[WikiEducator] Re: Help! What do you mean by i-learning, please?

2008-08-21 Thread muthumari karuppiah
Like elearning electronic learning this ilearning may refer to internet learning. Even the oracle organisation referring ilearning as learning management... 2008/8/21 vmensah [EMAIL PROTECTED] From reading Nellie's link, this is my thought: iLearning is an eLearning management tool. V.

[WikiEducator] Re: Election Reminders

2008-08-21 Thread Wayne
Hi James, The WikiEducator council is a governance body and technically speaking should not get involved with operations management of WikiEducator. The prime purpose of the council is to ensure good governance -- not technical operations management. So for example, this would entail ensuring

[WikiEducator] Re: Should we turn off LQT

2008-08-21 Thread Wayne
Hi Derek, Leigh, Peter, James, Nellie (hope I haven't missed anyone off the list) I apologise for my silence on the LQT discussion. I'm currently on international mission and my connectivity is intermittent at best. I hear the calls from members on the list to turn LQT off. At the same time I'm

[WikiEducator] Re: The Transnational Qualifications Framework

2008-08-21 Thread Vivek
Dear all, I think that while conducting this activity, we have to bear another factor in mind that this is to be implemented soon. My experience and interaction with education system in India has taught me an important lesson – politics must be handled carefully. Most sincere and well meaning

[WikiEducator] Re: Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California

2008-08-21 Thread U.Debi
Can this happen in India, too? Uttara On Aug 20, 7:52 am, Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost -- and, they say, the dumbing down -- of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts.

[WikiEducator] Re: Help! What do you mean by i-learning, please?

2008-08-21 Thread valerie
Isn't it all just learning - I proposed that in a different forum about eLearning and provoked a response from Stephen Downes. He sees clear differences and insists that the distinction must be made. Me, I'm not so sure... Many of the members of the other group are quite upset at all these

[WikiEducator] Heywire8 Think Tank now on

2008-08-21 Thread Jim Tittsler
The Heywire8 Think Tank is taking place NOW at Otago Polytechnic, in Dunedin, New Zealand. The meeting is discussing a collaborative Open Educational Resource initiative in New Zealand. You can watch/listen to the meeting on Ustream and participate remotely via IRC. More details at:

[WikiEducator] Re: Heywire8 Think Tank now on

2008-08-21 Thread Robert Kruhlak
Hi Jim, Can you give me some more details on the Ustream feed? My search for Heywire8 produced no hits. A search on Otago found Leigh Blackall's feed but it was offline. Cheers Rob On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Jim Tittsler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Heywire8 Think Tank is taking

[WikiEducator] Re: Heywire8 Think Tank now on

2008-08-21 Thread Robert Kruhlak
Thanks On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Jim Tittsler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 15:54, Robert Kruhlak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you give me some more details on the Ustream feed? My search for Heywire8 produced no hits. A search on Otago found Leigh Blackall's feed