I posted a more detailed note of my seminar on Creative Collaboration and The Future of Education at Urban Learning Space over at Playpen. But I felt should make of a note of it here as I was talking all about the work that we’ve been doing at Omnium and the Creative Waves 2007 project.
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I just a post over at Putting people first about Microsoft’s Live Search for Acadmics. Similar to Google Scholar except that it trawls journal databases instead of the open web for content.
It’s pretty well-designed - simple, basically - and shows why all those university library search engines that use metalib are so useless. The common […]
Not another buzzword like Web 2.0? We hope not, but it is the title of really interesting paper by Derek Keats and J. Philipp Schmidt. The paper is actually focussed on Africa and how it can shape its own future in this new environment, but there is much to apply to other nations too. Essentially […]
Futurelab have just published an interesting report called 2020 and beyond in which they predict some technology trends and raise issues for education.
It’s certainly a very worthwhile read, but I think they have skipped over the social aspect of all these technologies. Sharing, collaborating, tagging and having open conversations are the hallmarks of the current […]