Enterprise VLEs and LMS like blackboard (aka blackweb) are getting a bad press these days with the rise of web2 and the edupunk concept of finding your own open source tools to create the learner centred environment everyone wants. But we have to face the fact that most large organisations like universities (mine is no [...]
An interesting post today from charlie beckett about why news organisations are resistant to moving into the online arena that has interesting implications for education. Charlie argues that because editors typically see online as a drain on limited resources and dont see any incentives: “All the managers could see was a threat. This Online business [...]
charlie beckett, the director of Polis has written a new book called SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World and in a blog entry related to it writes
‘“What are we supposed to tell our newsrooms when they tell us they don’t have time to do anything special for the Web?” Or put it [...]
As a media practitioner and educator I’m interested particularly in the ways that new media are transforming the landscape of how we source our information, knowledge and beliefs about the world. We are shifting from a passive stance of absorbing from fixed media like books and newspapers, and from the relatively traditional teaching methods of [...]
