Learning to become...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Convergence culture on 12 14th, 2005 | No Comments
Another fine paper from Ulises Mejias: A Nomad’s Guide to Learning and Social Software. (Thanks to Will Richardson for the link) His insights on the cultural working out of social software technology is as astute as usual and his framework is superb:
At a more fundamental level, models of learning...
Grab-bag...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Blogs in higher ed on 10 31st, 2004 | No Comments
An interesting grab bag of links and thoughts from a morning of blog surfing:Interesting quote about authorship as the “unfolding action of a discourse” posted by Clancy Ratliff in an abstract she’s submitting to a conference:
Lunsford (1999) takes up these critiques of authorship...
Blogs versus discussion boards...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Uncategorized on 10 6th, 2004 | No Comments
James Framer at his new blog Incorporated Subversion has an excellent article:Communication dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communities of inquiry in online learning environments. His general conclusions fuel my doubts about the appropriateness of threaded discussions as effective...
Conversation and circulation...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Uncategorized on 10 2nd, 2004 | Comments Off
A great quote from John Kruper’s about page that sums up a lot about the e-learning and blogging process
The value of the Net doesn’t simply lie in the way it allows groups of people to talk with one another. It also comes from the way that, unlike telephones or video links, the Net can provide...