Sociocorpus - old GroupSense eLearning Blog
notes on the evolving life of the socius online
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Thursday, March 25, 2004
Google Search: define:transference
I am reading an article on transference in psychotherapy - and thought I'd use the Google 'define:' function - to see if it helped... not bad so far but it has not gone beyond what I know already.
Google Search: define:transference: "(psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn"
posted by Walter Logeman 9:51:55 PM permanent link
Sunday, July 27, 2003
elearnspace - everything elearning.
elearnspace. everything elearning. a site with nicely ordered links to eLearning-related resources.
posted by Dan Randow 6:48:18 PM permanent link
Monday, June 16, 2003
Moodle
Moodle is an open source eLearning server.
The Moodle poeople say: "Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. It's an ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.
[...]
The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. ..."
posted by Dan Randow 8:49:25 PM permanent link
Sunday, June 15, 2003
Christchurch College of Education's "Interact" LCMS
Interact - Online Learning and Collaboration Platform Christchurch College of Education has published its open source Online Learning and Collaboration on SourceForge.
They say "it is a free alternative to the likes of WebCT and Blackboard. It is an open source cms, lms designed with the intention of making it easy for students and lecturers to interact online, based around constructivist and vygotskian views of teaching and learning."
posted by Dan Randow 7:15:43 PM permanent link
Sunday, August 11, 2002
APEC Network for Education online community based on Communities Online collaboration portal developed by Merito (formerly part of CyberElves). Key people in Communities Online are Ross Whitcher (Community Designer) and Harvey Calder (formerly of Azimuth). Online Communities appears to be aimed at primary and secondary school students as well as educaators.
posted by Dan Randow 3:25:28 PM permanent link
Monday, July 15, 2002
Wharton School's webCafé An eCampus for Wharton's MBA programme using eRoom. Provides "easy-to-use Web-based tools for collaborating and sharing information in teaching, research and student activities."
posted by Dan Randow 3:57:12 PM permanent link
Monday, May 13, 2002
Knowledge Forum 3: a collaborative tool for knowledge building communities This tool provides for the structured development of ideas in communities.
posted by Dan Randow 6:55:07 PM permanent link
Thursday, April 11, 2002
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posted by Walter Logeman 1:06:24 AM permanent link
Monday, April 08, 2002
post deleted - made in error
posted by Walter Logeman 12:52:04 AM permanent link
Tuesday, December 04, 2001
Jack Welch at TechLearn 2001
That link is to the full transcript of an interview at TechLearn 2001 between Jack Welch, the former Chairman of General Electric and Elliott Maisie.
Here is one thing Jack had to say about Learning in Business:
"It is about raising the fundamental intellect of the organization every day. It is what makes organizations win. And inspiring people to learn because the excitement and the energy they get from that learning is so enormous, it is how you energize an organization. By making it curious, by making it say wow, by finding wows all of the time, by creating new learning. That is what making an organization win is all about."
posted by Dan Randow 4:56:54 PM permanent link
Monday, November 26, 2001
MIT: OpenCourseware In April, 2001, MIT announced its commitment to make the materials from virtually all of its courses freely available on the World Wide Web for non-commercial use. This is the Information page for this initiative called MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW).
While this initiative speaks loudly of MIT's commitment to broad social benefits, it also raises questions about the role of content in eLearning. Are MIT cutting their own throat in the competitive globalised learning space? Or are they acknowledging and making it glaringly obvious to the rest of us that it's not your content that counts?
posted by Dan Randow 5:06:05 PM permanent link
Thursday, October 25, 2001
FDU Web Campus
On the “Web Campus” you can:
earn a Master's degree, download documents, read Inside FDU, read FDU Magazine,
take a course, find What's Happening, set up your own web page.
This looks like a campus that has its act together... will explore more. It has just made at least one OL course a compulsory part ot the degree.
posted by Walter Logeman 3:11:20 AM permanent link
On the “Web Campus” you can:
earn a Master's degree, download documents, read Inside FDU, read FDU Magazine,
take a course, find What's Happening, set up your own web page.
