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Martin, a crucial argument for HE institutions, I think. Also for legal and quality reasons, institutions are bound to a certain degree of centralisation and control over content, but trends such as mashups allow for the combination of institutional centralisation and user control (or rather system-controlled user freedom).
Commented Aug 9, 2007 on The centralisation/decentralisation dilemma at The Ed Techie
The centralisation/decentralisation dilemma
In my previous post I talked about future learning environments. One of the things about the 'future' scenario (apart from it never turning out quite how you expect it) is that it's very decentralised. It is likely that there won't be one VLE, but rather different flavours of one, depending on t...
Martin, some good thoughts with which I tend to agree, but how do you translate them to Open Universities such as ours?
I'm convinced that traditional universities have the social and "life experience" as added values, and will therefore probably not need to worry too much about their future, but what about distance education, where the social experience is of a quite different nature?
Commented Aug 9, 2007 on Is learning migrating away from universities? at The Ed Techie
Is learning migrating away from universities?
Tony Hirst sent me this story from TechCrunch about Grockit securing venture capital to develop a 'Massive multiplayer online learning' system. The idea is that people learn best from each other and the system will use network effects to facilitate education. It's not actually true that people ...
Good point, but will 'customers' remain willing to pay for the DJ???
Commented May 2, 2007 on Educator as DJ at The Ed Techie
Educator as DJ
James Cridland gave a good presentation today at the OU's internal curriculum and technology conference, talking about the Virgin radio site, and more significantly about the changing nature of broadcast. I'm presenting tomorrow on the broadcast strategy and so his talk had a lot of resonance wi...
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