tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58652018017620227802012-01-20T15:04:51.841ZAnoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.comBlogger531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-30968061282259187962011-11-18T12:11:00.001Z2011-12-16T16:11:32.500Z

Thanks a lot to George for his response to my previous post. This started out as a short comment in reply, but grew like topsy into another speculative post. First, I agree with George that there is a body of literature that describes non-digital scholarship with a similar lens to Kumashiro et al. However, there is also a body of literature about the ways that scholars have collaborated, and I

Isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16011918378458073867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-64433820444287126422011-11-01T13:00:00.000Z2011-11-18T12:28:12.994Z

Eleni has drawn my attention to Veletsianos & Kimmons’ new paper on Networked participatory scholarship. They take a historical approach and “delineate how scholarship itself is changing with the emergence of certain tools, social behaviours, and cultural expectations associated with participatory technologies.” They build on Burton, Cohen and Weller, and then define Networked Participatory

Isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16011918378458073867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-55375180958768580242010-07-08T18:08:00.003+01:002010-07-08T18:54:29.465+01:00

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Danenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-51458564998832658172010-05-27T15:36:00.003+01:002010-05-27T15:59:19.009+01:00

We have a PhD scholarship for a 3-year study "Networked Innovation: The role of collaborations in creation and diffusion of innovative teaching and learning practices in universities". The details are below:The studentship is for a period of three years, subject to satisfactory progress and provides payment of tuition fees at the UK/EU rate (£3,450 pa) plus an annual stipend of £14,275. The

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-50690612460639842942010-03-11T12:26:00.004Z2010-03-11T12:45:22.167Z

We (Helen Beetham, Lou McGill, Karen Smith, Isobel Falconer and I) have been carring out the Synthesis and Evaluation for the JISC/HEA OER Programme (see press release). We are working with all projects, in institutions/ subject centres across England and Wales, on evaluation. The projects seem to be gaining useful models for their own evaluation and progress, and have opportunities to share with

Allison Littlejohnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-88303355055117872512010-03-08T10:29:00.005Z2010-03-10T17:20:01.942Z

On Monday 1st March 2010 the Caledonian Academy hosted an event to discuss the future of universities. The event was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of the ‘Literacy in the Digital University(LiDU)’ project. The event included research partners from the Universities of Edinburgh, Lancaster the UK Open University and the Institute of Education in London, along

Allison Littlejohnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-10226920450536834932010-03-08T10:23:00.000Z2010-03-08T10:25:53.655Z

The Caledonian Academy is leading a project to explore how the sharing and ‘mash-up’ of online educational resources will maximise learning opportunities.The Open Educational Resources (OER) Programme, a multi-million pound initiative funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Committees (JISC), Higher Education funding council HEFCE and the UK Higher Education Academy, aims to make a wide range

Allison Littlejohnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-7191033830709006292010-02-25T10:18:00.005Z2010-02-25T10:57:14.141Z

Do you have an interest in how social tools may be used to support informal learning, and have experience developing with AJAX, Google APIs Netvibes or other widget architectures?We have some funding from a previous project which needs to be used up by the end of July 2010 and would like to use it to undertake some development work to move our "Charting" ideas forward.Charting is the mechanism by

Colin Milliganhttps://profiles.google.com/106796011626511776113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-37224260383673929422009-10-27T16:11:00.006Z2009-10-27T16:32:31.819Z

Isobel Falconer, Allison Littlejohn, Anoush Margaryan and Colin Milligan of the Caledonian Academy have been partners within a European Consortium led by the Frauenhofer Society developing a proposal for a Medium-Scale Focused Research project proposal on Architectural Distributed Design Studios (ARDIDES).The proposal was successfully submitted on October 27, 2009, under the 5th FP7 ICT-TEL

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-81520554558876972412009-10-26T15:35:00.007Z2009-10-27T16:10:41.467Z

In the past few months Colin Milligan, Allison Littlejohn and Anoush Margaryan of the Caledonian Academy have been collaborating as partners within a European Consortium led by the Open University of the Netherlands developing a proposal for a Large-Scale Integrated Project on Networked Innovation in Collaborative Environments.The proposal was successfully submitted on October 27, 2009, under the

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-34913744812572700182009-07-31T15:50:00.002+01:002009-07-31T15:55:52.240+01:00

