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...
View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleInternational 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...
View ArticleStarting 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleReturning 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...
View ArticleEARLI 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...
View ArticleResearch 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...
View ArticleTestrunning 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...
View ArticleOur 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...
View ArticleTinkering 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...
View ArticleDidactic 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...
View ArticleOn “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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