Edtechpost by Scott Leslie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License.
Cite
May 2004
You are browsing the archive for May 2004.
Academic Use of Digital Resources: Disciplinary Differences and the Issue of Progression
http://www.shef.ac.uk/nlc2004/Proceedings/Symposia/ Symposium9/Jones_et_al.htm Paper by Chris Jones, Maria Zenios and Jill Griffiths which looks at the differences between disciplines in their uptake of digital technologies in a UK post-secondary setting. The paper is part of the proceeedings of the recent Networked Learning Conference 2004 held at Lancaster University. This is important for those of us involved [...]
A Case Study on Different pedagogical uses of CMS with different learner groups
http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=6728& page=65&catID=226&printable=1 It’s been far to easy in the past for various people to claim ‘such and such commerical CMS simply won’t do because it doesn’t deal with my pedagogical model.’ And sometimes it’s true – the kind of interaction you want to promote may not be doable within a specific environment because its user [...]
Practical Interoperability from the Reload folks
http://www.reload.ac.uk/interop.html Recognizing that saying one complies with a standard and implementing a system that does so (especially when some of the standards seem to change nightly) are two different things, the good folks at Reload have built this page that reports on various real world users’ attempts to import content packages built with Reload into [...]
iCommons Canada Project
http://www.cippic.ca/icommons-canada Via Mike Mattson at the U of C (thanks Mike!) comes mention of this initiative to “develop Creative Commons licences for Canadian artists” (and presumably other content creators as well). They promise that the final draft of the Canadian Creative Commons licenses will be available by September 30th. I’m interested to find out how [...]
Wiki for Retreat on Mellon Open Source Projects
http://rit.mellon.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome Who knows if this was meant to be public, but as the link isn’t password protected and I stumbled across it on the web, I’m assuming it’s open for viewing. This wiki was built in support of meetings held this past February concerning higher ed open source projects funded by the Mellon Foundation. The [...]
LORNET Website
http://www.lornet.org/eng/index.htm While this project was announced last fall, it seems to be up an running now and has this website. For those who missed the announcement last October, this is the NSERC-funded $7.5 million/5 year project that, as far as I know, represents the largest ongoing learning object repository research initiative in Canada. The project [...]
Finding Learning Objects – Walking the Talk
Can our intrepid search find a learning object in time to figure out how to calculate ‘Z-scores’? Tune in and find out!
http://www.educause.edu/pub/ eq/eqm04/eqm0421.asp Given that the idea of perpetual email accounts is enough to make most IT administrators packup and run, the innovations in offering lifelong learning environments presented in this Educause Quarterly article by Ellen R. Cohn are likely to fall on similarly unreceptive ears in many IT departments. Still, the ideas are worth considering. [...]
Recent Comments