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August 19, 2008http://terrya.edublogs.org/2008/08/19/first-full-release-version-o I am pleased that Ben, Dave and others at ELGG have released version 1.0 of ELGG as scheduled yesterday. The new version promises a number of significant improvements over Elgg .9 that we have been piloting at Athabasca. The software is described here and can be downloaded and installed locally or taken for a test [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s) August 14, 2008http://terrya.edublogs.org/2008/08/14/creating-personal-networks-a Thanks to Stephen and Graham Atwell, I discovered a fascinating development in the Personal learning Environment development. To date most of the PLE implementations I have seen have been aggregators of RSS feeds, with not much more functionality than a iGoogle or Pageflake portal. The paper “Designing for Change: Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments” by Fridolin [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s) July 10, 2008http://terrya.edublogs.org/2008/07/10/everything-almost-you-wanted My friend Jennifer Maddrell (of EdTechTalk fame) has completed a systems analysis of Athabasca University. She posted the report to Scribd and it can be downloaded or read, but I think you have to join scribd (which is likely a useful activity in any case). I assume the report was done as coursework in her [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s) http://terrya.edublogs.org/2008/07/10/african-association-for-dist I thought I would take a moment to link to the slides and the paper I wrote for this morning’s keynote at the ACDE’s 2nd Congress being held in Lagos and hosted by the National Open University of Nigeria. This talk has forced me out of my comfort zone, as I’ve had to do more [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s) July 03, 2008http://terrya.edublogs.org/2008/07/03/another-issue-of-irrodl-and- Volume 9, No. 2 of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (www.irrodl.org) is now online.I like this issue for a number of reasons: I managed to twist the arm of a colleague, Jon Baggaley, to guest edit the issues, as I am still officially on sabbatical. Jon , with the usual able [...] Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s) June 27, 2008
Thanks to a tip from OLDaily, I note that Australia’s Flexible Learning Framework just announced funding for 147 projects values at a total of $5.3 million. This averages $36,000 per project. This is exactly the type of grassroots, action research type projects that we need in Canada. The money per project or overall, given the [...]
Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s) June 26, 2008http://terrya.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/disruptive-online-education- I’ve long been a fan of Clayton Christensen’s ‘disruptive innovation” theories outlined in “Innovator’s Dilemma” and the follow up “Innovator’s Solution I think he provides a great deal of sound theoretical and practical reasoning about the process of innovation. Unfortunately, the examples in his books come mostly from industry and especially high tech innovation [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s) June 01, 2008http://terrya.edublogs.org/2008/06/01/2nd-edition-of-the-theory-an I am pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the edited text Theory and Practice of Online Learning. As the first edition, this one is available in paper copy ($39.95 Canadian) and in PDF for open access download. This is one of the first 6 books produced by the newly launched Athabasca University Press which [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s) May 08, 2008http://terrya.edublogs.org/2008/05/08/collectives-borgs-and-hive-m Jon Dron and I have been writing a book chapter on our “Taxonomy of the Many” - groups. networks and collectives. In the process we’ve been thinking (again) about the challenge of the term collective to our individual sense of unique self. We continue to see applications evolve where data mining and aggregation of large [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s) May 06, 2008
I spent a few learning filled days last week at the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education Conference in Banff. This was the first conference of the new organization created from the merger of the Association For Media and Technology in Education and the Canadian Association for Distance Education. I suggested at the final plenary [...]
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