Clemens Wieser will join the Caledonian Academy team on August 3, 2009. Clemens will conduct a PhD study on the role of social networks in enhancing students’ transition from education to the workplace. Clemens obtained his Magister rer. nat. degree (equivalent to MSc) in Geography (major) and Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology (minors) at the University of Vienna in 2008. He passed his Master’

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-22003052044065665062009-07-30T10:10:00.002+01:002009-07-30T10:14:26.058+01:00

Karen Smith has been awarded the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) newer researcher prize 2009. Karen will use the prize money to develop work around the transformative potential of 'flying-faculty' transnational teaching experiences. In addition, Karen will sit on the SRHE's Research and Development Committee in 2010 and will be mentored by a senior higher education researcher

Karen Smithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-21061795734893018562009-07-03T16:50:00.005+01:002009-07-06T09:27:48.263+01:00

Being a Learner: Dealing with ambiguity and complexity in research and knowledge workWe have secured funding for a new PhD studentship to be based at GCU. Here are the details:We live in an increasingly complex and ambiguous world – sometimes described as supercomplex: ‘a world where nothing can be taken for granted, where no frame of understanding or of action can be entertained with any

Colin Milliganhttps://profiles.google.com/106796011626511776113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-69292406000570268632009-06-18T13:52:00.003+01:002009-06-18T14:07:09.261+01:00

The Caledonian Academy has been funded to carry out the evaluation and synthesis function of the JISC programme on Open Educational Resources. The programme has funded indivudal, subject discipline and insitutional projects, which are expected to make 'a significant amount of existing learning resources freely available online' see: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/oer.aspxThe evaluation

Karen Smithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-45626196774625151962009-06-18T13:23:00.002+01:002009-06-18T13:30:36.644+01:00

Karen Smith from the Caledonian Academy is part of team who have successfully secured funding from the Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (part of the Higher Education Academy) for a project to look at international students' experiences of UK exams. Karen will be working with Jackie Riley (School of Engineering and Computing, GCU) and Nick Pilcher (Edinburgh Napier).Many students

Karen Smithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-83812508145809832272009-05-18T12:50:00.002+01:002009-05-18T12:54:50.077+01:00

The Caledonian Academy is in discussions with the Caledonian Graduate Centre to plan a joint proposal for a Marie Curie training network during the 2009-10 academic year. If successful the ‘Learn 2 Work’ programme would be led by Glasgow Caledonian University (Caledonian Academy, the Graduate Centre and two academic schools) in collaboration with around ten leading academic and industry partners

Allison Littlejohnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-28306845873246031882009-03-24T16:30:00.004Z2009-03-24T16:42:05.524Z

How do universities prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist? Harold Jarche recently presented this grand challenge to Education and Industry. This challenge is highly relevant to the development and growth of talent for industry and for the economy. My colleagues Anoush Margaryan , Colin Milligan and I (Allison Littlejohn ) have been extending our ideas on how we might rise to this

Allison Littlejohnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-79317341107964104612009-03-04T16:13:00.004Z2009-03-04T16:22:11.099Z

The Caledonian Academy is offering a 3-year studentship to carry out research leading to a PhD investigating the role of social networks in enhancing learners’ transition from education to the workplace and supporting knowledge work. This PhD studentship is funded, and will be supervised by the Caledonian Academy. The studentship offers a unique opportunity to work with an

Colin Milliganhttps://profiles.google.com/106796011626511776113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-10040606614296744922009-01-29T13:06:00.009Z2009-01-29T14:33:04.201Z

This week we started a new research study on 'Learning from Incidents' in partnership with Shell, ConocoPhilips and BP. The aim of our study is to develop new approaches to learning that will reduce incidents affecting health and safety in the workplace. This industry-academia partnership involves a 3 year PhD Fellowship funded by the UK Energy Institute. Allison Littlejohn and Anoush Margaryan

Allison Littlejohnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-83512240911560283452008-12-15T17:25:00.004Z2009-01-06T10:32:55.591Z

In 2006 Anoush Margaryan , Kathryn Trinder and I led a project funded by the UK Higher Education Academy exploring the notion of learners as 'Digital Natives': Learning from Digital Natives . The final report was released earlier this year (2008).Anoush has been reanalysing the data to find out the nature and extent of students’ use of digital technologies for formal and informal learning and

Allison Littlejohnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-21875856395687342742008-12-04T13:24:00.002Z2008-12-04T13:39:01.026Z

