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Talking about Dragons with Dragons

September 14, 2007, 7:13 am

Last Friday I partook in a stressful but useful event run by JISC. Anyone who could make it had the chance to pitch their project ideas for the Users and Innovation callrun by Lawrie Phipps. The format...

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Poster with bloated title wins award at ALT-C

September 14, 2007, 8:02 am

I gave my talk on ‘Cultural Capital and Community Development in the pursute of Slaying Dragons’ at the ALT-C e-learning conference last week. The talk was well received which was very encouraging. The...

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Reaching into the Web

November 28, 2007, 3:22 am

As part of our JISC funded ‘Isthmus’ project we have launched a pilot Facebook group for students on our short online courses. The overall concept is to encourage a ‘community’ of students that exists...

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Following Online Society Across Time and Tech

February 6, 2008, 8:49 am

Below is a pitch for a research project that doesn’t exist yet because I can’t describe it properly. The ‘Open Social’ concept and Social Graph API seem to be a tech kind of response to the phenomenon...

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The Habitat Project Launches

March 5, 2008, 8:05 am

No, not an opportunity to test stylish yet knowingly kitsch home furnishings but a research project piloting the use of Multi-User Virtual Environments (think Second Life). TALL heads up a large...

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Learning from the Games Designers

April 7, 2008, 5:04 am

The designers of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games face a significant educational challenge. They need to efficiently and subtly teach new players how to use their game. This involves teaching...

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