Leigh and Peter, I had a chance to review this website, and certainly the marketing piece has a warmth and sex appeal to it.
However, I think there are a significant distinctions worth noting: - It will be quite a long time before most of the developed world has affordable, broadband access - the courses themselves have to be free and open education - which has an added impact on affordability and access - the connection to The Commonwealth of Learning - there are significant 'marketing', outreach and influence advantages associated with this - WikiEd as culture and community - for technical and outreach activities It's great to see innovation in other circles, and like the Tour de France peleton, one day someone leads and the others catch up, and another day, someone else leads. Ecto has a perceived leading edge in the North American market (or it might seem so), but in a remote Pacific country, I don't think so - broadband or no broadband. I gather they are a for-profit concern, so their business model may also preclude offerings that may further the cause of open and accessible education. Certainly, we can learn from them!... as we are. - Randy On 10/8/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Leigh, > > Ecto looks to be a very well thought out LMS / PLE. It certainly has > many of the elements of an e-learning 2.0 environment... In the > context of wikieducator and the main page statement "We're turning the > digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open > networks." I wonder if something like ecto would broaden the divide? I > say this cause I believe wikieducator needs to create low bandwidth > content as the developing world gets access. Once a large % of the > commonwealth countries have broadband... Then (I believe) wikieducator > should morph itself into something more like ecto.. > > My $0.02... > > Peter > > On Oct 7, 3:37 pm, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ecto - another well marketed buz thing that competes with Wikied: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y8nj6jI93s > > Where are we up to with embedding 3rd party media into Wikied? > > > > -- > > -- > > Leigh Blackall > > +64(0)21736539 > > sk > > ype - leigh_blackallhttp://learnonline.wordpress.com > > > > > -- ________________ Randy Fisher + 1 604.684.2275 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hirerandy.com Skype: wikirandy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
