LT2004 Kicks off!

Pre-conference Activities: There was the pre-conf workshop – Connecting to Learning – which an intimate group attended where we discussed our teaching models, our learner readiness, our content or curriculum and then we went live…we Skye’d, we Webex-ed, we went out there….! A great group – committed to the integration of collaborative learning through technologies…

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E-Learning Still in Early Stages in Australia and New Zealand

The Cape Group (an Australian-based global human capital research and advisory firm) have just released a report based on responses from 30 of the top 100 organisations in Australia and New Zealand. Learning Circuits magazine (from ASTD) reviewed the report: The survey found that only a handful of organizations viewed themselves as being mature users…

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Knowledge Sharing

Informal, joined up knowledge sharing using connected weblogs in pursuit of Mental Health service improvement While I’m focusing on blogs (when am I not?) I thought this might be of interest! Lee Bryant from Headshift – a UK-based internet technolgies company that focuses on social and communication technologies has integrated blogs and wikis into the…

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The End of TV as we know it…

An interesting excerpt from the LA Times (you need to be a registered user to gain access to the full article) that I received via Rafat Ali’s blog (entry from 19 Sep – category is Broadband) generated a few thoughts for me on convergence: Former Academy of Television Arts and Sciences chairman Bryce Zabel wrote…

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Review of Robin Mason’s VC

Wed 8 September – videoconference – presented by Robin Mason, hosted by LearnTel. Robin from the Open Uni in the UK is a specialist in teaching and learning online – with a new book shortly to be published: “Connectecon: Learning for the connected generation”. Robin admits that some of the content in her new book…

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