In discussing self-regulated learning with colleagues – focusing on Boekaert’s 2002 paper - I incautiously remarked that the teacher needed somehow to bring the students’ goals in line with academic goals – and was immediately pounced upon for being old-fashioned and teacher-centric in my views. This incident highlights for me one of the fundamental problems with self-regulated learning and the

isobelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-57290232688390995642008-11-14T10:01:00.004Z2008-11-14T10:17:07.176Z

Yesterday we hosted a short event here at the Caledonian Academy centred around our action research partnership with Shell International. Mark Batho, Chief Executive of SFC spoke on the need for universities to supply graduates with appropriate skills, and Dr Sebastian Graeb-Konneker of Shell provided some personal thoughts on making the transition from Academia to the eneterprise. For our

Colin Milliganhttps://profiles.google.com/106796011626511776113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-51578068957032464972008-10-30T17:39:00.000Z2008-10-30T17:42:44.596Z

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Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-71636802858445569652008-09-03T12:03:00.003+01:002008-09-03T12:24:28.043+01:00

A group of us at the Caledonian Academy submitted a proposal for a Marie Curie European Initial Training Network (ITN). The proposal is to establish a research and training programme in the area of self-regulated learning and adaptive social technologies.The proposal is led by Glasgow Caledonian University, in collaboration with eleven leading academic and industry partners in six countries (UK,

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-8861276496665785662008-08-05T08:22:00.006+01:002008-08-05T23:07:26.908+01:00

As you’ll have gathered, I’ve been pre-occupied recently with self organisation, self regulation and learning. Thus two phrases leapt out at me when my Planet project colleague, Yishay Mor, blogged about Europlop 2008.“Funny thing, how social scientists will stand before a hall full of neatly packed passive listeners and preach about collaborative constructivist learning, while the computer

isobelnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-11492150684623905552008-08-04T13:58:00.004+01:002008-08-05T08:14:40.402+01:00

In a previous post, I noted that Carver suggests that self regulated learning and self organised learning are two different processes, and that different parts of the brain may be responsible – although this is, he says, a speculative proposal. If it is true, though, we cannot have a linear transition from one to the other – the process cannot reside in some intermediate part of the brain. We

isobelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-45268066077466735372008-08-03T10:32:00.002+01:002008-08-03T12:11:12.162+01:00

When Anoush alerted us to Susan Blackmore’s talk on memetics it sparked a flurry of debate. Like the rest of the CA I have a number of issues with Blackmore’s argument. However, what I was struck by was the relation between Universal Darwinism, and the idea of self organisation discussed in my last post.In my snowflake example of self organisation, we have, essentially, two factors at work: the

isobelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-55554323688348678162008-08-02T18:33:00.008+01:002008-08-02T19:09:21.982+01:00

I (Isobel) have been reading some of the psychology literature on self regulation recently, and also following up on the (rather underdeveloped) psychology ideas about self organisation - leading to this over-long blog post. Sorry folks.Self Regulation has its foundations in cybernetic control theory. There are a large number of variants on the idea, but core features are that:• Processes are

isobelnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-64237824694402698292008-07-24T13:37:00.003+01:002008-07-24T15:10:38.805+01:00

I (Allison) have been thinking about processes and environments that might support transformational change in approaches to learning and teaching. Recently I had a discussion with Anoush and Koos about the notion that Ideagoras could be potential incubators for ideas on learning innovation.Ideagoras are online environments (usually wiki-based) where people (researchers and developers) can

Allison Littlejohnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-78930047613548767002008-06-09T16:34:00.005+01:002008-06-10T09:41:54.519+01:00

Last week the first of a series of 5 workshops (26 staff in total) were done with the School of the Built and Natural Environment (BNE) to help staff develop their modules for the blended learning Degree in Construction Management which is due to start in Semester A 2008.BNE will offer blended learning modules on their Construction Management course to their learners who will be on campus only

Koos Winnipsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-66038184996223058452008-06-04T14:03:00.004+01:002008-06-04T14:10:39.924+01:00

We are recruiting again. Caledonian Academy is relatively new and we have established a dynamic group of colleagues working across research and development. We now have a new Chair post and would welcome applications from interested colleagues.Professor of Learning innovationGlasgow Caledonian University, UK£51,276 to £64,125 per annumThe Caledonian Academy is a flagship initiative at Glasgow

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-75894329133151649022008-05-30T11:18:00.001+01:002008-05-30T11:27:11.317+01:00

New video out from Commoncraft about Social Media. Very good explanation. many more of these are available at Commoncraft: http://www.commoncraft.com/show

Koos Winnipsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-66884167117862901322008-04-24T15:26:00.001+01:002008-04-24T15:36:59.714+01:00

The people from Box.net made a little game to play: Googolopoly. You can even download the full game from them. Nice to play when you get bored with the Microsoft monopoly.Thanks to Kathy for sending this on.

