I have just come across this discussion on Donald Clark’s blog – ‘7 reasons’ why I don’t want my life in a shoebox’. Like Sarah Stewart, I have some sympathy with this post. I have felt ambivalent about e-portfolios ever since becoming aware of them for the first time a number of years ago when [...]
Archive for April, 2011
e-Portfolios and learner autonomy
Posted in eLearning, tagged autonomy, e-portfolio, eLearning, learning, teaching on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
21st century will be the century of identity
Posted in Communities of practice, Networked Learning, Research, tagged communities of practice, community, EtienneWenger, Wenger on April 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
There was a lot in Etienne’s talk to the Lancaster University teaching and learning forum today. The title was ‘Learning in and across the Landscape of Practice’ in which Etienne talked about the multitude of communities of practice which we all come into contact with – a landscape of communities – and how the world [...]
Learning in and across landscapes of practice
Posted in Communities of practice, tagged community, learning, Wenger on April 2, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Learning in and across landscapes of practice – this is the title of a talk that Etienne Wenger will give at Lancaster University, UK, next Tuesday5th April, between 15.00 and 16.45 GMT. Here is Etienne’s abstract for the talk. The human world can be viewed as a huge collection of communities of practice-some very prominent [...]

