http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:38:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Notes from the the Working Session on Open Social Learning, organized by UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning and held in Barcelona, Spain, on June 30th, 2009. More notes on this event: uocunescoosl. Open Social Learning in Spain. Clarifying ConceptsDolors Reig Dolors Reig. Photo by Carlos Albaladejo Traditional e-Learning: everything preset, all paths settled. ... http://ictlogy.net/20090630-working-session-on-open-social-learning-iii-dolors-reig-open-social-learning-in-spain-clarifying-concepts/ Notes from the the Working Session on Open Social Learning, organized by UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning and held in Barcelona, Spain, on June 30th, 2009. More notes on this event: uocunescoosl. Open Social Learning en España: Diagnosis and PerspectiveRubén Díaz Rubén Díaz. Photo by Carlos Albaladejo Expanded education: Search for new ways ... http://ictlogy.net/20090630-working-session-on-open-social-learning-ii-ruben-diaz/ Notes from the the Working Session on Open Social Learning, organized by UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning and held in Barcelona, Spain, on June 30th, 2009. More notes on this event: uocunescoosl. Open Social Learning?Marc Alier Open Learning: We use to define problems so that some structured learning outcomes happen, but problems ... http://ictlogy.net/20090630-working-session-on-open-social-learning-i-marc-alier-open-social-learning/ We finally have the 10 minutes video that summarizes Tim Unwin's talk at UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Fifth International Seminar. One of the most "fighting the digital divide" talks, focused on the development of the underprivileged countries through the use of ICT's, but keeping a very interesting sceptic point ... http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/09062009/tim-unwin-ict4d/ Last month we made a break in the publication of the videos recorded during our Fifth International Seminar, but we had another good video instead: Jack Dorsey talked with us about possible educational uses of the tool Twitter. Now we have some more material to show. It's an honour to ... http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/03062009/tim-unwins-ict4d-conference-teaser/ Critic and writer Howard Rheingold has just coined a very interesting concept. The Twitter Literacy theory ("I refuse to make up a Twittery name for it", says Rheingold) is motivated by the fact that Nielsen recently noted that 60% of new Twitter users fail to return on the following month. ... http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/12052009/twitter-literacy-what-makes-the-tool-valuable/ The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the Educause Association recently reported the results of the Horizon Project, "a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations". The document (PDF, 368KB) ... http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/05052009/horizon-report-2009-conclusions/ Note from the editor: This post is a summary of the paper originally published by Montse Guitart and Teresa Romeu at elearningeuropa.info (download PDF, 222kb). For further information about the authors, please click on the "read more" link at the end of the post.Picture by DavidSilver on Flickr.A brief summary:Universities ... http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/28042009/a-digital-literacy-proposal-in-online-higher-education-the-uoc-scenario/ Jack Dorsey, CEO and founder of Twitter, toured Spain recently for several days. During his visit to Barcelona, we had the chance to share a conversation with him.The idea was to make an open interview, based on the questions sent to us by Twitter users. After writing some questions of ... http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/22042009/open-interview-with-jack-dorsey-is-twitter-useful-for-education/ The UNESCO and the U.S. Library of Congress, in collaboration with another 26 institutions from 19 countries, have launched today the World Digital Library, a content repository that allows users around the world to consult search and browse features in seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.The ... http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/21042009/wellcome-world-digital-library/