We were looking at theories including push/pull in learning and teaching and how this applies to elearning (we’re doing some old-school reading of books and were discussing E-Learning Strategies: How to Get Implementation and Delivery Right First Time by [...]]]> Had a fun Flashmeeting with my tutor and some of my course mates last night.

We were looking at theories including push/pull in learning and teaching and how this applies to elearning (we’re doing some old-school reading of books and were discussing E-Learning Strategies: How to Get Implementation and Delivery Right First Time by Morrison.)

At one point we got chatting about how/whether pull learning (where you get what you want when you need it, rather than having it pushed at you by an employer or teacher) could lead to the end of a set and formalised syllabus for some courses.

One of the things we were wondering was how this could work and, indeed, if it should even work.

Would we need a VLE, or would a collection of Web2.0 technologies be more appropriate?

Just doing some blog reading and found this by the OU’s Martin Weller – who blogs as The Ed Techie.

The OU are working on how to use web 2.0 and social learning in what is a very rapidly changing world.

Here’s Martin’s slideshow

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But do please go and have a look at Martin’s own site.

Oh and he ‘dared’ to say that a Prof’s views could be as valid as a blogger out in the wilds of t’internet somewhere. Got to be the blogger, surely

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Tags: PLE, social learning, Open University

Another interesting take on this from The Ed Techie – well worth [...]]]> Been mucking about updating my WordPress to see if it can become a base for a personal learning environment, good stuff from Graham Atwell (this is his categories section).

Another interesting take on this from The Ed Techie – well worth a look as it takes the idea of personal learning environments in a different way.

Fascinating guy, great session and great fun – he clearly loves what he does.

Picked up quite a lot from him, [...]]]> Robin Hamman from the BBC and cybersoc.com paid a visit to Cardiff today for a chat and workshop about blogging and social media to journalism students and staff at Cardiff Uni’s Bute Building.

Fascinating guy, great session and great fun – he clearly loves what he does.

Picked up quite a lot from him, so will do a bigger post later.

A few of my favourite things he talked about were the web tools he uses:

• mobile phone to Flickr – he uses zonetag which geotags the photo post on a map. unfortunately my phone will not take it, so struggling a little bit with ShoZu
• Flickr to blog – rather than uploading via your blog cms
• del.icio.us as a group sharing tool for projects
• Dopplr to keep people in touch with where you are

He may not have realised, but he might as well have been giving a lecture on e-learning because his tools could easily be part of a personalised learning environment (PLE).

Plenty of stuff about the community aspects, which is also relevant to learning as well as social media.

Hope he doesn’t mind, but he’s the first post in a new category – gurus of geek now “mi online gurus”, dedicated to people whose love of technology makes me think about what I’m doing (in a very good way).

I’m just back to the help files on Shozu to find out where I’m going wrong and to pimp my Press – you’ll know it worked when a picture of Robin appears!

(Oh yes, and I’m playing with Flock too!)

To be continued…

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Tags: PLE, Web2.0