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Freitag, 2. September 2005

Learning to decide

Some mind tools for effective decision-making you can find on 43 Folders. Mind Tools is of course a good resource for managing the self and the relationships with other selves.

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Freitag, 26. August 2005

Learning Communities: Wikipedia

A paper by Cormac Lawler "...looks at aspects of Wikipedia's structure and process, with specific focus on its community (or organisational) learning." The insights are relevant to both education and learning organisations. Wikipedia is viewed as a learning community composed of multilingual members aiming to achieve consensus via cross-cultural communication. Conflict is worked on collaboratively, encouraging the taking of 'multiple perspectives'. For anyone interested in productive team-based computer-mediated collaboration in a text-based medium, this is a 'must read'.

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Dienstag, 2. August 2005

Online collaborative tools

Athabasca University specialises in distance education and innovations in learning.They feature a chart of online collaborative tools. Various a/synchronous, text-based, A/V tools and CMS are evaluated. It displays these as products ,or as reports.They aim to utilise mainly free collaborative social software.

A dissertation on Teaching and Learning with ICT aims to contribute to "the ongoing change process in Europe's Higher Education in general...and change at the teacher training...in particular". "So far, the paradigm has been that teachers need to be taught as they are supposed to teach. The dilemma of bringing teachers and teacher students to a new didactic method, like the integration of ICTs, is in the fact that they themselves have been taught in plenary, discursive, non-ICT supported ways." (UNESCO, 2004)

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Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005

Ranking universities according to web presence

The idea of ranking universities is part of 'the global market-place'. The fact, that they are ranked with Cybermetrics in terms of their web presence seems new. They are ranked globally, or according to various countries, such as Australian universities, German universities or philosophy in the English-speaking-world for example. A Technorati for academic performance?

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Free online formal education

Tufts University is offering free online courses. Modeled after MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative the OpenCourseWare (OCW) provides formal education in various subjects.There is no registration necessary and no awards issued. The vision is to share knowledge amongst self-directed learners. There are some six courses online so far.The microbiology of infectious diseases, pathophysiology or emerging infections and agents of biological warfare and histology are just a few.

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