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Knowing Knowledge Wiki

May 12th, 2007 · No Comments

In a previous post back in January, I mentioned George Siemens’ recent book Knowing Knowledge and the associated wiki. The book has been named as one of the best 20 business books of 2006 by Dave Pollard in his “How to save the world” blog.
The wiki continues to develop with regular changes being made and [...]

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Shock of the Social Conference - Oxford (22/03/07)

March 28th, 2007 · No Comments

This was an excellent conference - well organised, good venue and interesting speakers (mostly!), but not very shocking. It was the 6th in a series of the Shock of the Old Conferences, organised by the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University. designed to look at the impact of ICT on teaching and learning.
The theme of [...]

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Knowing Knowledge

January 8th, 2007 · No Comments

George Siemens’ new book is available for purchase on Amazon and Lulu. It is also available as a PDF download. Images from the book are also available through a Flickr photoset. The whole book is also available as a wiki which readers can freely edit.
The book is in 2 sections. In section [...]

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