Posted on September 29, 2010 by JimS
By Claude Almansi
Editor, Accessibility Issues
Mehmet Firat, a Ph.D. student at Anadolu University, Turkey, is gathering metaphors for “university”. This is great per se, and pertinent to several recent discussions on ETC Journal about the role of universities in education.
Mehmet Firiat and his colleagues are still wishing to gather more replies. I am impatient to read their report once they get and analyze them: This is an interesting way to conjure up a multi-subjective image of university. Continue reading →
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Posted on September 29, 2010 by JimS
By Stefanie Panke
Editor, Social Software in Education
The third week of the massive open online course PLENK2010 centered around emerging technological trends and their impact on personal learning environments. The names for this “next Web” are manifold: Web 3.0, extended Web, Web eX, or X Web. It comprises themes like augmented reality, semantic web, location-based services, mobile computing and learning analytics (e.g., networks analysis).
A vizualisation of the discussion in a first week’s PLENK forum with SNAPP
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