Welcome to our collaborative blog experiment
Blogs give voice to untold thousands since the free blog software has removed most of the technical barriers to expressing one’s ideas on the web. Many blogs, however, are musings, diary-like, personal, and unstructured.
As thinkers engaged in NLII’s mission to explore how emerging technologies can transform the practice of teaching and learning, we have an obligation to define the tool and collaborate with the tool toward a practical yet visionary end.
One of the new sticking points or locus of controversy about learning objects is the issue of context. If a learning object is excessively granular, that is, for example, a single digital image, it is really simply raw data. It has no inherent capacity to enhance learning. It has no context. Educators involved in the LO movement are now searching/researching ways to add metadata to a LO that will allow it or facilitate its being re-used by having its context deliberately altered or reshaped to suit another learning environment.
So, if…
…context creates meaning: the Learning Object Virtual Community of Practice (LOVCOP) can explore the potential of a team blog to create new meaning and new knowledge in the realm of learning objects and knowledge management, in this case, personal knowledge management.
I believe that if we explore what it feels like to work collaboratively, to quite consciously build knowledge together in a tightly controlled experiment, that we can extrapolate from our experience to determine how we might use this experience to enhance teaching and learning in our institutions and in our personal lives.
As thinkers engaged in NLII’s mission to explore how emerging technologies can transform the practice of teaching and learning, we have an obligation to define the tool and collaborate with the tool toward a practical yet visionary end.
One of the new sticking points or locus of controversy about learning objects is the issue of context. If a learning object is excessively granular, that is, for example, a single digital image, it is really simply raw data. It has no inherent capacity to enhance learning. It has no context. Educators involved in the LO movement are now searching/researching ways to add metadata to a LO that will allow it or facilitate its being re-used by having its context deliberately altered or reshaped to suit another learning environment.
So, if…
…context creates meaning: the Learning Object Virtual Community of Practice (LOVCOP) can explore the potential of a team blog to create new meaning and new knowledge in the realm of learning objects and knowledge management, in this case, personal knowledge management.
I believe that if we explore what it feels like to work collaboratively, to quite consciously build knowledge together in a tightly controlled experiment, that we can extrapolate from our experience to determine how we might use this experience to enhance teaching and learning in our institutions and in our personal lives.
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