http://elgg.ell.aau.dk/ryberg/weblog/102.html

My good colleague (and girlfriend, I might add), has just written an article about the moral panics surrounding youth and their use of internet - especially social networking sites. Also it takes a critical look on the use of experts in the media. We have often wondered how it could become a 'news story' that at least 10% of young people are willing to prostitute themselves for clothes, online profiles or even a burger - well we did not wonder why it became a news story, but how they could bring such a story, when the official and well documented statistics report that less than 1% of young people have actually ever done that. How can there be such a gap? Do journalist actually look critical into such claims, when talking to an alleged expert, do they just believe them uncritically or is the story too good to be doubted? Well - one can read the article here»  (In danish)

A second thing was that Carsten Jessen from the Pedagogical University of Denmark has been interviewed for Computerworlds podcast - he delivers some very good remarks and reflections on games and learning - but check it out here» (In Danish) 

http://elgg.ell.aau.dk/ryberg/weblog/126.html

A thesis called:

Comm.unities.of.prac.tice 2.0
How blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking offer
facilities that support learning in practice in
communities of practice

It is written by Master Student Martin Kloos and I haven't read it yet, but it sounds interesting and might be very interesting for our students to read. Since it has been released under a creative commons license I have quickly copied to my filespace and you can download it from here:

Thesis - Comm.unities.of.prac.tice 2.0 application/pdf 

http://elgg.ell.aau.dk/ryberg/weblog/152.html

Open University has just put their courses and course materials open to the entire world - this is what you'll get and wont get:

OpenLearn provides:

• online free learning material taken from Open University courses
• state-of-the-art learner support
• tools connecting learners with learners and learners with educators
• learning media and technologies on a large scale

OpenLearn does not:

• require you to become an Open University student
• grant degrees or award credits
• provide access to the services available to students registered on Open University courses

Source at openlearn »

This is just great - of course you won't get a certification, but you'll be able to review materials and go through the modules yourself. The whole thing is published under a creative commons license (www.creativecommons.org) and the system behind...well, that is the Open Source System Moodle  - this is just the way to go! Also do check out the blog OUseful info by Tony Hirst - loads of good stuff there!

Wauv - I wish Aalborg University would engage in this project as well - this would be so great! w00t to the OU!!