Integrating personal learning and working environments

Graham Attwell and Cristina Costa have written a nice paper titled ‘Integrating personal learning and working environments‘. The paper focuses on the future for learning and working environments in 2025.

In the framework of the PROLEARN project, we have addressed many of the issues raised in this paper. There we created a roadmap toward professional learning in 2020. It would be a nice exercise to compare our results in predicting the future of professional learning and work.

Google Adds Themes To Gmail

Google announced new (dynamic) themes for Gmail.

PLE Workshop at WCET08

Via George Siemens.

A wrap-up of the PLE workshop at WCET08 by Jared Stein, Chris Lott, and Scott Leslie.

The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On

Stephen Downes has released a very interesting paper titled "The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On". A must read for everyone interested in TEL. I also support Stephen's nomination for most influential blog post for 2008.

OpenSocial's First Birthday

Via Rick Turoczy.
Last Thursday, the main companies behind OpenSocial and OpenSocial fans have celebrated OpenSocial's first birthday at MySpace’s San Francisco headquarters. Below is a video of the event.