Rowland’s Blog about e-learning matters

I have been following a number of the stories about wikipedia and the idea that some people seem to have that we should get all of out information vetted by “experts” before we read it. This is clearly not workable for a variety of reasons, not least that even “experts” get it wrong.
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Had my attention drawn to an article by Stephen Downes which gave an extensive introduction to connective knowledge. It was very long and I can’t say I understood all of it but I found it thought provoking so I am making a note here to allow me to go back and read it again. I [...]

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I have just taken a look at the blog of proximal development and read an interesting blog about the impact on students of having a blog taken away. It also mentioned a piece of open source blog software that might be worth a look. [Though not if you are in France ]
I have also [...]

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Found some interesting information on Josie’s blog about the Learner’s Charter for a personalised learning environment which is a publication from Nesta Futurelab.
There is some excellent discussion here about how things might go if learner’s are given a flexible and personalised learning environment to work with rather than the manager centred systems that we [...]

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Things have been very hectic since I went to the conference and this is the first time I have had to write on this blog. My session seemed to go well and I had some positive feedback from a number of participants. Every body had an opportunity to discuss possible advantages of e-learning but the [...]

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