Learning and Maturing Knowledge

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2 comments January 5th, 2008

Online Educa Berlin LIVE

Find here the podcasts of Andreas Auwaerter and his Students from the University of Koblenz in Germany.

Later we will introduce them to you.

It features impressions and short Interviews from the ongoing conference.

The audio material is in english and german language.

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8 comments November 30th, 2007

Sounds of the Bazaar 17

Phew - we are at Online Educa Berlin and are struggling with network connectivity. But - as long as it holds up for another ten minutes - here is the first of a series of programmes from the conference.

This edition is a special feature on podcasting. Our interview is with Andreas Auwaerter from the University of Koblenz. Andreas and his student crew are running the Sounds of the Bazaar operations here in Berlin.

And then we go on to three short features on podcasting in education by the presenters of a conference session here on poadcasting.

Web site of the month features - you’ve guessed it two great web sites about podcasting. Longer sleeve notes to follow - first lets get this edition on the air.

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 Bazaar Events - Conference in Dezember [3:16m]: | Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (129)
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Add comment November 30th, 2007

Sounds of the Bazaar 16

It is already time for another edition of Sounds of the Bazaar.

This issue features a round table discussion with Jaan Netzow, from IBM Germany, Gareth Greenwood, IBM UK, and Bert de Coutere, IBM Belgium. All are involved in one way or another with the development, sales and support of software for collaboration - particularly in the workplace. Can IBM applications replace Facebook as a ‘managed social network?’ Should managers have the right to change employees’ personal profiles. All this and more in this round table.

The Sound of the Bazaar interview is with Rebecca Stromeyer. Rebecca has been involved with organising Online Educa Berlin since the start - in 1994. In the interview she tells of the origins of the conference and talks about what she enjoys about it all.

Website of the Month features the European Collaboration for Innovation project. And - this is a little embarassing - just at the moment we don’t have the url for the project to hand. But if you do want the url please visit us again when we have updated this page.

As ever thanks to Dirk Stieglitz - from stray hints in emails I gather that I made a mess of recording this issue and he had a bit of a technical struggle. And thanks to Beate Kleessen from ICWE for help in planning SoB this autumn and to Agnes Breitkopf from IBM for setting up the round table

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1 comment November 23rd, 2007

Sounds of the Bazaar 15

Another great edition of Sounds of the Bazaar - brought to you in conjunction with Online Educa Berlin.

First up is my introduction to the show, where I tell you about the fabulous up coming Bazaar conference.

This is followed by Graham Attwell’s periodic rant. This months rant is about the tyranny of assessment and I look at alternatives based on Assessment for learning as opposed to the assessment of learning. If you enjoy this and would like to hear more you can watch my video on E-learning 2.0 and Quality.
Our interview is with Jay Cross who talks about informal learning. Jay’s web site describes him as a “champion of informal learning, web 2.0, and systems thinking. He puts breakthrough business results ahead of business as usual. His calling is to change the world by helping people improve their performance on the job and satisfaction in life.” In the interview he talks about what he means by informal learning, the difference between training and learning, what organisations can do to promote informal learning and how education systems might change in the future.
Ulf Daniel Ehlers tells us about his idea for Science without Borders. Ulf is an Assistant Professor of Business Information Systems, at the University of Duisberg-Essen in Germany. He is Coordinator of the European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning and coordinator of the European Quality Observatory.

One of his main research interests is education for sustainable development and in this interview he talks about how we can facilitate researchers from different countries working together

Blog site features Ismael Pena Lopez’s brilliant ICTlogy blog. Talking about his blog he says:

• this site serves my purposes of keeping all my knowledge under control
• having all content open, it helps interesting people coming by
• having all content open makes me findable not by myself, by thanks to the content gathered around me
• interesting people leave their tracks behind them, tracks I can explore and find them, their institutions, their resources
• the more you know, and share it, the more these issues repeat along time… and the more you can reach new people to learn more and more.

Claire Belisle talks about her research on information and digital media. Claire Bélisle est ingénieure de recherche CNRS en sciences humaines et sociales. Elle a un doctorat en psychologie cognitive, et un diplôme en formation en ligne. Ces centres d’intérêt en recherche sont la navigation et les méta-compétences des formateurs, enseignants et chercheurs dans l’intégration des technologies de l’information et de la communication en éducation et en recherche. Elle pilote actuellement des travaux sur le livre électronique et sur les corpus numériques, en se focalisant sur la navigation dans les hypermédias, le travail collaboratif et la lecture numérique.

But don’t worry if your French isn’t too good - the interview is in English!

Finally I talk us out of this issue. Phew - that is a lot. I know the full edition is long. But the music is just brilliant. As ever many thanks to Dirk Stieglitz who produced this issue.

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2 comments November 7th, 2007

Sounds of the Bazaar 14

Welcome to the second of our special series of autumn shows. This series is being produced in conjunction with Online Educa Berlin. Each edition we feature some of the themes and speakers form this years Online Educa conference, being held at the end of November in Berlin.

In this show we feature two contributors to Educa. Ruth Rominger is Director of Learning Design at Monterey Institute. Ruth talks to us about the development of Open Educational resources, social authoring, sustainability models and much more.

Steve Wheeler will also be at Online Educa. He is part of a panel looking at the potential of Multi User Virtual Environments, including Second Life, for learning. In the interview Steve talks about the development of a project on sexual health in Second Life.

