Having listened to much of the noise being generated about the Asus eeePC I finally gave in and bought one. Like many others I have to say that I am impressed. I needed a small gadget that I could take on the road, has a proper keyboard and a good display. The Asus seems to [...]
I’ve been re-reading The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen about technological change and company success– specifically disruptive technologies. Whilst being about 10 years old, it is still interesting and relevant. As I read it, I can’t help thinking about the whole-sale introduction of learning platforms (read VLE’s) in UK schools. I wonder if DfES/ BECTA [...]
The Learn for Life website has a podcast from Robin Ball, Learning Services Manager of BECTA, in which he talks about learning platforms, the framework , and pupils being unable to use Web2.0 from within schools (an e-safety issue). Amongst a discussion about pedagogy and VLEs, Robin expresses some frustration that the framework has been [...]
The results of a survey of e-portfolio and e-Personal Development Planning (PDP) practice in UK higher education has been published by the Centre for Recording Achievement on behalf of the Higher Education Academy. Things of note: Almost all claimed that PDP had now been implemented in their institution and over three-quarters of these were using some form [...]
An article on ZDNet with Stephen Lucey (Becta’s executive director of strategic technologies) is worth a read. Good advice for Vista and Office 2007. I am glad that Stephen defined a learning platform in the following way: A learning platform is a range of products, so we were looking for the ability of a supplier [...]
Ian Usher of Bucks (and big Moodle advocate) makes an interesting point in a recent blog posting: embedding a learning platform in the culture of a school is something which you can’t do during a month’s or a week’s “free trial” of a commercial product – unless they’re willing to let you trial it for [...]