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Could blogging be seen as a scholarly activity?

Blogging developed alongside the web in the mid 1990s and has its routes in keeping a diary, or a writer’s journal, even notes kept by students.

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Someone who correctly sensed what was coming in 2004 might be a person to ask what is due in 2013/1014

In this paper from Grainne Conole she says (writing in 2003, published 2004) that wireless, smart and wifi will have a huge impact … prescient. Can you remember how little of what we now take for granted was around in 2004?

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Posted in Blogging, E-Learning, Learning, MA in Open & Distance Education

Self and Peer Grading on Student Learning – Dr. Daphne Koller

Self and Peer Grading on Student Learning – Dr. Daphne Koller

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Posted in E-Learning, Innovations, Learning Design, e-Assessment, Tertiary Education, Memory, Learning, Team Building, The Open University, Retention, Scaffolding, PhD, Research

The spoken word is crucial to understanding.

The spoken word is crucial to understanding – Marshall McLuhan, Karl Popper, William Shakespeare, E-learning, education, spoken word, written word, language, communication, technology, innovations.

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Posted in Blogging, Communications, E-Learning, Innovations, Leadership, Learning, Life, Metaphor, Mind Bursts, Tertiary Education, The Open University

The Gutenberg Galaxy – first thoughts, from the first pages

Fig. 1. The Gutenberg Galaxy – Marshall McLuhan (courtesy of Amazon and a US bookseller) Like visiting a library, having a book as an object in my hand, a singular artifact rather than its substance digitised, feels like a visit

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Posted in Communications, Learning, Life, Metaphor, Reading, Tertiary Education, Visualization, Words, Writing

Way was, way is, way will be – Webs 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0

Way was, way is, way will be – Webs 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0

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Posted in E-Learning, e-Portfolio, Frustrated Creative, Innovations, Learning, Life, MA in Open & Distance Education, Memory, Metaphor, Neuroscience, Visualization, Writing

How more deeply embedded is a visual memory if you crafted the drawing or painting that is the catalyst for its recall.

Fig.1. Hockney on iPad. Now here’s a lifelog to treasure. How does the master i-paint? If a moment is to be captured, maybe David Hockney has the answer with a iBrush painting on an iPad. This is closer to the

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