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Writing and Ideas
- New! elearning2.0 :: putting the 'oh!' back into elearning
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Mike Malloch's personal weblog, with a new name to reflect our mission for 2006: "elearning2.0 - putting the 'oh!' back into elearning". The new name reflects our belief in 'elearning2.0' as a slogan for rallying progressive developers and educators. The new look also comprises an experimental push at skinnabiliy in KNotes and an attempt to clean up some Knotes usability issues.
- Papers
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KnowNet is very much an ideas-led company; in fact the only reason we develop software at all is because we are very concerned that software must be informed by thinking about how real people can interact together to develop knowledge. KnowNet occasionally publishes papers and conference contributions on issues relating to online learning and collaborative knowledge development.
You will quickly detect that our fundamental position is very simple: e-learning and online knowledge working are just not good enough for real people to use in 2004. Basic work is needed to develop better software architectures and online practices, concentrating on making collaboration and presence-to-hand of action and others ubiquitous and natural. We hope to be publishing much more on our ideas in the future: about why current architectures, environments and practices are so bad, and on how the open-source, open-standards, education and research communities can work together to make e-learning and e-collaboration work.
- Weblogs
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Though we are an ideas-led company, we are also extremely busy with development and project work, which has prevented us from publishing as much as we would like to (one way of justifying this is Mike's favourite incantation "philosophers have tried to understand e-learning; the point however is to change it" :O). On the other hand, we have been following the development of weblogging culture very closely since it's nascency (never finding the time to blog ourselves), and feel that blogging's casual, granular, collaborative approach to developing themes and addressing them will suit our aims and aptitudes well.
KnowNet has almost finished development work on a weblogging system for Plone. We ourselves begun our own weblogs using that system. Current weblogs are KNotations , The Wales-Wide Web and elearning2.0 .
- Archives
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The archive area contains an assortment of articles, reports and papers KnowNet staff members have written over the past 4 years.
Papers
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Online EDUCA 2001 paper
- A frequently-cited paper we delivered to the Online EDUCA 2001 conference in Berlin on November 29 is available here in several formats
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e-Learning and Sustainability
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- This extensive survey of the present state of e-learning focuses on issues of sustainability, cinluding pedagogy, contents and software
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Pedagogy, e-learning and knowledge development
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- This short paper was produced for the European Commission K2 project. it looks at the history of pedagogies for e-learning.
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Bringing Guidance Research and Practice closer together:
Development of the UK National Guidance Research Forum website
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- This paper looks at the ideas behind the development of the Guidance Research web site and the development process.
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E-Learning and new New Basic Skills
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- This short paper examines some of the different definitions of digital skills, literacy and communication. It suggests young people today are developing and using new ways of learning and new skills as a result of the digital revolution. It looks at the work of a European project which has developed a new framework for digital skills
Weblogs
KnowNet is about to release knotes - which includes a web-logging system for Plone - in early January 2005. knotes is already working well enough that we've started our own weblogs using it:
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KNotations
- This is the weblog in which Mike will be documenting ongoing work on the products, as well as annotating and noting other technological developments.
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The Wales-Wide Web
- Graham Attwell on Learning, Knowledge and Technology
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