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Have just spent the first day here in Austin, Texas, seeing the city by night and by day, and preparing for the first real day of the IMS Global Learning Impact Summit which begins in the morning. I'm here with Remo, one of the eXe developers, to present eXe to the Learning Impact Awards judges tomorrow. With such a great line-up of finalists it will be interesting to see what the outcome will be - but I'm confident that we can at least use the opportunity to demonstrate just what eXe can do, and the extent to which it can demonstrate compliance with the international interoperability standards such as SCORM 2 and Common Cartridge. Our three key messages for the presentation will be:

• eXe is an easy to use desktop application
  
• With it you can build pedagogically sound education resources
  
• It allows you to export what you've created in standard packaging formats.

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It's been a very full-on time at the Digital Summit 2.0 over the past two days - here are some random thoughts from my notes taken during the addresses from just some of the speakers who captured my attention...

Sean McDougall, founder of Stakeholder Design in the UK, spoke to us via high definition video conference, his theme: "Life-long learning, the danger of the classroom"
Quotes:

• the systems of the classroom haven't changed a lot since the time they were first established


• successful products create t heir own value death (from Intel senior exec.)


• shared from his experiences with Project Faraday, simple robots made of paper cups, felt pens and a small electric motor!


• The three qualities required by designers: (a)Insight, (b) Irreverence, and (c) Tenacity


• We have three options about how we choose to deal with participation in the online/web2.0 world; (a) as a visitor, (b) as a migrant, or (c) as an explorer


• "ICT should be boringly effective"

Barry Vercoe, one of the six founding professors of the MIT MediaLab spoke about "How Innovation Occurs".
Quotes:

• The future is not to predict but to design"


• Innovation comes from:

a clash of cultures




clash of disciplines




clash of ways of doing things




high tolerance of failure



• Deterrants of innovation include"

walls and buildings




funding streams




measures of success




middle level management (because they tend to be risk averse and suppress innovation)

• websites are so 'yesterday'


• sitting in your bedroom alone use to be considered anti-social, now, not being available online at any time of day is considered anti-social


• word of mouse is far more effective than word of mouth for getting your message out there!

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I've been enjoying myself at the Digital Summit in Auckland today (and again tomorrow). The programme is very dense with speakers - but a great opportunity to mix with around 500 others from across all spheres of business, government and education who are exploring what it means for NZ to participate in a digital future. The programme today included talks by several politicians and representatives of the various telecommunications companies. This was followed by a video conference with Chris Anderson, editor in chief for "Wired" magazine, and author of "The Long Tail". We also heard from a group of "gen-Y" entrepreneurs, and from Sam Morgan, founder and CEO of TradeMe. There were several others - some of whom I think I'll blog about separately.

What is really interesting to see was the extent to which the conference organisers have pushed to have the technology integrated into how the conference operates. At every table in the venue there is a laptop connected wirelessly to a messaging system that provides a digital 'back-channel' for the audience to provide feedback and ask questions. These are collated as the presenter speaks, then summarised and used by the chairperson in his interactions with the speaker at the end of the session.

Also running in parallel to the physical conference itself are opportunities for those who couldn't make it to Auckland to participate. These include the Digital Strategy Blog, a DS WebCast, forums and a simultaneous conference running is Second Life - all of which is being projected on screens in the large hall where the conference is taking place.

So much to take in, so much to think about...

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Day two keynote presentation was provided by Helen Baxter, a digital age entrepreneur from Auckland. Helen's address was presented entirely using a MindMeister online mind-mapping tool, and began with an overview of her own "learning journey". From there her talk traversed a wide range of issues relating to what she refers to as Rennaisance2.0, looking at such things as Learning2.0 and Careers2.0, and considering how our education system needs to change in order to educate the "new Leonardos".

Her Mindmeister brainstorm diagram, with links to the many sites and references she gave, can be found here. Or you can explore it as it is embedded below:

On a slightly different note - in response to what Helen shared with us, I managed to sneak in a brief screening of the hilarious performance by Tripod on Youtube, which, if you haven't viewed yet, is embedded below:

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Day one of the ULearn07 conference began today in Auckland in style with 1254 delegates from all over New Zealand, 200 workshop presenters - and including 100 early childhood educators!

