Moodle Journal
MARCH 9, 2005
We now have Dspace content management system running at Bromley College and it seems to be a superb piece of software that will allow us to store search and retrieve learning objects and their assets. The metadata really comes into its own when you consider that images, videos, audio files and Scorm packages have no text for system like SharePoint to drill down into.
The Learning Circuits
MARCH 31, 2005
I'm making this a new post even though I started it as a comment on George's post about Informalization of everything. I found that I just went so far afield, and my comments were really relevant to several other postings, so here it is as a new post. First, the "informalization of everything" is important. Anyone can now say anything about anything.
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Big Dog, Little Dog
MARCH 28, 2005
Denham Grey: Personal Learning. My thoughts around learning have been profoundly altered by reading Wenger, Brown & Duguid and von Krogh and focus on collective workplace practices. Seeing What's Next: Porter, Drucker and Christensen. "If I were to be assigned to do some innovation research today, I would use a combination of all three approaches, looking at the markets, and potential markets, and the forces that drive them, from all three perspectives" -- Dave Pollard.
Moodle Journal
MARCH 5, 2005
Ran an Introduction to Moodle course for JISC on Feb 28 for 15 delegates, a good session espite some server blips. Everyone took a 68 page manual away plus a CD. I have one request to service regarding granting access to our own Moodle system for evalution purposes. Looking forward to the West Midlands Moodle user group meeting, where I am intending revealing some of my own trial recommendations as part of my presentation.
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The Learning Circuits
MARCH 31, 2005
There is the old cliche that train companies should have realized they were in the transportation business and invented and embraced airplanes. This always seemed a bit dim to me. There was just not that much value-add they could have, well, added. I bring this up because I think a lot about the training business. I don't mean the vendors, but the internal training group.
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The Learning Circuits
MARCH 25, 2005
For a while, I've been wrestling with the problem of segueing elegantly from novice to expert in computer-mediated environments. Tony O'Driscoll, in an Educational Technology article, shoehorned in this diagram about how the role of formal and informal knowledge changes as you move up in expertise. We are comfortable using formal methods (training, blended, etc) to provide the basics, and we know that experts continually are negotiating new understandings at the very top.
The Learning Circuits
MARCH 17, 2005
One of the prime rules of blogging has to be that good information can come from just about any source. While going through my email, I decided to click on what was obviously an unsolicited newsletter from a vendor. The concept of an enterprise wiki sucked me in. I'm not sold on that idea. But what did make me want to blog was ideas raised in another article in the newsletter entitled Three Rules for Sharing Informal Knowledge.
The Learning Circuits
MARCH 12, 2005
Citizen journalism is an interesting concept that continues to gain attention. Sites are beginning to provide resources to assist these journalists in improving the quality of their writing and reporting. As with any societal change, the visible is only an indication of a foundational shift. "Informalization" seems to be a growing trend - podcasting, music, journalism, etc.
The Learning Circuits
MARCH 8, 2005
In the old days, web purists ranted against Flash. It was proprietary. It wasn't web-like. How do people feel now? I'm thinking more of posting on the open web than in a controlled in-house environment. I'd like to replace Abode pdf white papers with a new design I'm calling a "brief." Briefs are created in FlashPaper. Take a look. Is the fact that Macromedia owns Flash a hang-up?
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The Learning Circuits
MARCH 4, 2005
Dave, This is actually a comment on your earlier posting, but I couldn't resist adding the picture, so I've posted here. It appears to me that the Big Brother ideal ( see all, know all, control all ) functions, in the eyes of many, as a driver of progress. It incites people with money to invest in technology because they know other wealthy control freaks have the budgets to buy and the will to extend their control.
Big Dog, Little Dog
MARCH 13, 2005
Learning Networks - The New Framework. Stephen Downes presented a work in progress in Palermo this week, Learning Networks - Theory & Practice. Leading the Transition from Classrooms to Learning Spaces. The convergence of technology, pedagogy, and space can lead to exciting new models of campus interaction. Developing Self-Directed Learners. According to Abdullah, self-directed learners are "responsible owners and managers of their own learning process".
Big Dog, Little Dog
MARCH 9, 2005
Knowledge at the Top and Bottom. One of the most human characteristics of human knowledge is that the "top" of the knowledge heap and the "bottom" of the knowledge heap, while they may seem far apart, are intimately related and not necessarily removed from each other. Blogs and the values of journalism. For me, the defining moment at the "Blogging, Journalism and Credibility" conference held at Harvard recently came in an exchange between Jimmy Wales, creator of Wikipedia, and Jill Abramson, man
Big Dog, Little Dog
MARCH 9, 2005
Knowledge at the Top and Bottom. One of the most human characteristics of human knowledge is that the "top" of the knowledge heap and the "bottom" of the knowledge heap, while they may seem far apart, are intimately related and not necessarily removed from each other. Blogs and the values of journalism. For me, the defining moment at the "Blogging, Journalism and Credibility" conference held at Harvard recently came in an exchange between Jimmy Wales, creator of Wikipedia, and Jill Abramson, man
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Big Dog, Little Dog
MARCH 6, 2005
March 6, 2005. The Time Is Now. In a climate of globalization, mergers and the never-ending drive to accelerate product development, organizations need-more urgently than ever-to tap into resident knowledge. Anti-patterns, avoiding pitfalls. Anti-patterns alert you to traps, unforgiving situations, bad places and practices that just do not work! Planning for Neomillennial Learning Styles.
The Learning Circuits
MARCH 9, 2005
I am just curious what people have found in terms of open-source LMSs. Are there any good ones?
The Learning Circuits
MARCH 12, 2005
For those that know me (all three of them) know that I am pretty passionate about the power of the Internet being its ability to connect people to people, not people to content. I was reading an entry called Learning Conversation from Jay Cross' blog and was provoked enough to start writing a comment. A really long comment. So long in fact I thought I would post it here instead and get other people's reactions rather than have it buried there as a comment.
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