CALRG 30th Anniversary – Session 3

[Crossposted to Cloudworks]
Adrian Kirkwood
Evaluating the OU Home Computing policy. First courses in 1988. A meta-project, an organisational activity.
Previously, provided students with computing facilities since 1970s – remote access and at study centres etc.  Desktop computers entered the mass market.  New Home Computing Policy required students – on a few, specific courses – to arrange their [...]

CALRG 30th Anniversary – Session 2

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John Cook
Slides available in Slideshare.
Snapshot 1 – Cooperative Problem-Seeking Dialogues in Learning. (2000) to Snapshot 2 – Going for a Local Walkabout: Putting Urban Planning Education in Context with Mobile Phones. (2009)
Music a key feature throughout.  MetaMuse designed to adaptively structure interactions between pairs of cooperating learners – decisions made about traversing State [...]

Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG) 30th Anniversary – Session 1

[Crossposted as a cloud in the Cloudworks cloudscape for this event.]
Notes from the Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG) 30th Anniversary Conference, 18 May 2009, Jennie Lee Building, The Open University.
Opening from Josie Taylor, Director of IET, and then intro from Gráinne Conole mentioning the Cloudworks cloudscape for the conference.
Ann Jones
First project, late 80s – [...]

Journal publishing industry are a load of truckers

David Wiley (coiner of the oft-useful water/polo analogy for online/education) has produced another parable – this time taking a potshot at the journal publishing industry:
Once upon a time there was an inventor. She was brilliant. [...] They all set to work. It was alternately glorious and tedious, fulfilling and demoralizing. [...] at length the day [...]