Ewan Mcintosh was the opening keynote speaker, and presented a fascinating talk covering a variety of aspects relating to the use of ICT in education. For me there were two things that stood out in what he spoke about. The first was the significance of audience in terms of learning and achievement and how the online technologies are providing a far greater reach in terms of audience, and the second was the potential contribution to the assessment process that many of the web2.0 technologies are enabling.

Ewan has written a bit about his thoughts from the conference, including a summary of links to information relating to his key points on his edu.blogs.com blog.

Reference to games and gaming featured quite a bit in his keynote, and Ewan shared with me the link to the recently published Consolarium website, published by the Scottish Centre for Games and Learning, a part of Learning Technologies Scotland (LTS). There are some wonderful clips in the sharing practice section of students explaining why they like games and what they believe they are learning from playing them.

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I spent the weekend preparing for my contribution to the upcoming K12Online conference which begins on 8 October. I've chosen to share some ideas about teacher-led transformational change and ICT - using examples of some of the things we've done int he New Zealand context to illustrate.

The video above is a "teaser" that I created to open up some questions that i believe we need to be contemplating - my full presentation in the conference will (hopefully) provide some indication of how we've gone about addressing these in the NZ context.

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Just back from my trip to Malaysia, this week I begin work on the final report - and in mys "spare" moments will be participating in two online events:


SCoPE online seminar - Personal Learning Environments

Derek Chirnside (from University of Canterbury) and I will be leading a three week discussion on the topic of Personal Learning Environments - referred to the tools and processes that enable us to take greater control over our learning experiences. We'll be leading discussions on how our understandings of PLEs may change the way we teach and learn.

I'm presenting the third keynote in the Time4Online conference, titled "Educators as Professional Learners" beginning this week. Will be a hard act to follow after the amazing job done by Sheryl Nassbaum-Beach (keynote one) and the student leaders who led last week's discussion - but it's a topic dear to my heart, and with the experience of working with teachers in the Malaysian context still fresh in my mind I'm looking forward to it.

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Time4Online is an online conference for educators, posing the question "How can we prepare students for the 21st Century?", aiming to explore examples of collaborative online learning and the application of Web 2.0 technologies in teaching and learning.

Presenters include educators and students from NZ and overseas (including Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, international guest and keynote speaker at the recent TUANZ tour of New Zealand).

I'm pleased to be associated with this conference, and will be presenting a session titled "Educators as Professional Learners" in which we'll be discussing the need for educators to be reflective and life-long learners, engaging in professional discourse etc. - and how technology, in particular, Web2.0 technologies, can create opportunities for this to happen.

I've prepared this introductory slide-show that I've uploaded to SlideShare:

A pre-conference preview available now at http://www.time4online.org.nz.

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This year's ODLAA conference is being held in conjunction with the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ) from 11 to 14 November 2007 at Lincoln University, New Zealand

As a member of the organising committee I thought I'd let you know what's happening...

The theme for ODLAA2007 is Open and Distance Learning in the South Pacific:Cultures - Collaborations - Cognitions - Communities

Participants are invited to present papers reflecting on the role of open and distance learning pedagogy, technologies, systems, policies and providers in

• respecting cultures,
  
• enabling collaborations,
  
• cognitions: building knowledge and managing learning, and
  
• valuing and sustaining communities

• Full papers for double blind review: (3000-4000 words);
  
• Workshops: (three hours); Abstracts only (non peer reviewed): (300-400 words).

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A collection of thoughts and notes from the final day of the ePortfolio conference in Wellington...

Evangeline Stefanakis

Evangeline gave the morning keynote(pictured above) titled Digital Portfolios as a Window into the Learner's Mind - using themes from her book of the same name. some key messages..

• we need to be thinking of a socio-cultural framework that moves awayh from the 'test' as the primary means of determining ability and achievement
  
• need to think of assessment (from French - asseyes-vous) as the act of 'sitting alongside' the learner
  
• purposes of assessment are to (a)improve student learning, and (b)improve teacher's teaching. Both require reflection
  
• need to understand just what intelligence is- and then seek to explore ways of how we can assess/evaluate/celebrate it. Reference here to Howard Gardner's definition of intelligence that involves three characteristics:
  1. the ability to solve problems
     
  2. the ability to find and create problems
     
  3. the ability to offer a product or service that is valued in at least one culture
• reference made to "Schools as Sorters" by Paul Chapman in which he reviews 100 years of testing using the Lewis Terman Intelligence testing model

A fascinating speaker - with a great deal of depth of understanding about the nature of learning, learners and the directions we need to be pursuing in terms of personalising learning.

