This week I went to the JISC CETIS Conference in Aston as a panelist in the Semantic Structures for e-Learning session. After my bleak interaction with the e-learning community back in ICALT, I was pleasantly surprised to find a really progressive mood. In particular Mark Stiles gave a characteristically candid closing keynote that was uncannily […]
Month: November 2007
Why the Semantic Web hasn’t failed, and how we shouldn’t fix it
(a position statement for the JISC CETIS conference, Aston, UK, held Nov 2007) I’ve been invited to present a position statement at this years JISC CETIS conference on the topic of Semantic Structures for Teaching and Learning. The session aims to explore the potential of Semantic Web technologies in e-learning, and also raises the question […]
The New Web Literacy
I’ve just given a seminar to my research group (The Learning Societies Lab) on the notion of the New Web Literacy, how e-learning systems should change to support it, and what we should be doing as e-learning researchers to enact and understand that change. I have wanted to present something on this topic ever since […]