Educational Technology, Researcher Dev, Web Dev, HE and general rants
Could the following be the traditional VLE Killer? Grockit Raises Cash, Prepares “Massive Multiplayer Online Learning” Product.
It certainly appears to be talking the language of ‘social learning’. The article is light on the sort of features that the product would have but the concept appears long overdue at least commercially.
Would other educators welcome a commercial product like this or are there already O/Source tools available that could achieve MMOL (eg ELGG)?
This post by Bryan Alexander, discusses a recent Ed-Media Symposium on “Getting beyond centralized technologies in higher education”. There is some good analysis from Scott Wilson about the historial use of centralised systems by institutions and some great discussions in general about why we should be trying utilise the web in elearning rather than LMS’s.
I especially liked the reference to the phrase “digital taxidermists” — which describes “the unfortunate tendency of educators to suck the life out of online applications and communities”.
This is pretty neat and takes about 1 second to create a publicly accessible chat room.
This is something I have been thinking about doing for ages. It wouldn’t be bad if the Uni did this too IMHO.
Just had to post this so that I don’t forget it and update all the FF versions I have on various PC’s. If you have a slow PC due to FireFox then this is for you
Fixing Firefox’s memory leak: “around”
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