by Derek Morrison, 1 October 2008 The CETIS team offer us a rich menu of blogs to choose from. For example, Rowin Young’s blog offers us the insight below from his reading of the 2008 UCISA survey into Technology Enhanced Learning. “The statistics for VLE use within institutions are of particular interest. In response to […]
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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 […]
Storm Clouds?
September 9th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 9 September 2008 (addendum added 26 September 2008) The recent release of Google’s Chrome is not intended to offer just another web browser to a marketplace already largely segmented by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, or the eponymous Opera (plus a few other more minor players). No, Chrome is meant to advance […]
Third Life – Auricle: the next generation
September 3rd, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 3 September 2008 Over on the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) site there’s a posting entitled Auricle: The Case Of The Disappearing E-learning Blog (1 September 2008). Yes, that’s right this blog is the ‘disappeared’. While it’s a new experience becoming such a case study the author, Brian Kelly certainly raises some […]
The new ebook killer device?
November 22nd, 2007
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So Amazon enters the ebook fray with its new paperback sized Kindle ebook device. There’s plenty of media coverage on this with arguably the best of these being the Guardian’s Paperback to the Future (Guardian 22 Nov 2007). But despite some interesting features its the same old “lock em in” model at work here with […]
A walk in the software patent forest – Part 1
January 2nd, 2007
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I haven’t being paying as much attention to Auricle as I would like to. My excuse is I’m contributing to and managing a series of other blogs and wikis for my work with the Higher Education Academy, e.g. the Benchmarking of e-Learning Exercise, and the Pathfinder Programme. Today, however, I thought that I would stand […]
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 […]
The digital TV/video promise – more, bigger, and better – but do we want it?
March 15th, 2006
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In this fairly long post I twist and turn my way through some of the alleyways relating to the user experience of the digital television and video revolution that seems intent on impacting upon as all. Some alleys will be cul-de-sacs and some will have deep holes to fall into. Some alleys will be dressed […]
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 […]
The online ‘filling station’ model of e-learning revisited
February 12th, 2006
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Way back in November 2004 my Auricle posting A filling station model of e-learning? proposed that, instead of the institutional monolithic model of e-learning, we need to think in terms of: … an emergent model in which various sites on the internet become almost like resource ‘filling stations’ for mobile multi-function devices. Sony’s latest gizmo […]