Koos Winnipsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-25132706390441246042008-04-09T11:33:00.007+01:002008-12-10T11:37:12.361Z

The EU proposal that a number of people at the Academy worked on for the last number of months submitted yesterday! Big relief, and a lot of hard work got done on this. For a number of people at the Academy I think the question that springs to mind today is: ‘What to do with my life now?’ (the answer is not hard I guess; get some sleep, and then on the with the next ;)We expect this project can

Koos Winnipsnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-49666091078200660512007-12-08T17:39:00.000Z2007-12-08T18:58:41.547Z

Following a chat with Allison yesterday, and my reading of Kinchin & Hay's paper on the myth of the research-led teacher, I(Isobel) am wondering whether in our thinking about collective learning, we haven't remained tied to the traditional view of knowledge as residing in the heads of people. And I think this is the origin of some of my unease with Kinching and Hay's arguments - they present

isobelnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-39131042312134918142007-12-03T23:39:00.000Z2007-12-05T17:16:47.210Z

This last session focused on Linking Web 2.0 to Education 2.0.Julia Jaeger (a learning consultant from a company called Common Sense) spoke about collaboration and learning between international tutors who were using open source tools. This was a blended course for a distributed group of teachers and has been delivered for over three years. They use Skype for communication, wiki for progress

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-38351261993024842792007-12-03T23:03:00.000Z2007-12-05T17:19:06.296Z

The second plenary session of the day focused on Social Networking and Web 2.0 in Learning.Firstly, Sian Bayne of Edinburgh University spoke about how they are using Second Life (SL) in an MSc programme in E-Learning - an online programme, with a distributed group of mostly adult learners. She used Freud's notion of unheimlich (the Uncanny) to characterise Second Life. Unheimlich is the effect

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-54853251415835446492007-12-03T22:02:00.001Z2007-12-05T17:20:46.398Z

Learning Object RepositoriesNext was the session on Learning Object Repositories that I was presenting at. Others presenting within this session were: Richard Windle from the UK RLO CETL, Leo Højsholt-Poulsen, UNI-C/EdReNe Network, Denmark; Giovanni Fulantelli of the Italian National Research Council; and Ruth Rominger of Monterey Institute for Technology and Education,My presentation was the

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-17851577314596885842007-12-03T21:07:00.000Z2007-12-05T17:22:17.306Z

Application of TEL research/Kaleidoscope: My presentation was planned to take place later that afternoon, but before then I went to find out a bit more about the research in technology-enhanced learning carried out within the Kaleidoscope Network. Kaleidoscope is a Network of Excellence (NoE) funded under the EU FP6. It comprises 90 research units across 24 countries in the EU and Canada, with

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-81855289280285900732007-12-03T16:55:00.000Z2007-12-05T17:23:36.410Z

Day 1 started with a number of great keynotes:Dominic Fobih, Ghanian Minister of Education, talked about the strategic drive in Ghana to shift from agricultural economy to knowledge economy, to which ICT is a key component. He discussed a range of inititaives in Ghana focusing on implementing ICT in Education. Main issues: affordability of technology, ICT literacy, perceptions among older people

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-65329632194506706512007-12-03T15:20:00.000Z2007-12-14T13:46:55.504Z

I was at Online Educa Berlin (OEB) last week, where I was giving a talk on issues in sharing educational resources via learnig object repositories. This was my second time at OEB, and based on my previous expereince (in 2002), I didn't have high expectations. I was however pleasantly surprised with the overall good quality of this year's keynotes and most parallel sessions I attended (maybe I am

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-84544827972707291102007-11-25T14:10:00.000Z2007-11-25T14:27:09.132Z

I (Allison) have been thinking about how our notion of 'charting' fits with the current 'VLE debate' at the Open Universities in the UK and the Netherlands (see Stephen Downes post). This raises questions about control versus freedom.In his contribution to this debate Martin Weller comments 'we have educational versions of tools, closed systems, selected readings, etc. And then we have web 2.0

