Rowland’s Blog about e-learning matters

First thing tomorrow morning I am off to give a session at the SEDA conference. I suspect that there will be no access to the Internet at the conference so it will be either find an internet cafe or not blog for a couple of days.
My session is exploring whether e-learning can help to imprive [...]

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I have just found the blog amalgamation software at suprglu. I am using it at the moment in experimental mode just to amalgamate some of my blogs. However I wonder whether it might be a useful tool to use with students in a module. If each student had a module blog which was amalgamated using [...]

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As I am running a session at the SEDA conference to explore people’s conceptions of whether e-learning can help to promote good pedagogy I thought I would ask the question on an educational mail list to which I belong.
There have not been a lot of reponses as yet but it seems that I have [...]

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I am leading a session at the SEDA conference next week about whether e-learning encourages good pedagogy and this made me think about what I was going to say to the group in the way of introduction. So I thought I would try out some ideas here.
I am Director of the Learning and Teaching Centre [...]

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I have just come across James Farmer’s post on his weblog about his submission for ASCILITE 2005. Apart from being a very useful and interesting article in its own right it has some excellent links to further information about e-learning and blogging. I am creating a reference here so that I can go back a [...]

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I was looking at Chickering and Ehrmann’s paper IMPLEMENTING “THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES: Technology as Lever” and wondering how well it ties in with the concepts of e-learning 2.0.
Good practice:
Encourages Contacts Between Students and Faculty
Develops Reciprocity and Cooperation Among Students
Uses Active Learning Techniques
Gives Prompt Feedback
Emphasizes Time on [...]

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I have just been taking a look at George Siemens ideas about connectivism on his blog. There are some interesting ideas here about the way that peolpe are perceived to learn. I particularly like the idea of giving each student a blog which is aggregated with something like bloglines so the the tutor can see [...]

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According to Stephen Downes e-learning 2.0 is all about the learners developing their own ideas from a variety of sources and sharing ideas in a community of learners. Learners will take charge of their own learning using such tools as blogs, wikis and podcasts. No longer will a tutor set up an e-learning course with [...]

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I have been thinking about the relationship between a blog, a wiki, and a set of web pages.
It seems to me that I might use them in the following way:

blog: to be used for brief reflections and reflecting upon action and ideas.
wiki: to be used to expand these ideas and work on a more detailed [...]

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There seems to be some confusion about the meaning of the term “blended Learning”.
Possible alternatives include:

learning that includes more than one mode e.g. face to face and distance learning
learning that includes more than one technology e.g. printed material and on-line learning but at different times
learning that includes more than one mode or [...]

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