Tag Archives: PLE

Social Software in an Academic Context is Hard

Posted on September 19, 2010 by

A couple of things have gotten me musing about social lately. The first was Dave Cormier’s thought-provoking blog post about how PLEs are supposed to disaggregate power, not people. The second was a private conversation with a friend who is … Continue reading →

Posted in Educational Pattern Languages, Openness, Usability and Human Factors | Tagged , , , | 7 Comments

Xplana.com: Is This a PLE?

Posted on August 13, 2010 by

The title of this post is slightly tongue-in-cheek because I have my doubts about whether there is such a thing as PLEs that are distinct from existing software product categories. If there were, then after years of people talking about … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Educational Pattern Languages, Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science, Higher Education, LMOS, Notable Posts, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

IMS Learning Information Services: Enabling Innovation

Posted on September 11, 2008 by

In my previous posts on this topic, I outlined the mundate yet important core use cases that LIS is intended to address. Now I’d like to start looking at some of the sexier possibilities that the spec enables. In recent guest posts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Openness, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments