by Derek Morrison, 25 September 2009 There! … Even in the title of this posting I’ve added my six pence (cents) worth to the concerns of those becoming exercised by the unchallenged assumption that “technologies + learning = good thing” In my posting J.G.Ballard on the dangers of “inner space†(Auricle, 27 September 2009) I […]
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Biting the WebCT bullet?
February 12th, 2006
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It’s sometimes useful to sample the business perspective on the proprietary VLE world. Take for instance Business Week’s analysis of Blackboard’s financial health (7 Feb 2006). This is a world away from the concerns of those actually using these products, but such analyses provide an essential reminder why these products exist, and sometimes cease to […]
Collective Intelligence in a Corporate Higher Education Setting?
November 30th, 2005
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Collective intelligence. What’s that? An abstraction for sure, but it manifests itself more concretely when communities of users voluntarily engage with a site and system because they feel a sense of ownership and value in taking part. As a result such a site and system grows organically. The ‘product’ become the collective activity of the […]
E-learning industrialization - will the 'customers' like it?
November 13th, 2005
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Contemplate this statement: Media has taken over some of the teaching that normally society would have provided. And technology has driven that; it has been the conduit. Download article as PDF
Innovations in the Reuse of Electronic Learning Materials - drivers and challenges
October 5th, 2005
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I presented an opening keynote at the Open University Business School on Friday (23 September 2005) for the Cambridge-MIT Institute�s conference Innovations in the Reuse of Electronic Learning Materials: Enabling Communities of Practice. I had my Higher Education Academy hat on, but given the conference theme and the aim of the keynote to stimulate reflection […]
Keeping it simple - is it too late?
July 27th, 2005
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In today's post I'm back to the theme of let's create/exploit really simple learning support solutions instead of endlessly trying to lock ourselves to increasingly complex multifunction 'managed' learning environments whose inevitable bias always ends up more towards the 'managed' than the 'learning'. Regular readers will know that since the inception of Auricle I've tried […]
Be afraid … be very afraid! (2)
April 13th, 2005
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The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (subscription service) report on Implications of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems for Universities: An analysis of Benefits and Risks has just been released (issue 30, April 2005) and it needs to go straight on to the essential reading list. The authors Neil Pollock, University of Edinburgh and James Cornford, University […]