Mark Nichols

Mark also spoke ion the morning providing an excellent backgrounder to the development of Mahara, the NZ developed open source ePortfolio tool. This sparked a lot of discussion throughout the day as delegates debated the usefulness or otherwise of such a tool, and how this might best be integrated into the 'learning landscape' of the future.

Donald Clark

Donald is CEO of REANNZ, the organisation responsible for the operation of the KAREN network, and his talk, entitled ePortfolios enabled by KAREN.

Donald referred to the visit to New Zealand in 2003 by Rita Caldwell, the then head of the National Science Foundation in the US. She challenged the NZ government at that time by pointing out that all the countries that NZ works with have an advanced network, and how do we (NZ) expect to work with them in the future without one? According to Donald, this was the catalyst for government action that has led to the establishment (nearly four years later!) of KAREN.

Donald did a pretty good job of explaining why it is that we need to focus on issues of connectivity and interoperability when thinking about individual's use of the web, suggesting that a federated view of access to existing tools may be a better option than putting our efforts into a single portfolio application.

All in all a very thought provoking conference of a 'boutique' size. Great to see a good number of delegates from the school sector there, along with the usual suspects from the academic halls of the universities.

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I'm sitting listening to Helen Barrett give the keynote presentation at the ePortfolio Conference in Wellington. An excellent overview of ePortfolios, what they are (or might be), where they are and where we might be headed with them.

Helen began her talk with reference to a picture created by Alan Devine based on the poem about the blind men who described an elephant - with each "seeing" quite a different picture depending on what part of the elephant they were in contact with. Helen's point is that people see portfolios from their own point of reference, for instance, a medical school may use portfolios to support a high stakes assessment approach, while a primary school may focus on using portfolios to demonstrate growth over time.

The part of Helen's talk that I've found particularly interesting is her linking of eportfolio concepts and the use of social networking software (Web2.0), leading to her idea of an ePortfolio "Mash-up" - loose pieces loosely joined, and her diagram (below) to describe this:

I've pondered this idea ever since Helen posted it on her blog site, and find myself increasingly drawn to it. Helen argues that the Web2.0 provides an architecture of interaction, in turn allowing for a pedagogy of interaction (ePortfolio2.0). I'm sure there's a lot further thinking that will go into this concept - but when I consider how I see so many of these web2.0 tools being used I can see exactly what Helen is talking about. In my own experience, I use a range of web2.0 tools - Flickr for photos, GoogleDocs for documents, my blog for collections of ideas etc - all of which contain the artefacts of my personal and professional life and thinking. As Helen points out - I already have my portfolio - consisting of lots of pieces, loosely joined, each residing in its own system, and not all combined within a single system.

In light of this thinking, it will be interesting to see how the release of Mahara, the NZ-developed, open source ePortfolio tool, will be received later in this conference.

Heaps more to report on what Helen is sharing with us - but for more you can find Helen's presentationonline here as a 336Kb PDF download.

Helen's blog: http://www.electronicportfolios.com/blog/index.html

Helen's website: http://www.electronicportfolios.com/

Helen and Evangeline Stefanakis will be in Christchurch on Tuesday 20 March at CORE to present a breakfast session from 7.45am and Evangeline will be running a workshop at CORE from 9.15 to midday, and another workship at the University of Canterbury in the afternoon. There are still spaces in these sessions if you're interested in participating - simply phone the CORE office - 03 3796627

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I called in on the TUANZ Bus Tour one day conference while it was in Christchurch today, and caught up with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach who is the keynote speaker on this leg of the journey. Although I only caught the tail end of the final session, it ws evident to me that the 100 or so attendees had spent the day exploring the 'new world' of Web2.0 and social software - many for the first time. There was quite a positive atmosphere - with evidence of many moving into the phase of looking for purposeful ways to incorporate these tools into their teaching and learning programmes.

It was useful then, to discover in my RSS feed tonight, a post from George Seimens announcing to the world that he and his colleagues at the Learning Technologies Centre, at the University of Manitoba, have put together a wiki of New Technologies for Teaching and Learning. George says...

If you're interested in blogs, wikis, aggregators, audio, video, flickr, web conferencing, and social book marking, these wiki pages are a good starting point. They've been put together with the intent of providing a quick overview of the technology...and basic uses in teaching/training/learning environments.

