March 16, 2010
My colleagues Sheila and Wilbert have developed five conceptual models of Distributed Learning Environment (DLE) for institutions. In the briefing paper, they discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each model and provide some examples of current applications. This timely work should be really valuable in helping institutions and educators to rethink how VLE and [...]
October 23, 2009
The Widgets Working Group gathered in London last week to share ideas and their work on developing widgets infrastructure for teaching and learning. Following the introduction to the day by Wilbert Kraan, our first speaker, Ross Gardler from the JISC OSS watch and Apache Software Foundation gave a brief overview of the Foundation’s developments and [...]
February 4, 2009
After the widgets working group meeting last week, I started to look at how widgets have been or might be used by educators and learners to support teaching and learning practices. Unsurprisingly, initial searching via Google brought me a number of articles and web links about using widgets in education. What was most interesting to [...]
