First, last week's survey results have been interesting. We were informed that no tick-box was provided for "none of the above". Apparently, many of us have yet to explore the wonders of Web2.0 as educational tools! I feel this is certainly an area that we'll revisit in the future, and we'll organise a Webinar soon, featuring the use of Blogs, etc. in teaching and learning. But the results did show that Blogs are most popular. Contact me if you have anything that would be a good case study (Barry Spencer's Blogspot has some interesting work).
Second, UMB noted with interest Gordon Brown's speech featuring 'Personalisation'. Like several others, we thought it resembled ideas from work that RSC London Moodle group has been doing over the last year or so. Some suggested that one can also find hints of Clinton too: http://www.hindu.com but I don't remember inviting him along to our Moodle RUGs.
Seriously though, I'm very interested in how learning providers can express and/or represent 'personalisation'. Perhaps we have to look to the work being done with Blogs, social networking tools, and the ILP's etc. (Like Barry, or ULCC). Certainly we see anecdotal evidence at least suggesting that learners are more engaged and in touch with their learning, meaning that they are somewhat controlling when, where and how the learning takes place - discuss? See you next week.
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Would also be interested to see how Web 2 and other such may be used with adult learners on short and very short programmes (6 weeks or less)
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