Presentations are now available online from this recent conference. Some really good stuff here (and some that is disappointing). I wish conferences like this would post audio recordings or transcripts. Some of the presentations I liked include: Candace Thille on cognitively informed web-based instruction (I disagree with the analysis, but not with the intent); Don Tapscott, who in addition to his usual n-gen perspective comes out in favour of open content; John Daniel, who also advocated open content, sort of; and Jeff Zabudsky, who walks a fine line between advocating something useful and taking a traditionalist approach. The rest were, well, disappointing. It's the same old line: let's create a website, let's have a consortium, let's coordinate from the top, let's link our repositories (and what, keep the poor people out?), let's say we're "research-based" (and back it up with surveys of 31 people, half of them managers), let's attend to the 'economics' and the 'business' of learning, let's make Mongolia a "knowledge-based society", let's focus on ROI and the digital dividend, let's educate people on copyright, let's train workers.
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