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Archive for May, 2011

Well – I can give BBB the thumbs up. We had an enjoyable, informative and stimulating webinar today. That’s not to say that there weren’t things that BBB and presenters in BBB need to think about. I am used to Elluminate and missed some of the functionality of Elluminate – but not a lot. Three [...]

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A new article by Etienne Wenger, Beverley Trayner and Martin de Laat has just been linked to on Etienne’s Facebook page. Wenger, E., Trayner, B. & de Laat, M. (2011). Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks : a conceptual framework. Centrum. http://www.social-learning-strategies.com/documents/Wenger_Trayner_DeLaat_Value_creation.pdf This is very timely given the online course about communities [...]

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Next week (May 18th 2011) I will be working with a team, George Roberts, Rhona Sharpe, Joe Rosa (from Oxford Brookes University) and Andy Coverdale (University of Nottingham) to present a one day online course bearing the title – Benefits and challenges of communities of practice in HE http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/webinars/communities_practice/index.html This will be interesting because I [...]

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There’s an interesting discussion on George Siemen’s blog about the problem with literature reviews – http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2011/05/01/the-problem-with-literature-reviews/#comments As we have seen from the comments on his blog post, anyone who has had to write a Masters or PhD dissertation recognises the problem. Maybe even some under-graduates come up against it too. The points made include: A [...]

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