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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Reviewers wanted: PLE/N book

Last year during CCK09, we ran a week-long conference on personal learning environments and networks. After the event, we issued a call for papers for a book that we intend to publish through AU Press. We’ve had good response and are now soliciting reviewers for the chapters. Rita Kop lists details on how you can [...]

Open course: Future of education and learning

I’ve mentioned this before, but to kick of three posts of self-promotion, I’m happy to announce that the website is up for the course Dave Cormier and I are hosting on The future of Education and Learning. The course starts April 19 and the schedule has been posted. I’ve also posted a few thoughts on [...]

Libraries

I like libraries. I like the feel, the smell. I like what they represent as places of knowledge, betterment, and access. I didn’t grow up with a television. So I spent my time reading. The time at the public library in my community was perhaps the most important part of my youth. I find it [...]

The impact of the internet on institutions in the future

“How will the internet impact our institution in the future” is a key question for business, education, and government leaders. The internet hasn’t played well with established fields in the past: news, music, journalism, video, etc. Pew Internet has released a new report on the internet’s impact on institutions in the future. The research consisted [...]

Mobiles: more for data than voice

One of those interesting stats that reveals the move to mobile computing: Mobile data use exceeds voice For the first time ever, he said that on a global basis mobile phones were used more for accessing data than they were to make calls, and that global data traffic exceeded an Exabyte of data. What’s more, [...]