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
Facilitating Online Learning : Effective Strategies for Moderators This looks good.
posted by Dan Randow 3:38:54 PM permanent link
Monday, October 22, 2001
John Seely Brown says eLearning works best when leaners can be social with each other but that "by focusing solely on academic issues, online universities fail to give their students the social context that allows information to become meaningful". (Online Unschooled - UNDER DEVELOPMENT : ONLINE UNIVERSITIES - CIO Magazine Oct 15,2001"
posted by Dan Randow 5:29:51 PM permanent link
Sunday, October 14, 2001
about.think.com From the press release: "New Zealand’s Ministry of Education (MOE) has entered an alliance with Oracle Corporation to roll out Oracle’s Think.com, an innovative web-based educational environment that provides primary and secondary schools with powerful tools enabling collaborative learning over the Internet."
posted by Dan Randow 4:18:10 PM permanent link
Sunday, September 23, 2001
Mindspan Learning Solutions IBM's eLearning business unit. Have tecnnologies like LearningSpace and a range of services for design, implementation and management of eLearning.
posted by Dan Randow 4:03:46 PM permanent link
APPCON
An Australian eLearning Provider. Sell interactive content-based products like Element K and conferencing and collaboration products from Centra. Also provide consulting.
posted by Dan Randow 3:53:02 PM permanent link
Centra - The Leader in eLearning and Internet Business Collaboration Software and Networked Services Centra "provide superior Web-based products and services for learning and collaboration that accelerate strategic business processes through the rapid creation, management and delivery of information and skills."
posted by Dan Randow 3:43:30 PM permanent link
Friday, September 21, 2001
Imaginal Training
A thorough article - with a focus on elearning in corporates.
posted by Walter Logeman 6:56:01 AM permanent link
Monday, September 03, 2001
Innovate! Learning 2001 Virtual Conference
24 Sep. - 20 Oct. 2001
"Our vision is to bring together people from different disciplines and cultures who have an interest in developing and using innovative learning forms."
posted by Dan Randow 3:02:51 PM permanent link
Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Yahoo! Education Courses : groupsense
Yahoo! Courses are an implementation of Yahoo! Groups optimised for education.
This is one I have created.
posted by Dan Randow 10:01:46 PM permanent link
Sunday, July 29, 2001
Web Crossing has introduced "Campus Crossing" - "a specialized implementation of Web Crossing for Online Education and Training."
posted by Dan Randow 3:44:02 PM permanent link
Saturday, May 05, 2001
What Are CourseInfo and WebCT?
"CourseInfo and WebCT help faculty build, conduct, and manage courses on the Web. Both are fully Web-based. Anything you can do on the Web, you can do in CourseInfo and WebCT.
Common Features
There are a number of significant features provided both by CourseInfo and WebCT. Some of the most useful are in the area of online communications. Each product includes tools to post announcements, a calendar, bulletin boards, chat, e-mail, and a whiteboard.
Both also include assessment tools that support multiple-choice, true or false, fill in the blank, matching, and essay questions. Only essay questions are not automatically graded.
Gradebooks allow students to view their own grades online if the instructor desires. Student tracking gives instructors a way to roughly measure how actively students are using the course site and what materials are most frequently requests.
In both products, instructors control access to course content. Instructors can develop courses online, keeping their work in progress hidden from students' view until they are ready to make it available.
Differences
WebCT, the more mature product, is more powerful and contains more features than CourseInfo, but is universally considered more difficult for faculty to use.
CourseInfo, the younger product, is not as powerful or fully featured as WebCT, but it has a consistent and well-designed interface for faculty.
WebCT a closed system. "
posted by Walter Logeman 5:47:35 PM permanent link
Sunday, April 08, 2001
RedHerring.com | This week, OK?
"The online medium is not like others. For entertainment, research, communication, and community, people use the Web and email in ways that aren't obvious if what you're studying is traditional media platforms such as television, newspapers, and telephones.
