http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org Supporting the Users and Innovation Programme Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:01:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in May I wrote, with Dave Cormier and Mark Stiles an article for Educational Developments entitled "Reflecting on the Virtual Learning Systems - extinction or evolution?"; on Friday, we three, present on a panel session about our views and conclusions at the Altered States (online) conference, along with Blackboard ... http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2008/11/26/what-future-for-the-vle/ Building 21st Century Learning Environments, John Hickey, Apple Where we need to go - evolution of education Student as both consumer and producer. Disconnected in an interconnected world Students say that going into class is like taking a flight, they have to switch things off and cannot access the outside world. Students expect an interconnected ... http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/03/fote-2008-final-session/ Mile Metcalfe, Ravensbourne Miles started by discussing the college's move to Greenwich. The innovative ideas for ICT include: Flexible Learnings Spaces (you had to hear the visualisation) Serendipitous Commons Subsidise personal technology high end reources integrated with user owned workflows Software as a service (google),  opensource alternatives to 'money grabbing' proprietory systems The curse of the Mobile ... http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/03/fote2008-3rd-session/ Mobile technology, Harold ? Not quite sure what is being said other than it's been suggested that we revisit Vygotsky and apply it to the use of mobile technology in learning and teaching. He asserts that education 'will' move toward a more consumerist based economy, and that the customer choice will ... http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/03/fote2008-2nd-session-ian-forresster-bbc-ian-broad-yahoo-phil-butler-ulcc/ Here at FOTE (Future OF Technology in Education) 2008, Welcome from Tim Bush (organised the event) and David Rippon the Director of ULCC. Sam Peters from Google What's driving cloud computing: Falling cost of storage Ubiquitous Computing Democratisation of production "We're all part of the revolution" Sam described how the previous technology paradigm was focused on products ... http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/03/fote-2008-1st-session-google-and-second-life/ A QR (quick response) code is a two dimensional bar code that can be read on a mobile device, such as a camera phone. Once the device decodes the information then it will enable an action to be undertaken. For instance, this might be accessing a web page, displaying text ... http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2008/09/17/qr-codes-in-education-watch-this-space/ "Imagine an organisation where users are free to describe the content they create as they see fit. Where they help decide the retention and disposal of every record that they create or use, based on how useful and valuable they deem it to be. Where, based on a combination of ... http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2008/08/11/managing-the-crowd/ This is a bit of an indulgence posting on my part, a few short reflections on the JISC Innovation Forum 2008. The sessions that I attended were excellent, and the diversity on show really made me think hard about what we do as the larger JISC Innovation Group. The really ... http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/21/reflecting-on-jif08/ There's a nice debate going on out there, this posting is just my own perspective and a signpost, if you want to engage more fully take a wander over to the funnymonkey posting and follow the trail. “Punk-related ideologies are mostly concerned with individual freedom.” Looking at the wikipedia entry for punk ... http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/24/edupunk/ Today I’m at the Solstice conference, this is now an annual e-learning conference, but creating a lot deeper thinking spaces for people to engage in discourse. The event is usually preceded by a research panel session and this helps to frame the discussions in the main conference. There were a lot ... http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/05/solstice-2008-and-exit-strategies-for-vles/