by Derek Morrison, 21 October 2008 Zoe Corbyn’s article By the blog: academics tread carefully (Times Higher Education, 9 October 2008) was a good broad sweep of scholarly blogging and has generated some interesting commentary. Brian Kelly from JISC/MLA’s Web Focus service had referred Zoe to me as one example of a long term HE […]
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eBooks and the e-learning ‘filling station’ revisited
September 25th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 25 September 2008 (addendum added 26 September 2008, Plastic Logic update 19 February 2009) In my November 2004 Auricle post A ‘filling station’ model of e-learning? I posited a ‘filling station’ view of e-learning which was at variance with the then dominant VLE view of the online learning world. I reflected on […]
Psst … want to ‘see’ a good podcast?
June 15th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 15 June 2008 The Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes (PPP) SIG is one of the five Pathfinder Network Projects. I participated in the well-attended third face-to-face event at the Warrington campus of the University of Chester on Wednesday (11 June 2008). Particular respect is due to the SIG for including a delegation of […]
Whose PLE is it anyway?
June 2nd, 2006
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I assume it’s because I’ve waxed lyrical about related matters in Auricle and various conference presentations that I’ve been asked by the CETIS Personal Learning Environment Experts Group to contribute my ‘position’ on Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). Although I’m wary of accepting the mantle of ‘expert’ – there are none in this area – I […]
