The purpose of education is: “To teach you stuff, so when you grow up you know what to do and everything! You wouldn’t be able to read and write and do stuff like that.” This was the quite succinct response to the question offered by my ten year old son and on reflection I’m not […]
Reviewing the future for Leap2
The Leap2A review report has now been published. It is available along with other relevant materials from the e-Portfolio interoperability JISC page. For anyone following the fortunes of Leap2A, it is highly worthwhile reading. I’d like to take up some unasked questions, with implications for the future direction of Leap2 more generally.
VLE commodification is complete as Blackboard starts supporting Moodle and Sakai
Unthinkable a couple of years ago, and it still feels a bit April 1st: Blackboard has taken over the Moodlerooms and NetSpot Moodle support companies in the US and Australia. Arguably as important is that they have also taken on Sakai and IMS luminary Charles Severance to head up Sakai development within Blackboard’s new Open Source Services department. The life of the Angel VLE Blackboard acquired a while ago has also been extended.
What are we writing about? Using CETIS Publications RSS in R
I have been poking around Adam Coopers text mining weak signals in R code, and being too lazy to collect data in CSV format wondered if I could come up with something similar that used RSS feeds. I discovered it was really easy to read and start to mine RSS feeds in R, but there […]
Question and Test tools demonstrate interoperability
As the QTI 2.1 specification gets ready for final release, and new communities start picking it up, conforming tools demonstrated their interoperability at the JISC – CETIS 2012 conference.
“Open Higher Education”, a scenario from the TEL-Map UK HE cluster
At the “Emerging Reality: Making sense new models of learning organisation” workshop at the CETIS conference 2012, Bill Olivier from Institute of Educational Cybernetics at the University of Bolton presented a scenario of “ Open Higher Education” which was developed by a group of participants from the UK HE sector. Having been involved in the […]
Storify of Keynotes at #cetis12
I used storify to crowd source a view of the keynote presentations from #cetis12.
Here it is:
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SNA session at CETIS 12
I attended the SNA session at the CETIS conference hosted by Lorna, Sheila, Tony and Martin. Before the session I had blogged about some of the questions I had on SNA and although I think I have more new questions than answers I feel like things are much clearer now. My mind is still going […]
Games animals play
Play is an important part of animal development, as with child development: animals learn to hunt and fight just as children learn to perform tasks and socialise. And as with humans, animal play isn’t just limited to learning for future survival, but is a valuable part of day-to-day wellbeing. Providing adequate mental stimulation and engagement […]
A wordle for technologies in 2012
This wordle was generated from texts abstracted from mentions of key technologies in a collection of more than 20 articles and blogs on technology predictions for 2012, which I gathered through Google search recently. These predictions were produced mainly by individuals and organisations from the IT and business sectors. First, I extracted the main topics […]