The notes are originally from a series of workshops that were run by the LTC, and each page is laid out with an overview of the session 'objectives' and a list of the page content etc. It's a great idea to see the pages presented as a wiki, as I can imagine others adding all sorts of relevant information that will see these pages develop into a really comprehensive guide.

There are a number of teachers and ICT facilitators here in New Zealand who were at the Learning@School conference earlier this year, or at the TUANZ seminar today who I can imagine would find these notes of enormous value as they take the things they've learned about these new technologies back to their own schools and colleagues. Thanks George!

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It's been a privilege to attend the Learning@School conference in Rotorua over the past three days, listening to challenging keynote speakers including Jennifer Corriero speaking about her involvement in TakingITglobal, David Warlick on addressing the needs of the digital generation and Russell Bishop on messages for mainstream educators.

Immediately after the conference I have had to travel to Malaysia to follow up on some work there, so no time to develop my reflections and thoughts on this amazing event - but here is a list of some of the things that impressed me..

• great venue and wonderful people of Rotorua
  
• exceptional list of workshops and presentations, of NZ teachers presenting to other NZ teachers
  
• the high level of energy among participants - and the sharing of experience among those who've been involved in the clusters for a while with those who are first timers
  
• a 'maturity' that is developing in our schools - moving from wanting to be excited about the new possibilities, to asking fundamental questions like "how do we know we're doing it right/well? etc
  
• a genuine interest in leadership and management of change among principals, facilitators and cluster leaders

I've posted the presentations I did to SlideShare:

• Ten Trends - spotlight presentation
  
• Managing my online life - breakout presentation

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We've added a new logo on the right hand side of the CORE website -titled CORE's Ten Trends for 2007

Clicking on this logo will take you to a list of ten trends that we've identified as being particularly important in 2007. The aim is to create some dialogue around some of the things that are happening in the NZ context regarding the use of ICT in education. The emphasis is on looking at the bigger picture, rather than the things absorb our time every day at the "coal face".

I will be using these ten trends as the focus of my Spotlight at the Learning@School conference this week, and would love to see plenty of contributions being made in the comments section at the end of each "Trend".

Each month or so the CORE staff are going to expand one of the themes with further links and references to prompt a deeper level of participation and discussion. We're sure to have missed some that people think are important, or included some that others think aren't - all of which should make the discussion fuller and richer!

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I've just been browsing through some of the presentations made to the recent K12 Online Conference - this site is a must for anyone wanting to learn more about new and innovative ways of using ICTs in teaching and learning. Among the offerings are:

• ???What is RSS and How do I Start Using It???? by Jeff Utecht from Shanghai, China
  
• ???Personal Professional Development ?? with Fries??? by Ewan McIntosh from Edinburgh, Scotland[keynote]
  
• ???Unleash the Potential: Remix Obstacles into Opportunities!??? by Anne Davis, Atlanta, Georgia, USA [keynote](worth reading someof the blogs she's linked to at the end of her section
  
• ???Not Just for Kids: Using Social Software to Create Community among Teachers and Provide Sustained Professional Development??? by Jeff Moore from Delran, New Jersey, USA

One that took my eye was ???Wiki While You Work ??? by Mark Wagner from Irvine, California, USA. If you've got the time to download this video file and watch/listen it's well worth it. Mark provides a very user-friendly overview of what the read-write web is all about, before looking specifically at the use of wikis.It's not all talking head stuff - he does a couple of teacher interviews, and uses screen shots to illustrate his message - plus some imaginaative cutting from scene to scene to keep the pace of the presentation flowing and interesting. He even has a wiki that you can go to to read notes from the presentation and contribute ideas and suggestions etc - it's at http://wikiwhileyouwork.wikispaces.com/

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A great first day of the ULearn conference in Christchurch yesterday - over 1400 teachers gathering for the annual conference on ICT use in Education. A special feature this year is the involvement of some early childhood educators in the leadup to the implementation of professional development programme to support the implementation of the ECE ICT strategy, Foundations for Discovery.

Keynote speaker for day one was Lisa Galarneau with a talk titled "Welcome to the Future: What online games can tell us about the future of learning". Lisa's presentation can be downloaded from her socialstudygames blogsite .

I presented a spotlight presentation and another workshop in the afternoon. The spotlight was billed as an "environment scan", looking at a range of issues and ideas influencing the implementation of ICT in education. The presentation can be downloaded here.

The workshop was titled "Web2.0 and the school's LMS: what's the connection" and provided an overveiw of the sorts of things that schools need to be considering as the nature of participation and use of the online environment changes. This presentation can be downloaded here.

