Collaborative-Learning

CAMEL Project Outputs

May 4, 2007

CAMEL (Collaborative Approaches to the Management of e-Learning). ‘HEFCE provided Leadership, Governance and Management Programme (LGM) funding to support a project aiming to identify and promote good practice in the management of ICT to support lifelong learning. The CAMEL project was a pilot to explore the development of a Community of Practice amongst e-learning, systems, [...]

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Article: Wiki Pedagogy

May 1, 2007

Dossiers Technopédagogiques: Wiki Pedagogy, by Renée Fountain. Abstract: This article endeavours to denote and promote pedagogical experimentations concerning a Free/Open technology called a “Wiki”. An intensely simple, accessible and collaborative hypertext tool Wiki software challenges and complexifies traditional notions of – as well as access to – authorship, editing, and publishing. Usurping official authorizing practices [...]

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2007 European LAMS Conference: Designing the Future of Learning

April 30, 2007

2007 European LAMS Conference. ‘Following the success of the First International LAMS conference in 2006, the focus of the conference is on designing for the future. Where will Learning Design take us now? How is LAMS shaping up? What are the challenges for individuals and organisations? Importantly we want to capture the experience of those [...]

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Social Software in Learning and Teaching

August 27, 2006

Innovate: Teaching Social Software with Social Software. ‘Ulises Mejias examines how social software – information and communications technologies that facilitate the collaboration and exchange of ideas – enables students to participate in distributed research, an approach to learning in which knowledge is collectively constructed and shared. During Fall 2005, Mejias taught a graduate seminar that [...]

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Interact Learning Community Environment

August 14, 2006

Interact Learning Community Environment: Interact is an Online Learning and Collaboration platform developed by the Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand. It is an open source online community environment designed with the intention of making it easy for people to interact online, based around constructivist and vygotskian views of learning. The key advantage of Interact [...]

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LAMS Foundation

June 29, 2006

The LAMS Foundation. ‘The LAMS Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that manages research and development into LAMS and the concepts of Learning Design. The Foundation is based at Macquarie University, Australia as part of the Macquarie E-learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE), under the leadership of Professor James Dalziel (Director of MELCOE and inventor of LAMS). [...]

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Peer-to-Peer (P2P): The eLearning Future?

June 2, 2006

How P2P Will Change Collaborative Learning. ‘Once associated with illegal file sharing and RIAA lawsuits, peer-to-peer services may now be the future of eLearning. How will eLearning change as the next generation of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications becomes commonplace? Might P2P hold the seed of great pedagogical wins for learning and collaboration? During the first wave [...]

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