Monday, November 29, 2004

George Siemens' blog: elearnspace

I recently found the blog elearnspace. George Siemens, an instructor at Red River College, writes the blog as part of his larger site dedicated to "everything elearning." He posts on learning, networks, knowledge, technology, and community.

Last week George shared an interesting but heavy report of the Australian govenment on "Self-Directed Learning in the Digital Age." As a reader of this blog, you probably qualify as one of the adult independent self-directed Internet-fueled learners that are the subject of this study.

As you click your way to learning, you may also want to check out a much smaller nugget shared by George: "E-research without discussion doesn't help." Good point. I'd like to add (as the author suggests in the actual post) that e-research with e-discussion does go a long way towards helping; and I'd dare to say that e-researching with e-soliloquizing (aka blogging) also helps, though not as much.

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António dos Reis said...

Last week George Siemens participate in Creative Learning Conference in Lisbon.

Participated in an e-round table: New skils, for new jobs and new oportunities.

You can see the video at:
http://olcw.thegraal.net/clc_1015/clc_1015.html

e-round table participants
Moderator
António dos Reis – The Graal Institute Scientific Committee President
Participants
Anna Maria Sansoni – European Commission Information Society Media Directorate-General
Paulo Pinto – Multimedia expert Computer Science Department - Lusiada Lisbon University
Filipe Carrera – Informal trainer expert - ISEG / Lisbon University
Johnny Widen – Senior Research Center of Distance Technology – Lulea University Sweden
Nicolau Wallenstein – Director of Geosciences Department – Azores University
Norbert Pachler – Co-director: C EWL for Education Professionals at London University – UK
Stefan Bedin – CEO of WeZupport e-solutions - Sweden
Theo Hug – Director of Multimedia Department at Innsbruck University – Austria
Xabier Basogain –e-technology PHD program at Bask country Engineer’s University
António dos Reis