Via George Siemens.
A presentation by Stephen Downes about the future of online learning. Slides are available here.
I do agree with Stephen in many points he raised and especially that the learner has to be put at the center and that Personal Learning Environments will replace Learning Management Systems.
McCain: “Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. We’ve got all kinds of sources of information.”
A post by Amit Singhal introducing the core ranking team at Google. According to Amit, the philosophies behind Google ranking include:
1) Best locally relevant results served globally.
2) Keep it simple.
3) No manual intervention.
Via Doug Cornelius.
A video of an interview by Patrick Lambe of Larry Prusack and Dave Snowden on whether KM is dying/dead.
Yesterday, Mohammad Ridwan Agustiawan successfully defended his master thesis "PLEF: A Conceptual Framework for Personal Learning Environments". Under my supervision, Mohammad has designed, implemented, and evaluated a personal learning environment framework which can support the learners in taking control over their learning experience. These requirements have been achieved by the designed and implemented system. Based on Web 2.0 concepts and technologies, the system allows the learner to e.g. aggregate, manage, tag, comment, and share their favorite learning resources (e.g. feeds, widgets, and different media) within a personalized space.