Allison Littlejohnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-20251089185191932112007-11-22T12:46:00.000Z2007-11-22T14:34:49.243Z

I (Isobel) have been reflecting on Colin and Anoush's thoughts posted on 20 November (see How can we Chart the Wisdom of Crowds)Conscious or purposeful? I’m not very comfortable with the idea that the givers are unconscious of donating to the collective knowledge in type a) wisdom. I think the givers are more sophisticated than this suggests. But it is the implication here that the “giver

isobelnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-91962978884195802512007-11-20T15:57:00.000Z2007-11-20T16:02:29.208Z

We (Allison, Colin and Anoush) have been thinking about what we mean by ‘the wisdom of the crowds’. The phrase can be interpreted in two ways:Type (a) - the wisdom of the crowds as a snapshot of popular preferences, behaviours or actions. For example, recommender systems point to related items purchased by consumers, though these are not necessarily the highest quality articles. The charts offer

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-59642343653382221842007-11-01T22:10:00.000Z2008-12-10T11:37:12.630Z

Over the past few weeks a few of us in the Caledonian Academy (Allison Littlejohn, Anoush Margaryan and Colin Milligan ) have been thinking about future learning models and environments quite a bit. This post summarises some of our ideas as we begin to formulate a vision of Collective Learning. We'll first describe the concept as it relates to corporate learning, but longer term, we are also

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-46938895866246699522007-07-24T04:27:00.000+01:002007-07-23T20:29:53.470+01:00

To follow up on the previous post, here are some notes (from Allison L.) regarding a framework for thinking about how these applications can work together to enable knowledge construction of the sort that we were referring to:"In my search through ecology texts I have gleaned the following gems. Please read with the understanding that a little knowledge can be a bad/misleading thing :-)1) Ecology

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-39080681366042325382007-07-23T16:07:00.000+01:002007-07-23T17:05:36.295+01:00

Allison L and I are talking about personal knowledge management environments, and I mentioned Netvibes as one example. Allison disagreed:"Netvibes seems similar to Google Homepage... It allows you to personalise a 'homepage' with news etc. Perhaps this system is more flexible, but these mashups seem pretty mainstream nowadays.I would describe these as personal infomation environments rather than

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-9870650176796145282007-07-23T16:02:00.000+01:002007-07-23T16:06:18.481+01:00

Allison wrote:"Was checking out the last CETIS meeting - prompted by this email from Charles. I think lots of the ideas discussed at the meeting are aligned with the Shell proposal, though they are, indeed, useful for Realworld.Sheila McNeil's blog gives a summary of all the presentations. David Davies has been exploring 'mashups'. I think these have great potential, though they could

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-34469596366627114062007-04-18T10:55:00.000+01:002007-04-18T11:04:49.552+01:00

In the past few days, Sunday Herald, BBC News Scotland, and Radio Scotland hosted features on the Caledonian Academy and our "Learning from digital natives: Integrating formal and informal learning" project . We are gaining lots of publicity!Sunday Herald Blog entry on this article The Herald BBC newsNewsdrive BBC Scotland

Anoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140987404466710647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865201801762022780.post-58172228384787454202007-04-10T16:02:00.000+01:002007-04-10T16:55:31.982+01:00

The Caledonian Academy Reading Group met for the first time on March the 29th. The aim of this group is to encourage blue skies thinking that will support research and scholarship in learning and teaching. We plan to hold monthly reading events discussing key articles on contemporary issues in learning and teaching.The topic of our first meeting was Workplace Learning and Implications for

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More resources on information and learning literacies (contributed by Allison Littlejohn and Axel Bruns in response to my earlier post) :1) John Crawford and Christine Irving, National Information Literacy Framework.2) Axel Bruns, Rachel Cobcroft, Jude Smith, and Stephen Towers Mobile Learning Technologies and the Move towards ‘User-LedEducation3) Axel Bruns, Beyond Difference: Reconfiguring

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Jane Guiller sent this paper called '101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom' by Conklin (2007). I have not read it yet, but it looks interesting: there are lots of ideas some of which were tested in Conklin's course "Imagining Technology" at Elon University .

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In "Uses of Blogs" edited by by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs , Jean Burgess is writing about use of blogs in higher education (Chapter 10, Blogging to Learn, Learning to Blog). Among other things, she is discussing information literacies, or as she says "...literacies that are appropriate to networked, technological environments...essential kinds of information lietracy, extending well beyond '

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