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Joachim Niemeier - The Importance of User Experience - 7 Days and More
Nice diagram reflecting the importance of user experience with respect to brand perception and reputation. [Link] [Tags: Brands and Branding, Experience] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Terry Anderson - PLE's Getting Fleshed Out (conceptually) and COI Model - Virtual Canuck
Terry Anderson takes note of my reworking of the Community of Inquiry Model - "Stephen provides the first major edits to the model in 5 years" - and adds his comments. While he appears to accept my characterization of three types of "networks" he is less enthusiastic about my rewriting of 'learning experience' as 'self'. "I don't have any problems seeing the individual at the centre of the community, but I'm not sure it really helps us to focus on the networked social learning that the model is designed to inspire and measure." [OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Barbara Ganley - The Question of Teacher Roles in Blogging-yet-Traditional Classrooms - bgblogging
I from time to time consider myself as a teacher. I have no formal class or curriculum, but would want it no other way. Now, were my teaching to consist only of the talks I give on occasion, it would not be very effective; it would be empty lecturing, the sage on the stage. What makes my talks worthwhile (at least in my view) is that they are the punctuation marks that characterize a wider practice. My work, writing and activities to constitute the bulk of my teaching. Now it is in this context I look at the suggestion that a teacher ought to withdraw, so as not to impose their authority over From OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Mark Oehlert - Gliffy: Your Web-based Visio-like Diagram Creator....Free - E-Clippings
Another nifty web-based application: Gliffy, a Web-based diagramming tool. "This is actually a pretty neat tool (I still struggle with calling it that since in that Web 2.0 way, it is really a Web site and a tool) that allows you to do all manner of diagram creation from a floor plan (Download gliffy_large.jpg) to network charts to crafting the UI for a site of an app." [Link] [Tags: Networks, OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Scott Wilson - Web services/web 2.0 and e-learning - Scott's Workblog
This is a pretty good presentation explaining the appeal of a Web 2.0 approach to e-learning (though I am less complacent about how well the enterprise will fit into the picture). Many of the images, though, could not be viewed - all I saw was a note saying 'Quicktime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture.' It is this sort of thing that has always annoyed me about Quicktime, and I wish people wouldn't use such proprietary technology (this applies to most stuff from Apple). [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Douglas Coupland - High School Confidential - The Walrus
Douglas Coupland's recollections of high school are similar to my own. This says a lot, I guess, about both of us. [Link] [Tags: Schools] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Michael Feldstein - Conversations About Learning Design - E-Literate
The Sakai pedagogy discussion list tends to be, as Michael Feldstein reports, "technologist-heavy and teacher-light." So he posed some questions from the Sakai discussion list on when (and if) learning design is appropriate to the LAMS discussion list. Worth a read, especially for the longish responses from James Dalziel. And where can we read the Sakai discussion. Alas, we can't. Perhaps that explains why the Sakai discussions are "technologist-heavy and teacher-light." [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Julie Lindsay - Blogging and Podcasting NECC - eLearning Blog
The bloggers are organizing themselves prior to the upcoming NECC conference in San Diego. This is quite an impressive array and included several bloggers who are new to me. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Roger Hiemstra and Ralph G. Brockett - From behaviorism to humanism: Incorporating Self-Direction in Learning Concepts Into the Instructional Design Process - New Ideas About Self-directed Learning
Cited this week in DEOS by Gail Taylor, this paper from 1994 discussing self-directed learning and its origins in humanist philosophy is well worth a review. The humanist tradition, characterized in contrast to positivist and empirical approaches to learning, is based in rationalist and Platonic thought, characterized by reference to phenomenonogy and self-actualization, and is found in thinkers such as Piaget and Gagne. For me this was an interesting read because my philosophical roots are in the empiricist tradition (though solidly post-positivist) and yet my own approach has a great deal in From OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Lois Romano - More Students Pursue Degrees Online - Washington Post
From the article: "Online enrollment jumped from 1.98 million in 2003 to 2.35 million the following year, accounting for 7 percent of postsecondary education, according to Eduventures, a Boston firm that studies trends in education." I love the openly biased journalism in the second half of the story as the author cites unnamed "critics" to slam online learning, says obliquely that recently closed e-universities "did not offer what some students wanted" and then (blatantly falsely) asserts that "most elite schools have looked down their noses at online degrees." Amazing. But we're suppose From OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jon Boone - Royal Society Tests Free Access to Papers - Financial Times
I covered some of the discussions around this late last year (here and here) and so am very pleased to report this turn of events. "The world's oldest learned society will today tear up its 340-year-old business model with the launch of an "open access" journal allowing people to read its new scientific papers free of charge... it will allow authors to pay for costs of publication themselves." [Link] From OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - CCL Conference on Adult Learning - Stephen's Web
I am at the Canadian Council on Learning conference on adult education in Fredericton. Though I had expected this would be much more management and administration focused than it was, I found it to be a refreshing blend of adult educators and academic working for change. This to me was a very welcome delevopment, as it represents a broad resistance against the idea of learning as commodity, something that can be sliced and diced and measured and sold by the seat-hour to the developing world (whee, I'm all activisty now). I blogged the keynote address by Maude Barlow and four ses From OLDaily on June 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..