The European Commission supported ReVICa (Reviewing European Virtual Campuses) Project has recently published the book Reviewing the Virtual Campus Phenomenon: The Rise of large-scale e-Learning Initiatives Worldwide. The book provides a glimpse into global managed initiatives that seek to transcend the walls of physical institutions in order to realise a lifelong learning and skills agenda. […]
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Transforming Higher Education Through Technology Enhanced Learning book – downloads and chapter visualisations
January 14th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 14 January 2010 Tag clouds (or weighted lists) provide a visualisation of a word’s frequency in a document. As well as providing an aesthetic and navigation artefact for web sites they may also provide useful meta information about the relative emphases in the content of a document, e.g. the textual analysis of […]
Google as the digital ‘Library of Alexandria’?
November 3rd, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 3 November 2009 There’s an interesting On the Media item called The Infinite Shelf (27 March 2009) about Google’s vision of creating the digital equivalent of the Library of Alexandria. I think it’s well worth listening to the MP3 download of this interview with Harvard’s Robert Darnton author of Google & the […]
Books are a networked object?
July 6th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 6 July 2009 There was a most interesting feature about the Open Library initiative titled The Library that Never Closes in last week’s Guardian (2 July 2009) which I think is worth reading. Here’s a few snippets to encourage you to read the full article. “Imagine books more as a networked object, […]
You take the high road …
September 24th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 24 September 2008 Reflecting Education Vol 4, No 1 (2008) ‘From Pedagogic Research to Embedded E-Learning’, contains articles by three Pathfinder projects, i.e. Leicester, Hertfordshire, and the Institute of Education plus a context-setting article by Terry Mayes and myself. Download article as PDF
