather than … Continue reading →

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Open access

Posted on July 20, 2007 by

Mike Seyfangs dump on his frustrations reporting on the CEGSA conference in South Australia, brings home the frustrations we are all experiencing regards the limitations of network access in education systems. Ironically Gerry Whites presentation (below) at the conference was … Continue reading →

Posted in access, open content, Opensource, schooling, Social networking, Web2 | 1 Comment

Cult of the arrogant

Posted on June 19, 2007 by

Couldn’t help also adding a link to this running disussion from Britannica Blog by Michael Gorman defending ‘authoritative’ publishing. Stirred 31 responses so far to his post-(welcome to the wonders of Web2 Michael) -No wonder with lines like- “The flight … Continue reading →

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Web 2-authority Vs ‘collective authority’

Posted on June 14, 2007 by

At risk of adding more layers of comment (but hey thats knowledge creation )-worth citing Tony Karrer on Will Richardsons post – Web 2.0 as “Cultural and Intellectual Catastrophe” The basic issue of experts vs. collective intelligence . Tony states … Continue reading →

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Open source content

Posted on May 3, 2007 by

Some increasing commentaries on this. Jerry’s Work Blog has a a nice post of comments including: how open content movement is lagging a few years behind Opensource movement. e books are not selling Interesting study – assumption that kids in … Continue reading →

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