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Working on “Modeling the personal adult learner: the concept of PLE...

Finally, we received the review comments for our text on “Modeling the personal adult learner: the concept of PLE re-interpreted”. The final version of this text will go into G. Siemens, S. Downes...

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Open course on Personal Learning Environments, Networks and Knowledge kicks off

Yesterday George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop and Dave Cormier kicked off their open course on Personal Learning Environments, Networks and Knowledge – PLENK2010. The current list of registered...

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International ISO standards on human system interaction are changing

This is probably old news for the professional usability crowd. However, I have recently re-visited a number of ISO standards that I made use of within my earlier consulting work on human-centered...

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Starting my research sabbatical

I am finally out of project work and will dedicate the next 12 months to reading, thinking, and writing. Enough of EU funded R&D for a while! It was really about time to re-focus on my personal...

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Is there a new (media-)historical type of learning emerging?

In my recent live presentation/session for PLENK2010 I was trying to argue that if we want to get any further with the notion of Personal Learning Environments (PLE), we need to stop staring...

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Returning to Athens, Georgia

In July I managed to re-vist Athens, Georgia, where I worked and studied at The University of Georgia from August 1998 to May 2000. It was a great opportunity for an occasional “walk down memory...

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Sail your ship

Kalamaja Sadam, Tallinn

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EARLI 2013 conference – August 27-31, 2013 – Munich, Germany

The conference theme responsible teaching and sustainable learning focuses on elementary issues that educational researchers investigate. Besides, it picks up EARLI’s twofold mission in researching...

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Research collaboration is taking shape

Since March I have engaged in a series of conversations with Dr. Emanuele Bardone. Apart from some obvious similarities in our current set up (we both hold postdoctoral Research Fellowships at Tallinn...

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Testrunning the Fargo outliner

I am playing around with the Fargo outliner. Apparently it can be used to interface with WordPress sites. I have always liked to do structured writing in outliners. Especially for Web publishing. The...

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Our first in-house conference at HUL

On Thursday and Friday (08.09 and 09.09.2016) we held our first in-house conference at the Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning (HUL) in collaboration with researchers from the...

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On the questionable aesthetics of large research conferences

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Tinkering with a Makey Makey kit

A week ago I finally got a chance to start fooling around and tinkering with a Makey Makey kit which its makers describe with the following words: “Makey Makey is an invention kit for the 21st...

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Didactic theorising and self-education

My main problem with all of the “didactic” theorising is that “auto-didactic” learning is never really on that screen. It is not part of the analysis. It is simply ignored. As if it was something...

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On “learning” as an explanatory principle

In a recent post titled A logic of learning Mark W. Johnson (University of Liverpool, UK) ends his deliberations with the following paragraph: So whilst we might not (and cannot) agree about what...

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