Web site of the month is “not School, not Home , but Schome.”

We present the second part of our interview with Stephen Downes.

And I talk about the forthcoming Bazaar conference.

The musical mix which holds it all together is the work of Dirk Stieglitz. As a good tradition the music comes again from the great music site Jamendo.com and is published under a Creative Commons licences. In this volume you listen to the band Killing Jazz and their album “2nd Round“.

We hope you will enjoy the show.

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1 comment October 10th, 2007

Sounds of the Bazaar 13

Welcome to the first of the autumn series of Sounds of the Bazaar. We are proud to announce we have teamed up with Online Educa Berlin to bring you this series. In each of the coming issues we will featuring some of the speakers at forthcoming Educa Online Berlin Conference plus our usual mixture of news and features from the educational technology, open source and open content communities. And we will be podcasting live from the conference. But more on that next month.

We’ve got some pretty heavyweight guests lined up for future programmes including Ewan McIntosh, Dave Wiley and Jay Cross. We are also launching a new series - the Bazaar Unplugged - designed to provide space for newbies to the podcasting scene. If you are teaching podcasting or using podcasting in your courses please do get in touch - Bazaar Unplugged is designed as a showcase for learners be they young or old. The first edition of the new series - due out in the next ten days - is being made by Pontydysgu intern, Adrian Puscuta, about computer games, identities learning and more.

But back to this weeks show. After the summer break, we had a lot of materials in the can so we have produced you a double issue. More than an hours listening.

In the first of the Online Educa special editions, Stephen Downes talks about changing ways in which we are using the internet for learning. Vijay Kumar from MIT and Toru Iiyoshi from the Carnegie Foundation discuss how the development of Open Education can improve quality. And Seb Schmoller explains the background to the Association for Learning Technology’s accredited member scheme. And Web site of the month features the UK Jisc Emerge community. Plus, I talk about future plans for Sounds of the Bazaar. And there is our usual musical interludes with a series of new jingles.

Of course one hour may be a bit too long for one session’s listening (although we find it goes well with watching football with the sound turned down). So you can access each episode separately. And next week there will be an enhanced version available from the iTunes store (see this site for more details).

The full version features music by Stepping Back, a blues-rock band from France. The featured tracks are from their album “Stepping Back“.
And like in the last volume you find this album and a lot more music published under Creative Commons licences on the great music site Jamendo.com.
Enjoy!

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3 comments September 19th, 2007

Sounds of the Bazaar 12 - July 2007

One of my long term aims with Sounds of the Bazaar is to develop a community around educational podcasting. To that extent, we have encouraged guest participants in the production of Sounds - not only as interviewees but as presneters and technicians.

In April I was in Salzburg at the 3ed EduMedia Conference forganised by Salzburg Research. This year the conference focused on “Open Educational Practices and Resources for Lifelong Learning“. How does self-directed, lifelong learning benefits from open training materials of the Internet, of open source based learn- and knowledge software and of common good licences?

And it was there that I met up with Andreas Auwarter. Andeas gained by attention right away, wandering around the conference with his recorder and microphone wearing a teeshirt emblazoned with ‘Podcast Crew’. We quickly got talking and decided we would share whatever interviews we undertook. In the eveing we retreated to the bar and got to talk. Andreas studies and teaches at the University of Koblenz-Landau in southern Germany. He is undertaking a dissertation on podcasting, whilst teaching the same subject at the university.

And when I explained the idea of Sound of the Bazaar he was quick to volunteer his services as a guest producer. So here it is.

The first interview in this edition is with Bernie Dodge from San Diego in the USA. Bernie has developed the popular WebQuest aapproach to web based learning?

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by Bernie with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium.

“Since those beginning days”, Bernie says, “tens of thousands of teachers have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the internet while engaging their students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires. The model has spread around the world, with special enthusiasm in Brazil, Spain, China, Australia and Holland.”

The second interview is with Tim Hall, director of the EMRC, University of Limerick.

Tim is a co-founder of the Educational Media Research Centre in Limerick, having working in the University of Limerick for the past 25 years. He has a large amount of research experience in eLearning. In the interview Tim talks about Open Source Software, social software and Open Educational Resources.

But you can’t keep me out of Sounds of the Bazaar. In my monthly feature spot, I talk about the failing ‘industrial model’ of schooling and the growing challenges to that model. I suggest we can not reform the schooling model but instead need to develop new paradigms and approaches to learning.

The full version features music by Trafic de Blues (http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/trafic.de.blues/), a band from France. In their own description they call it “Blues-Funk-Boogie” with a nice horn section and mouth harp.
The featured tracks are from Trafic de Blues’ album “Fin de cavale” (http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/1820/).
And like in the last volume you find this album and a lot more music published under Creative Commons licences on the great music site Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com).
Many thanks to Dirk Stieglitz for the technical work on this issue.

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Add comment July 23rd, 2007

Sounds of the Bazaar 11

 We are a bit late with this edition of Sounds of The Bazaar. But to make up for it we have a jam packed bumper edition.

First off I give an update on the development of Open Educational Resources and what I think the major issues are. This follows from discussions at the Hewlett Foundation conference on OERs in Houston, Texas in March.

Web Site of the Month features Cwmglas Primary School in Wales. It is a great site - make sure you check it out. And there is a visitors book to sign to show the students who is visiting their web site.

Continuing the Open Educational Resources theme we feature a short interview with