George Veletsianos’ presentation to Week 33 of Change Mooc   has been very timely for the First Steps in Learning and Teaching Mooc   that I am planning with colleagues  at the moment. George has posted a recording of his presentation to his blog and it is worth listening to. This focused on the question on ‘ what is a scholar ?’ My question. MORE >>

photo credit: avlxyz Once in a while, I run across an article that uses the word “forums” or the term “online community” in a weird, misleading way. What disappoints me most is when someone does this when they are claiming to have expertise in this space – they have community in their job title, they [.]. MORE >>

There have been some great comments by George Veletsianos, Mark McGuire and Fred Garnett on my blog post, which asked the question ‘What is a Scholar’ –  prompted by George’s presentation to ChangeMooc. In George’s comment he asks. This is a very timely question. ccording to Martin Weller it is a ‘state of mind’. agree…. ….but but whose mind? MORE >>

photo credit: in search for a new country of residence Recently, Jason Falls shared an interesting fact with me. According to his research, collected through NetBase, 90% of the trackable conversations occurring online around banks and bank products were in online forums. Ninety percent! 5% related to consumer reviews, 3% on blogs and less than [.]. MORE >>

Huddle released an update to its iPhone app , for working with colleagues and team members through the Huddle collaboration service. New features include: " * Support for offline commenting and document approvals (as well as tasks). Landscape document viewing - just turn your phone when looking at a document and it will go full screen. MORE >>