January 2008

Innovation 2008: The Real and The Ideal

January 22, 2008
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Open Education: The Cape Town Declaration

January 21, 2008

Unlocking the promise of open educational resources: The Cape Town Open Education Declaration. ‘The Cape Town Open Education Declaration arises from a small but lively meeting convened in Cape Town in September 2007. The aim of this meeting was to accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education. Convened by the [...]

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Big Think: YouTube for Ideas

January 20, 2008

Big Think. ‘bigthink.com is a new and growing website, currently in its private beta version, with a simple mission: This is a digital age, one in which a wealth of accessible information empowers you, the citizen-consumer. But where is the information coming from? How accurate and unprocessed is it, really? Ask yourself this: how empowered [...]

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The Open Research and Open Knowledge Society

January 17, 2008

The Open Research and Open Knowledge Society (ORS Acronym) is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) based on Athens Greece and is operating all over the world. It is not depending on any government, political party, political or religious organization or entities representing financial interests. Given the significance of the knowledge society as a new context [...]

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Multiply Your e-Portfolio

January 17, 2008

Multiply. ‘Multiply gives you an easy way to share all kinds of digital media, including photos, blogs, videos, music and more, all in one convenient place: your own personal web site. With Multiply, you can share and discuss your stuff with everyone in your “social network,” and also be alerted whenever they have something new.’

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Knowing Knowledge Wiki: An Online Book by George Siemens

January 16, 2008

Knowing Knowledge Wiki. From the Preface: Why does so much of our society look as it did in the past? Our schools, our government, our religious organizations, our media—while more complex, have maintained their general structure and shape. Classroom structure today, with the exception of a computer or an LCD projector, looks remarkably unchanged—teacher at [...]

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Wikia Search Alpha Just Launched

January 7, 2008

Wikia Search Alpha Launched. ‘Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine. Wikia’s search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results [...]

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Innovate: Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way

January 4, 2008

Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way, Shelley Henson Johnson, Brett Shelton, and David Wiley, Innovate, Vol. 4, December 2007/January 2008. Synopsis: Recognizing the pedagogical value of gaming, academics along with game designers and educational content developers have begun producing resources to improve educational game design and make instructional games [...]

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