E-flections

Boud, D, (2009) Assessment, Experience Reflection keynote address Cann, A, Badge,J, Moore, D and  Neylon, C (2010). Google Wave in Education ALT online newsletter http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/jxyzb5e3yo3 15 January, 2010 (last accessed 15 January, 2010) Cross, J, (2004) Learnscape Architecture http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=best_practices&article=50-1 (Last accessed Feb 11th 2010) Educause (2009) 7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave 29 [...]

The student feedback generated a considerable amount of information, most of it positive. On the negative side, the issues raised were the lack of an automatic notification when a wave is added to, confusing organisation within waves and of a series of waves, and ‘information overload’ which one student referred to as a  ‘Google Tsunami’. [...]

We use several interactive spaces for communication and collaboration on the masters course, including the Wimba live classroom for web conferencing for tutorials, lectures and seminars, reflective blogs for collaborative learning, a wiki for group research and a social networking site called Ning for discussion forums and social presence. Our experience of introducing new platforms [...]

‘If we now situate knowledge building in groups or communities, we can observe the construction and evolution of the knowledge in the artifacts that are produced, in the sentences spoken, sketches drawn and texts inscribed…..building collaborative knowledge, making shared meaning, ….and creating significant artifacts are foundational activities in group processes’  Gerry Stahl (2009) The emerging [...]

What is Google Wave? Google announced Wave in May 2009 as a web-based service in which threaded ‘waves’ consisting of a series of ‘blips’ (messages) are written and edited by multiple participants. One of the developers of Wave has described it as  ’what email would look like if it were invented today’ (Lifehacker, 2009). Underlying this is the [...]

Co-creating a living curriculum I work with the online Masters participants entirely virtually utilising a variety of web 2.0 and social networking approaches, creating a ‘learnscape’ (Cross, 2004), a series of overlapping interactive spaces that act as a ‘virtual commons’  replicating the physical spaces in a face-to-face environment. This approach is informed by Schön’s work [...]

CSCL often uses an iterative design-based research approach to the use of new technologies, which has many similarities to that of action research. Wang and Hannafin define this as a ‘systematic but flexible methodology aimed to improve educational practices through iterative analysis, design, development, and implementation, based on collaboration among researchers and practitioners in real-world [...]

‘In addition to understanding how the cognitive processes of participants are influenced by social interaction, we need to understand how learning events themselves take place in the interactions between participants’ Rupert Wegerif (2006, p11) Introduction This is the first in a series of posts on our experience of using Wave for collaborative, peer-to-peer project planning [...]

Here is a short flipbite I made reflecting on building communities of practice in HE paul lowe on building a community of practice for learning from paul lowe on Vimeo.

Here are the references for the talk i’m giving at Photo Next in Stockholm, Feb 5th 2010 on communites of practice in postgraduate education Boud D, Cohen R and Walker D (1985) Reflection: turning experience into learning. London: Kogan Page Brockbank, A., & McGill, I. (2007). Facilitating Reflective Learning in Higher Education. Maidenhead: OU Press.Eskow, [...]