A lot of the differences are related to the investment of time, which in more human terms we can call patience. Online platforms breed impatience. Yet many online communities go on without end. That has its advantages, but it makes things awkward if you're looking to get business done and get on with your work.
"This simple observation has led Howard Rheingold to create a business pitch around time-limited (usually two- or three-week-long) forums. These sessions are similar in some ways to online classes, but more open and freewheeling; they're more like the online version of a business conference. The sessions, once closed, are archived to CD-ROM, and discs are distributed to the participants for reference."
posted by Walter Logeman 4:26:05 PM permanent link
Wednesday, April 04, 2001
MIT Course Materials Free Online
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - At a time when online knowledge can be a valuable commodity, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to offer nearly all its course materials on the Internet for free.
The $100 million project aims to make information from MIT's 2,000 courses accessible to everyone within 10 years. The Web site will include lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists and assignments.
Visitors to the site will not earn college credit.
posted by Walter Logeman 8:02:23 PM permanent link
Technical Writing, Training, and Communication: Tools, Resources, and Jobs Resources for Technical Writers and Trainers
posted by Walter Logeman 2:00:03 PM permanent link
Monday, March 12, 2001
FATHOM: Thinking is Encouraged @ FATHOM.com Fathom appears to be a broker for online courses from other institutiuons. They say with online learning, u can: "interact with knowledge content, with your instructor and with other learners". Makes sense.
posted by Dan Randow 12:10:37 PM permanent link
Wednesday, February 21, 2001
e-Learning from start to success: click2learn.com
Click2Learn is a major player in the eLearning market. They have significant clients in NZ.
From their press releases:
The have acquired ToolBook, an authoring tool. They have Ingenium 6.0, "the e-Learning industry's most advanced learning management system". They have paertered "with Centra to integrate web-based collaboration into Ingenium learning management system." And click2learn has teamed "with Microsoft To Distribute XML-based e-Learning Courses."
posted by Dan Randow 1:47:15 PM permanent link
Tuesday, February 20, 2001
On-line lessons open
20 FEBRUARY 2001
"An Auckland secondary school is offering economics classes taught fully over the Internet.
King's Institute, a unit of the private King's College school, has launched its Economics Online website, offering the New Zealand year 12 and year 13 economics syllabus to anyone wanting to attend the virtual classrooms.
"Motivated senior students or adults anywhere in the country who have access to the Internet can enrol in Economics Online to get additional help in economics if they are already studying it, or to pick it up as an additional subject," says Institute director, Jan Kerr.
Each course has its own website which includes interactive notes, exam questions, model answers, and relevant site links.
Students also take part in e-mail tutorials and discussion groups with teachers and other class members, and are required to attend two on-campus courses each taking two days during the April and September holidays.
An on-line course for an individual costs $900 for the year, while schools can pay $300 to use the course material. For $100, individuals can use the institute's on-line tutoring facility without taking the rest of the course.
Ms Kerr says a full set of Maths Online courses will be launched on March 9, covering years nine to 13. The website for these courses contains about 3800 Web pages. Courses will cost $55 a year.
For more information, www.kingsinstitute.school.nz"
posted by Walter Logeman 2:49:44 AM permanent link
Internet Learning opens doors to cyber-school
29 JANUARY 2001
By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER
"Auckland firm Internet Learning has opened the doors to what it claims is New Zealand's first NZQA-accredited business school located solely in cyberspace."
"The Internet Learning Business School is offering 600 management, business and computer-related training courses. Students are provided with course material on CD-Rom and online, meaning there are no classes to attend in person."
"The courses include two NZQA-accredited programmes which qualify for student loans – a diploma in small business management and a post-graduate diploma in travel management and marketing."