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Day two of the CEGSA conference went very well - all sorts of interesting workshops and presentations.
A standout for me was a double act from Graham Wegner and Al Upton - both ICT facilitators from schools in the Adelaide area. Their presentation dealt with their experiences in using blogs - both personally and with teachers, focusing on the value of blogs as a professional learning tool.

I was particularly impressed with what Graeme had to say, and with the way he illustrated how his use of a blog had enabled him to become a part of a much wider and more diverse range of professional learning communities - communicating with people he'd never otherwise have had the opportunity to do so. He used a simple network map created in TouchGraph to illustrate the extent of these networks. I appreciated the thought Graham had put into getting his message across in such a clear and concise manner, thoughtfully reflecting on his own actions and decisions throughout the process of creating and maintaining his blog, and his approach to becoming an activie participant in the 'blogosphere'. This sort of reflection can be noted in the entries he makes in his blog.

Graham has posted his network map, along with his powerpoint show and some other useful links and diagrams on his Teaching Generation Z blog.
Al Upton has also posted some useful references from this sesson on his Al Upton and the MiniLegends blog. Both of these are worth a look at to get some more understanding of the use of blogs from a practitioner point of view.

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I'm enjoying the sunshine in Adelaide a the moment, having just presented the opening keynote at the Computers in Education Group of South Australia (CEGSA) annual conference, being held at the Technology School of the Future . A great range of workshops and presentations on the agenda - with a heavy focus on social software applications (blogs, wikis etc) that reflects where a lot of the innovation and thinking is currently at among the teachers who attend these sorts of conferences.

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I've been attending the New Zealand Reading Association annual conference in Invercargill this week, presenting a couple of workshops on the "Net Gen" and Blogs, and presenting a keynote talk this morning on "Thinking Digitally".

In preparing for my talk I revisited the online "e-book" published earlier this year by Educause titled Educating the Net Gen , edited by Diana and James Oblinger. I've found this title to be a very useful read as it contains chapters submitted by various authors, presenting a range of perspectives - including one from the Student's perspective by Carie Windham from Carolina State University.

Some excellent speakers and workshops - plus a comprehensive array of latest titles from many of New Zealand's leading publishers combine to make this a very worthwhile event!

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I've just finished attending the three-day AADES conference here in Sydney Australia, where I presented one of the lead addresses this morning.

For me this has been the most well organised and professionally enriching conferences I've attended all year! The conference programme committee have done an outstanding job with the programme and keynote speakers they had at the conference. These included:

Lane Clark from Canada who challenged delegates to look at how we must act to prepare learners for their future, not our past.

Dr David Smith for Sydney who provided an illuminating address based on his years of reasearch and activity in the area of quality teaching.

David Langford from the US who talked about Improving the Quality of learning, drawing from his extensive experience of working with schools in Australia over the past ten years.

Bob Hince from Sydney who provided an amusing yet powerful insight into the importance of leadership.

Bruce Sullivan from Queensland, who used humour, passiona and lots of energy to share how we can keep on innovating with the endergy of a four year old almost every day!

The lineup of keynotes complimented each other in the thoughtful way they'd been arranged int he programme, and this was built on further through the various workshops that were run after lunch by distance educators who belong to AADES.

Well done to all involved!

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I'm at the TUANZ Broadband Reloaded conference in Hastings at the moment, chairing the eLearning group discussions. We've had some challenging presentations to stimulate our thinking about how we might take advantage of the opportunities that Broadband will provide.

Among these was Bill St Arnaud , Senior Director, Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc in Canada, who provided us with a detailed insight into how, in various areas of Canada, the provision of Broadband to the Universities, and from there to the regions around them, has enabled educational institutions and schools to access a wide range of learning opportunities not previously within their reach.

Examples of these include:

• ALTA, an online project where students can conduct fundamental research into the nature of high energy cosmic rays (and related topics).
  
• Neptune a virtual aquarium project situated off the West Coast of Canada, enabling students to take control of a submersable camera from their desktop!
  

