So You Want to Be an E-learning Consultant…
With all the freelance opportunities in the field of e-learning it can often be challenging to determine what is equitable, market rate compensation for the wide assortment of e-learning services. This article by
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=54-1
Web 2.0 & Education: Bibliography
Here’s a great bibliography of articles related to Web 2.0 and Education. I have a couple of these I already have in my personal archive of Web 2.0 articles but I certainly will bookmark this for future reference.
Thanks Stephen for the link!
JCMC Special Theme Issue on “Social Network Sites”
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication has put out a special theme issue on “Social Network Sites”
Guest Editors: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/
- “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship” by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison
- “Signals in Social Supernets” by Judith Donath
- “Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances” by Hugo Liu
- “Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites” by Eszter Hargittai
- “Cying for Me, Cying for Us: Relational Dialectics in a Korean Social Network Site” by Kyung-Hee Kim and Haejin Yun
- “Public Discourse, Community Concerns, and Civic Engagement: Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com” by Dara Byrne
- “Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball” by Lee Humphreys
- “Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube” by Patricia Lange
Thanks to danah for posting the announcement.
University Publishing in a Digital Age
This report by Ithaka addresses scholarly communication arguing that, “a renewed commitment to publishing in its broadest sense can enable universities to more fully realize the potential global impact of their academic programs, enhance the reputations of their institutions, maintain a strong voice in determining what constitutes important scholarship, and in some cases reduce costs.”
To download the paper, click here.
Centralized vs. Distributed eLearning
Stephen Downes writes this article in which he discusses the dynamics of learning networks and connective knowledge. In addition to crafting a foundation for the value of connective learning environments, he draws distinctions between groups and networks. He argues for the value of distributed learning environments as compared to more restrictive, centralized environments.
Downes points out that effective networks are:
> Decentralized
> Distributed
> Disintermediated
> Disaggregated
> Dis-integrated
> Democratic
> Dynamic
> Desegregated
The idea of distributed learning is more tangibly explained in the differences between groups and networks. Groups are often compelled to collaborate in a restricted environment, whereas networks allow for learners to cooperate in a voluntary fashion at a mutually agreed upon level. Downes has put together a great diagram of the differences between groups and networks in a learning environment.
Here’s the video explanation of the above diagram:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4126240905912531540Read his entire article at http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper92/paper92.html