Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

Published date January 24, 2005 Categories Teaching

George Siemens writing in the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning concludes: A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application. When knowledge, however, is needed, but not known, the ability to plug into sources to meet the requirements becomes a vital skill. As knowledge continues to grow and evolve,...

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Un-Managing Learning Management Systems – A possible future for online learning

Published date January 21, 2005 Categories Research

James Farmer at incorporated subversion picks up on Scott Wilson’s piece on the future of the VLE and writes: Take, for example, a typical tertiary student. In any one semester they may well be enrolled in four units each with an online presence each lasting effectively 13-14 weeks… now if each unit has a community and you ask that student...

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Aggregation will be rough on Learning Management Systems

Published date January 20, 2005 Categories Research

Peter Sefton comments on some of the material I have been reading lately: I think that one of the pressures on current LMSs will be from the aggregator. An aggregator is a leveling technology that can pull all the stuff in which you are interested into a common interface; sort of a do it yourself ‘portal’ without the stupid little...

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Big week in the media

Published date January 27, 2004 Categories Blog

I don’t often figure in the media, local or otherwise, so last week was unusual in that respect. I managed to participate in a brief interview on the local ABC breakfast show and to be quoted in the weekend edition of the Sydney Morning Herald. About 2 weeks ago Gus Snow-McLean, USQ PR manager, emailed to say that an SMH...

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Why DrAlb?

Published date January 21, 2004 Categories Blog

For as long as I can recall I have walked quickly. It probably has to do with a certain impatience and a preference for being in one location or another rather than somewhere between. Sometime in my first few years of teaching high school, students observed my speed walking and nicknamed me “Stralb” – a contraction of Mister Albion. I...

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