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Towards an ecology of eLearning
Based ona n anlaysis of the 77 papers in the 2002 ASCELITE proceedings, Alexander is critical of the form and nature of eLearning research reflected there. She asserts that it is time to abandon piece-meal approach to eLearning research
Need for a coordinated research agenda that focuses on the ecology of eLearning.
Proposing a new way of moving forward ?? with a project in mind

Continue reading "eAgenda - Shirley Alexander ?? UoT, Sydney" »

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A framework for learning processes
Member of the eLIG (eLearning Industry Group) in the UK. Presentation gave an in-depth view of what the eLIG is doing to establish a set of standards and architectural principals for an eLearning architecture that will take us forward. Key points include adoption of a web services model, identification of a common set of tools and services that can be used, and the pursuit of a ??semantic?? language model as we look ahead to the future.

Continue reading "eagenda - Prof Keith Baker, University of Reading" »

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eLearning ?? it??s not about the technology
The basic premise of Dom??s presentation is that technology alone isn??t what makes eLearning happen ?? perhaps it may assist in delivering content - but he argues the need for a much stronger emphasis on instructional design to ensure that the materials are then ??instuctional??.
Personal comment ?? sounded a little like someone who has come into this field very recently. Surely we??re well past notions of ??instructional design?? ?? replacing it with the understandings of ??learning design?? . The former reflects an ??instructivist?? approach. We certainly have a lot to learn from the former theories and theorists ?? but need to embrace what they have to teach us within the modern, constructivist, learner-centred approaches that have been a feature of so may of the presentations at this conference.

Continue reading "eagenda - Prof. Donn Ritchie ?? San Diego State University" »

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A virtual presentation. Prof Fryer challenged:
Thriving in ??Risk?? society ?? Challenges and possibilities for e-enablement
How can eLearning and e-enablment help people navigate their way through a very difference world?
What kind of learning society is emerging ?? what kind of people will we need?
Many references to the UK eLearning Strategy ?? many of the diagrams and quotes in his presentation came from that document.
Presented lots of research to show that there are widening gaps between groups in society regarding who has the skills and capabilities to navigate life in the ??risk society??
Key Message = ??Put The Learner at the Centre of Learning!!!

Continue reading "eagenda - Prof. Bob Fryer ?? NHSU, UK" »

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Learning in a digital world
Began with a reflection on the movie ??Shrek??, and how far we??ve come with the area of visualization. Main focus of his address was in how we might work towards creating the classroom of tomorrow, empahsising HPs commitment to providing solutions that are:
- high tech
- low cost
- provide the best customer experience

Continue reading "eagenda - Michael Humke ?? Hewlett Packard" »

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The Content Challenge ?? Why it finally matters
Presentation focused strongly on the notion of Knowledge Management, and the adoption of BPM (business process management) systems to ensure that organizations are able to ensure that the knowledge doesn??t get lost, that it is being kept within the organization and leveraged to provide better efficiencies and economies of scale.

Continue reading "eagenda - Dean McGahn ?? Gartner group (Asia Pacific)" »

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The quality issue in the development of the eLearning marketPresentation refrred to the results of the L-Change and SEEQUEL projects supported byt eh European Commission.

Continue reading "eAgenda - Prof. Claudio Dondi ?? SCIENTER" »

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Using activity theory and learning theory to map eLearning curriculum development in order to expand its object
Following the trajectory - eLearnng has now matured to the point where it is set to re-define what we mean by learning, rather than simply adding to or augmenting what we already do.
John has created a model that allows him to map the elements of the activity system, and also to identify where the tensions in that system lie.

Continue reading "eAgenda - Professor John Stevenson ?? Griffith University" »

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Choosing learning designs for eLearning settings
A long-time proponent of learning design, Ron??s presentation brought the discussion back to a pedagogical focus, with an emphasis on student activity and a constructivist pedagogy as the basis of effective learning design.

Continue reading "eAgenda - Ron Oliver ?? Edith Cowan University" »

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Setting the scene with two themes ?? an overview of global trends and some perspectives about online delivery by foreign providers ?? adapting to local markets.
Standout session, for me, of the conference ?? brilliant overview of the ??big picture?? that has provided a reference point for nearly all the other presentations. Ron??s presentation was a fast-paced overview of what??s happening across the world, supported by data, and more data and more data??!

Continue reading "eAgenda - Ron Perkinson ?? World Bank" »

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Challenge ?? ??Has the bubble burst on eLearning??? ?? with the failure of many high profile eLearning projects to ??deliver?? on their promises, we need to be looking more critically at what we are seeking to do and to accomplish.
??High speed capabilities meeting low speed needs?

Continue reading "eAgenda - Professor Glyn Davis ?? Griffith University" »

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