"The business school is also offering the popular Microsoft Certified Engineer Certification online, through United States training provider Learn Key."
posted by Walter Logeman 2:47:02 AM permanent link
Monday, February 12, 2001
INL NEWSPAPERS Internet Learning opens doors to cyber-school
29 JANUARY 2001
By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER
"Auckland firm Internet Learning has opened the doors to what it claims is New Zealand's first NZQA-accredited business school located solely in cyberspace.
The Internet Learning Business School is offering 600 management, business and computer-related training courses. Students are provided with course material on CD-Rom and online, meaning there are no classes to attend in person."
posted by Walter Logeman 4:47:50 AM permanent link
Wednesday, February 07, 2001
[Ecademy.com - The E-Business Education Network]
Ecademy appears to aim to become a mega-community of practice for eBusiness professionals.
They say about their Products & Services: "Ecademy.com will provide membership, training, networking, business development, exam certification, events, seminars, content distribution, consulting and speaker services to our Ecademists."
posted by Dan Randow 1:36:00 PM permanent link
Friday, February 02, 2001
amazon: Managing Your Documentation Projects
by Joann T. Hackos
This is the book I have. It is 1994, but pretty good!
posted by Walter Logeman 4:46:08 PM permanent link
Amazon: Standards for Online Communication
by Joann T. Hackos, Dawn M. Stevens
I think this book is a must have!
posted by Walter Logeman 4:26:56 PM permanent link
Friday, January 26, 2001
StudentAffairs.com
"Beginning in Fall 2000, StudentAffairs.com began to offer a variety of online, professional development programs for student affairs professionals. Utilizing WebCT, one of the leading platforms for offering coursework over the Internet, the sessions have been structured to be highly interactive for both students and facilitators."
This is a course offered by Rena Pallof and Keith Pratt the authors of the book mentioned below.
posted by Walter Logeman 9:39:17 PM permanent link
Review of Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace
"Discussion of this book at the Learning Technology Development Council Winter Conference on Instructional Design was a wonderful opportunity for me to think more deeply about the framework for successful online learning that this book presents. Important issues to consider in developing a framework for successful online learning (outlined in the book) include access to technology, guidelines and procedures, participation, collaborative and transformative learning, and evaluation of the process (as well as course outcomes)."
posted by Walter Logeman 7:50:48 PM permanent link
Thursday, January 25, 2001
Fraser, on Academic Shovelware
"Colleges Should Tap
the Pedagogical Potential
of the World-Wide Web"
posted by Walter Logeman 3:58:54 PM permanent link
shovelware [The Jargon Dictionary]
shovelware /shuh'v*l-weir`/ n.
"1. Extra software dumped onto a CD-ROM or tape to fill up the remaining space on the medium after the software distribution it's intended to carry, but not integrated with the distribution. 2. A slipshod compilation of software dumped onto a CD-ROM without much care for organization or even usability."
posted by Walter Logeman 3:57:47 PM permanent link
GroupSense Online Groups
Online Groups or eGroups? I think it needs to be Online groups really, and I will change the name of this Weblog.
"Online Groups enable people to work, learn and build shared knowledge-bases together at their own time, their own place and their own pace. Online Groups foster and facilitate innovation, learning, collaboration and knowledge-sharing."
posted by Walter Logeman 3:45:57 AM permanent link
Email Quotes
Some interesting history of quoting in email from Eric Raymond:
"Early mail and netnews readers had no facility for including messages this way, so people had to paste in copy manually. BSD Mail(1) was the first message agent to support inclusion, and early Usenetters emulated its style. But the TAB character tended to push included text too far to the right (especially in multiply nested inclusions), leading to ugly wraparounds. After a brief period of confusion (during which an inclusion leader consisting of three or four spaces became established in EMACS and a few mailers), the use of leading > or > became standard, perhaps owing to its use in ed(1) to display tabs (alternatively, it may derive from the > that some early Unix mailers used to quote lines starting with "From" in text, so they wouldn't look like the beginnings of new message headers). Inclusions within inclusions keep their > leaders, so the `nesting level' of a quotation is visually apparent."
posted by Walter Logeman 3:34:09 AM permanent link
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