Netvibes

November 21, 2006

At our conference session one of the many topics we covered was aggregation. Brian Kelly recommended an aggregtor called netvibes. I’ve been having a play with it this morning and it seems pretty cool. I’ve got feeds from all the CETIS blogs now on it and links to del.icio.us, flickr, the weather [...]

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Common cartridge - the future or five years too late?

November 20, 2006

A large part of the recent IMS quarterly meeting in Heerlen was devoted to their new Common Cartridge specification. Heavily backed by publishers and vendors (including Pearson, McGraw Hill, Thompson, Angel, Sakai,Desire2Learn and Blackboard to name a few) this specification claims to “define a commonly supported content format, able to run on any [...]

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Learners Experiences of e-Learning projects - update @ e-pedagogy experts meeting

November 2, 2006

An overview for the ‘understanding my learning’ (the learners experience of e-learning projects) was presented at the recent e-pedagogy experts meeting by Greg Benfield and Ellen Lessner of the support project from this strand of the pedagogy programme.
As part of the synthesis of the projects, a number of guides have been produced for learners, [...]

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Inspirational -v- runnable designs - some thoughts from d4l meetings last week

November 1, 2006

The latest JISC epedagogy experts forum meeting took place in Birmingham last week, 26th October and included sessions from three of the projects in the current design for learning programme. (As you know we are providing the support project for this programme.) The projects involved were Mod4l, Pheobe and User-oriented Planner for Learning [...]

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