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Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning

September 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Billed as “a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities”, this handbook written by George Siemens and Peter Tittenberger at the University of Manitoba,  is a lot more than this. It starts from the premise that Higher Education, whether individual institutions know it or not, is in the midst [...]

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Tags: Learning · Technology · Transformation · Web 2.0 · change · changing culture · connectivity · social · teaching · tools · wiki · wikipedia

Will Richardson Keynote Presentation

October 4th, 2007 · No Comments

A really great presentation by Will Richardson describing where our students are coming from, how they are living there lives with the technology and how we need to be looking at the pedagogies we use as teachers and asking ourselves how relevant they really are.
4 questions you should ask yourself as a teacher:
1. What are [...]

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Tags: Learning · Technology · Web 2.0 · changing culture · podcast · social network · wiki · wikipedia

Moving things on – replacing a static Intranet with a wiki

August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Nathan Wallace describes in a recent blog posting how his organisation changed the culture of the company by moving away from a traditional, static Intranet site to a wiki. In doing so, they were able to transform communication, information flow and knowledge management within the organisation.
The success of the project was due partly to [...]

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Tags: Technology · changing culture · wiki