In response to a post I made on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Tony Karrer recommended that I look at his post on Personal Learning for Learning Professionals. This had me review my posts on PKM and reflect on how I go through my process of triage. As a result, I created this picture.
I’m starting to [...]
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I was digging through some old files on CD and came across a report that I did when I worked at the now defunct Centre for Learning Technologies at Mount Allison University. It was called The Design, Development and Delivery of Internet Based Training and Education, dated March 28, 2000. I had worked on that [...]
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The Summer is almost over and soon the kids go back to school. Usually my business picks up in September, once vacations are over and most people are back to work.
This year I don’t have any major projects scheduled for the Fall; which is not good from a financial perspective but it does mean that [...]
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Alfred Essa asked this question on my post, Blackboard Sues D2L over LMS Patent:
I am not sure where Jarche gets the notion that Elgg Learning Landscape is “not affected by the current Blackboard LMS patent suit.†As I noted in a recent posting, “Blackboard’s “invention†describes a generic learning system and a corresponding set of [...]
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In re-reading Dave Pollard’s post on personal knowledge management (PKM) I noticed some parallels with the field of online learning. Dave states that:
And although technology companies, by coopting the term Knowledge Management and making it synonymous with centralized content management, have played a role in tarnishing KM’s image, some technology companies are now developing simple, [...]
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I know that this is old news, but I’m sure that there are many people outside the local area who don’t know that Canada’s National Research Council has given up on e-learning as an area of focus (even though it’s still listed on their website).
I was involved in some of the early round table discussions [...]
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The New York Times reports [why do they require a login?] that towns around colleges are just as important as the colleges themselves in attracting faculty and students:
Colleges have traditionally tempted top students with ivy-covered campuses, towering Gothic buildings and up-to-date student centers. But nowadays, there is a sense that a beautiful campus is not [...]
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There is much discussion about Blackboard’s recent suit against Desire2Learn for allegedly infringing on learning management system patents, such as Stephen Downes’ aggregated links and Dave Cormier’s commentary.
This post from Oligopoly Watch, not related to Blackboard, explains the nature of the beast and shows once again that corporatism is the enemy of a free and [...]
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I’m working on an introductory piece (about 2 printed pages) for people who know nothing about the Commons. My aim is to explain enough so that people are interested and will ask more questions. Feedback is always appreciated.
Our Commons
For a long period of time, human economic development was tied to the land. The elites owned [...]
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Read/Write Web has a good overview of Elgg Learning landscape and an interview with Dave and Ben, the co-founders. [I had mentioned that I believe that Elgg is one of the few online learning systems that is not affected by the current Blackboard LMS patent suit, though there are other Blackboard patents that may be [...]
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